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Issue: Crack Comics #9 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1941
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Issues: #9 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/29/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 19 (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, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 1.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Assets2
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Alias the Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); Jane Arden; The Red Torpedo [Captain Jim Lockhart] (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Jackie Boy

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.]; Dr. Patche (introduction); Jackie (introduction, crime victim); Jackie's wife (introduction); Jackie's son (introduction); Monks Gallagher (villain, introduction); Slugs (villain)
Synopsis: The Condor comes upon a man named Jackie who has been stabbed in the chest and attempts to get medical help for him, and he then notifies the man's wife and lame child of what has happened and that he'll be all right. But the Condor wants to track down the attempted murderer, a man named Gallagher, who has stolen this victim's rights to citizenship and who has threatened to expose him.
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In Issue: FlagThe Quality Companion #[nn] published November 2011
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: The reprint titles this story "Jackie Boy". Art credits verified in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Molly the Model
First Line: But Molly- a butcher's errand boy- and at my age!
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Screwball rules of behavior
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: strip reprint
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Blaster Meers and the Pirates of Ceres

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Legion; Rock Braddon; Blaster Meers (first appearance; villain; death)
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Pages: 5
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The Tiger Woman

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Tiger Woman (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Madam Fatal faces his first costumed opponent, The Tiger, who lead a gang of savages retaliating for treasures stolen in her home country. She ends up perishing after going over a stone wall while in conflict with Madam Fatal.
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Pages: 5
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Smashing the Schrecklichkeit

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; Dr. Freiheit (introduction); Adolf Hitler (villain); the Nazis (villains)
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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.

Drew Allen is Kiefer's pen-name used on the strip.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
First Line: Fortune hunting count Ivan takes Jane to the polo matches
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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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: What are you doing, 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 the Jane Arden pages
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The Spider: Framed

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Chuck; Bill French (villain, introduction); Baldy Riker (villain, introduction); Nick (villain, introduction); Trigger (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

In this story, the Black Widow does the Batman's Batmobile one better: it can careen horizontally along the face of a building.
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War Declared

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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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
First Line: Boy! Have I met a girl!
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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The Hijacked Plane Peril

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Lee Preston; Nazi spies (Intro, Die)
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: Last appearance of the Lee Preston of the Red Cross feature.
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Quoth the Raven

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Larry Spain
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1.75
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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Everett M. Arnold
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership
Crack Comics 322 Main St Stamford Ct
Editor: Edward Cronin 322 Main ST Stamford Ct
Bus Mgr: Everett M Arnold 198 Shore Rd Old Greenwich, CT
Owners: Comic Magazines, Inc. Everett M Arnold; Claire C. Arnold;
Fred A. Little 4006 Grand Ave Des Moines, IA;
Henry P Martin Jr. 8 Foster Dr Des Moines, IA
Printed at Cleveland, OH.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Gee this is fun being down here in Florida
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Pages: 1
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T.N.T. Trousers Trap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wizard Wells; Tug; Natas (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Yum-yum! Even Daddy wants more of your good food!
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Pages: 1
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The Screw Gang

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 Screw [David Gratten] (villain, introduction); the Screw Gang (villains, introduction for all)
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Pages: 7

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