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Tales from the Crypt #45 (1954) · The Collector

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EC
Tales from the Crypt (1950)
#45

EC#45

Tales from the Crypt

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Tales from the Crypt #45

Publisher: EC
Cover date: December 1954
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36

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Printing not stated · $0.10
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Stories

4 titled

1Telescope
2The Substitute
3Murder Dream

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Grand Comics Database issue 11732

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A man and a rat from a shipwreck wash up on an island and eye each other warily as the only food source available. The starving rat ultimately eats a bird who was eating a fish, while the starving man eats the rat but gets eaten by a shark.

4The Switch

Credits

Writer: Carl Wessler
Pencillers: Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein, Graham Ingels
Inkers: Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Bernie Krigstein, Graham Ingels
Colorist: Marie Severin
Letterer: Jim Wroten
Cover: Jack Davis

Editorial and production

Editor: Al Feldstein
Managing editor: Bill Gaines

Characters

Carlton Webster
Cathy Leighton
Claude Grymes
Dr. Faulkner
Dr. Hurley
Eric Walford
Fulton
George Booth
Howard Leighton
Linda Stewart Booth
The Crypt-Keeper
The Old Witch
The Vault-Keeper

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