| Issue | #45 |
| Published | December 1954-January 1955 |
| 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 |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999) |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A man and a rat from a ship wreck wash up on an island and eye each other warily as the only food source available. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Jack Davis |
| Inks | Jack Davis |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999) |
| Characters | The Vault-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A man assumes that the body of the governor of the penal colony he is a prisoner in will be sent back to Paris, so he kills him with a poisoned dart from a blowgun and makes plans to switch places with his body in the casket. They nail him in and bury him at sea. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Jack Kamen |
| Inks | Jack Kamen |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999) |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | The Crypt-Keeper (host) |
| Synopsis | A maniac ax-murderer assumes his victim's identity in his dreams until he is compelled to return to the scene of the crime to murder the victim's wife as well. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Bernard Krigstein |
| Inks | Bernard Krigstein |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999); in B. Krigstein Comics (Fantagraphics, 2004 series) #nn |
| Characters | The Old Witch (host) |
| Synopsis | An old millionaire falls in love with a young woman but he doesn't want her to marry him for his money so he tells her he's poor. She puts him off telling him his face is too old-looking so he gets a doctor to do an expensive face transplant with a younger man. She is amazed that he now looks young but puts him off again by saying he still has an old man's body. He gives more of his fortune to the young man and the doctor to transfer torsos. She still isn't satisfied because of his legs. He spends the last of his fortune to swap out his legs and she marries the man he has swapped body parts with because she only wanted to marry a millionaire. |
| Genre | Horror |
| Script | Carl Wessler |
| Pencils | Graham Ingels |
| Inks | Graham Ingels |
| Reprinted | in Tales From The Crypt (Gemstone, 1994 series) #29 (September 1999) |