| Issue | #44 |
| Published | October-November 1954 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 36 |
| Editing | William M. Gaines |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset) |
| Genre | Horror |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Colors | ? |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A sea captain murders a man for his wife by having him row out to a plague island where he contracts the disease. When he is rotting away they toss him overboard, but a whale swallows him and then vomits him up. The captain knows the spew is valuable for perfume so he collects it and presents it to the murdered man's wife where she dons it in the bathroom and opens the door to reveal her instantaneously rotting flesh. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A man kills an old man for 30 thirty gold coins and thinks that there must be more to the treasure when he finds a treasure map locating a spot just offshore under water. The old man claimed he had been 'prepared' for him and when he visits the location marked underwater he realizes the old man was right as it is a grave marker with his name on it that falls over on his diving suit keeping him pinned until he drowns. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Reed Crandall |
| Inks | Reed Crandall |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A woman who uses men to stay surrounded by the finer things in life finally hears what she wants to hear "I want you for my wife." In this case, her intended sucker literally wants her for a meal to his undead blood-sucker wife. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Jack Kamen |
| Inks | Jack Kamen |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | An executioner during the Terror who takes money from a relative in order to guillotine his brother finds he has a difficult time in getting rid of the head. Eventually he becomes frustrated with his efforts to dispose of the ever-returning head and picks up a cleaver and minces it. That evening, he receives a visit from the corpse who wants its head back, and finding that not possible, rips the head from the executioner's shoulders to use in its place. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #28 (June 1999) |