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Issue: Crack Comics #10 Public Domain
Publication Date: February 1941
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Issues: #10 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/27/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Ed 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
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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); Molly the Model (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart] (inset)
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Pages: 1
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Sophisticated Lady

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.]; Sophisticated Lady [Marta Cowen] (villain, introduction); Nickolas Gido (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: MM--Maybe instead of phoning Molly for that buck she said she'd gimme, I'd better go over to the studio an' see her!
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Pages: 2
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Draco's Mechanical Invasion Fleet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Space Legion; Ray Crosby; Rock Braddon; Draco (villain, introduction, death); Elaine Wadsworth
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Super Power Slip-Up

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wizard Wells; Jared Mota (villain, introduction); Smythe; Tug
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Pages: 5
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Let's Go Huntin'!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Captured by the Black Shark

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; Black Shark (villain); Maj.-Gen. Von Rubitch (villain, introduction, death); the Nazis (villains)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who suggests, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion that Kiefer created the Red Torpedo and was the artist throught the strip's 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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
First Line: Count Ivan Gregorio is trying hard to marry Jane Arden
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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: We might straws t'see who marries up wif' Lena!
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Reprint Notes: from Lena Pry Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: bottom half of Jane Arden pages
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The Mysterious Falcon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spider [Tom Halloway]; The Captain (villain, introduction)
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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: sports
First Line: I've got to earn some money if I expect to stay in school Bud
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Look we've churned up butter again
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Pages: 1
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Amazonia's Fifth Column

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tor [Jimmy Slade] (press photographer, introduction); Maria De S (villain, introduction); un-named Axis spies (villains, introduction for all, all die)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Tor was created by Fred Guardineer. He has the powers of mind control, illusions, telekinesis and transfiguration. His costume consisted of a fake mustache and a cape over whatever clothes he was already wearing.
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Television Turnabout

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
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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: Dopey Behavior Department
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: strip reprint
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Madam Fatal Meets the Jester

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; The Jester [Robert Mason] (introduction); Prof. Mason (introduction, Jester's father); Ratney (villain, introduction); Paxton (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Jester in this story is not the same character that had his own strip in Smash Comics.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I'm bored
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Pages: 2
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The False Clock

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Scat Bison (villain, introduction, impersonates the Clock); Pug Brady
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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