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Issue: Crack Comics #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1940
 
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/02/1940
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: The on-sale date is from 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
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock
The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Jane Arden (inset); The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); Alias the Spider [Thomas Hallaway] (inset); Molly the Model
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Miscellaneous
1
The Great Yaho

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
Charles Sultan ?
Charles Sultan ?
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Condor
The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; George Allison (death); The Great Yaho (villain, introduction, a golem); Chief of the Yaqui Indians (villain, introduction)
The Condor must battle a giant golem of the Yaqui Indian tribe.
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Miscellaneous
9
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Devlin
John Devlin
John Devlin
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Molly the Model
Lookit th'size of him, Danny
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Reed
Ed Reed
Ed Reed
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Off the Record
There! Once Junior hits that bull's eye we'll have no more noise!
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Miscellaneous
1
The Brain Bandits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Space Legion
Space Legion; Rock Braddon; The Brain Master (villain, introduction, death); Gor (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
5
The Lightning Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Art Pinajian
Art Pinajian
Art Pinajian
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Madam Fatal
Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Fielding Garr; Tom Stanton (Stanton's son); The Electrical Wizard (villain, introduction, death)
Thomas arrives at the home of his friend, Fielding Garr, and is immediately struck down by chemical lightning. His son, Tom, is also kidnapped by the Electrical Wizard. Later, clothed as Madam Fatal, Stanton saves his son from the Wizard's infamous "House of Terror."
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Miscellaneous
5
The Shark and the Mermazons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Henry Kiefer ?
Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Red Torpedo
The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; Queen Klitra (Queen of the Mermazons, introduction); Mermazons (mermaid Amazons, introduction for all); The Black Shark (villain); the King of Caverns (villain, introduction)
Lockhart and the Black Shark ally themselves with different underseas peoples. Lockhart is saved by the Mermazons of Merezonia, a tribe of water-breathing women, so that he can chase after the Shark, who has captured the Red Torpedo.
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Miscellaneous
5
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.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Zuppke
Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed)
Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
Ned Brant
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Miscellaneous
4
strip reprints
Bringing Down Rocco Flint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
Paul Gustavson
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
Alias the Spider
The Spider [Tom Halloway]; Chuck; The Black Widow (the Spider's car, introduction); Doc Norton; Rocco Flint (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
6
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

The Spider unveils his Black Widow automobile in this story. It was an ultra-long bullet of a vehicle fortified against bullets.
The Volcano Crooks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? [as Terrence Macauley]
Nick Cardy
Nick Cardy
?
?
Subject Matter
Lee Preston of the Red Cross
Lee Preston; Dr. Grayson (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
4
Little Nooralgia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Slap Happy Pappy
Nooralgia (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Monte Barrett
Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
Jane Arden
Fortune hunter Count Ivan thinks Jane Arden is the rich Grace Kenning
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from Jane Arden Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
2
strip reprints
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Monte Barret
Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Lena Pry
Hurry, Lena - we'll be late t' the meetin'!
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from Lena Pry Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
2
bottom half of the Jane Arden pages.
The Beast of Burma

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Spain
?
?
?
typeset
Subject Matter
Eric Vale
Eric Vale
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Miscellaneous
2
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Rube Goldberg's Side Show
Baloney Rules for Dining
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Miscellaneous
1
strip reprints
Ray of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Francis Campbell
Henry Weston Taylor ?
Henry Weston Taylor ?
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Wizard Wells
Wizard Wells; Tug; Mary Perry; Astro (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
5
Panel layouts, which have been very repetitive so far, change in this story. Art may be by Henry Weston Taylor who is credited by Jerry Bails with working on this strip.
The chant "Om Mani Padme Hum" appears in this story
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Arthur Beeman (signed)
Arthur Beeman (signed)
Arthur Beeman
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Snappy
After 'em men! Mow 'em down-
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Miscellaneous
2
Robbers From Hades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock
The Clock [Brian O'brien]; Pat "Pug" Brady; The "Devil" (villain, introduction, death); the Robbers From Hades (villains, introduction for all, all die)
The Devil's "Robbers From Hades" inject their victims with a treatment that generates unbearable heat, and even kidnaps O'Brien. However, Pug rescues him and helps him synthesize an antidote and narrowly escape death.
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Miscellaneous
7

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