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Issue Details

Issue #41
Published April-May 1954
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing William M. Gaines

Cover Details

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (inset); The Old Witch (inset); The Vault-Keeper (inset)
Genre Horror
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (September 1998)

8 page The Crypt of Terror story "Operation Friendship"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A mad surgeon cuts out 75% of his married friend's brain so that he can maintain it in a vat and enjoy the mental stimulation of his company while his dumb wife gets the remaining 25% of his brain and his body and never notices the difference.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Davis
Inks Jack Davis
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (September 1998)

7 page The Vault of Horror! story "Come Back, Little Linda"

Characters The Vault-Keeper (host)
Synopsis In order to save money, the management of an insane asylum moves the patients into dungeon cells that the hospital was built on. When an inspection notice from the state board arrives, the doctor panics and orders that all the patients return to their wards. Their scheme is undone when one old crazy man refuses to be bullied into silence, crying out to the inspectors that they've taken his beloved 'Linda' away from him. When they follow his headlong dash downstairs, they find that 'Linda' is a rather large dungeon rat.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils George Evans
Inks George Evans
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (September 1998)

1 page text story "Air-Tight"

Letters typeset

6 page story "Current Attraction"

Characters The Crypt-Keeper (host)
Synopsis A circus father attempts to get the knife thrower out of his daughter's life by placing a bar magnet behind the board the knife thrower's wife stands in front of while he does his act, but the daughter convinces the wife to leave him and she takes her place in the act.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Jack Kamen
Inks Jack Kamen
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (September 1998)

7 page The Witch's Cauldron! story "Mess Call"

Characters The Old Witch (host)
Synopsis A German soldier addled by his experiences in the trenches of WWI is recruited by a butcher in the following war to dispose of patrons in the cellar so that he has plenty of meat to sell.
Genre Horror
Script Al Feldstein
Pencils Graham Ingels
Inks Graham Ingels
Reprinted in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #25 (September 1998)