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Issue: Crack Comics #6 Public Domain
Publication Date: October 1940
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Issues: #6 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/30/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (17 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Edward Cronin
Disclose Notes: On sale date given in Crack Comics #5. The on-sale date from Crack Comics #5 matches the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); Jane Arden (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); Ned Brant (inset)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Kite-Men

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; The Kite-Men (villains, introduction, most die), the Master (villain, introduction); Karlo Klug (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor must battle the strange Karlo Klug, who, at the direction of his midget master, launches an army of "human kites".
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Lou Fine Comics Treasury #[nn] published January 1991
as The Kite-Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #51 published January 2005
as The Kite-Men [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Pop- get up- it's eight o'clock-You've had 12 hours sleep
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Green Men of Hemades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Legion; Rock Braddon; Green Men of Hemades (villains, Intro, Die); Valjar (intro)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: Twenty seven- thirty six, fifty-
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Attack of the U7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; The Black Shark (villain); the Nazis (villains)
Synopsis: Lockart follows the Black Shark into uncharted depths and ends up battling a giant sea creature while each side allies themselves with different underseas peoples.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer, not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. Kiefer is also usually considered to have written it.

The Black Shark was originally called the Lone Shark in the previous issue.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
First Line: Imagine finding a guy like that in this Indian village, Bud!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Adventure of the Blind Soldier

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lee Preston
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 4
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The Phony Haunted House

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spider [Tom Halloway]; Weasel Nolan (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
First Line: Now- Can I go?
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Reprint Notes: from Jane Arden Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Gee - ain't the moon lovely tonight, Dan'l?
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Reprint Notes: from Lena Pry Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: bottom half of Jane Arden pages.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: What not to do in polite society
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: strip reprint
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Dead Man's Prints

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wizard Wells; Tug; Watkins (Intro, villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Crime On Ice

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Larry Spain
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Eric Vale
Character(s): Eric Vale
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Second Madam Fatal

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Hurry Spike, the cops get sore if ya park too long!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Rainmaker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Paralyzer Gun

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Pat "Pug" Brady; The Skull Gang (villains, introduction for all)
Synopsis: The Clock and Pug come face to face with a weird, masked gang who call themselves the Skull Gang.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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