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Issue: Crack Comics #11 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1941
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Issues: #11 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/31/1941
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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); Jane Arden (inset); Ned Brant (inset)
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Pages: 1
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The Coming of Jasper Crow

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., also as Senator Thomas Wright]; Senator Thomas Wright (introduction, death); Dr. Foster (introduction); Wendy Foster (Wright's daughter, introduction); Senator Jasper Crow (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Returning to the land of his birth, Richard Grey meets Senator Wright who is being bullied by Senator Jaspar Crow to vote for an appropriations bill that would provide kickbacks. When Wright refuses, Crow has him shot by his thugs, and when the Senator dies, Grey assumes the role of the late Senator and votes against the bill.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Richard Grey Jr. assumes the identity of the murdered Senator Wright in this story.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Molly don't want t'see the fight, Nifty
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Pages: 2
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War of the Blondes and Brunettes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Rock Braddon; Space Legion; Commander Crosby; Queen Luxor (villain, introduction); Queen Feros (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 5
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Too Much Water

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Wizard Wells; Tug; Portner [Rentrop] (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 5
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Oh my venetian blind
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Pages: 1
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The Spies on the Junk

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; The Japanese (villains)
Synopsis: While near Holland, the Torpedo intercepts enemy Asian sailors and uses their ship to lead their fellows into a trap in Africa.
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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, 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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
First Line: I caught the first train for Washington, Chief
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Reprint Notes: from Jane Arden Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I dreamt 'bout fish again, Sal.
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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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The Crickets Strike Again

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Baron Karl von Ernst (introduction, death); B-16 (villain, operative of the Crickets); The Big Cricket (villain); the Crickets (villains)
Synopsis: When Baron von Ernst escaped Nazi Germany with his jewels and was killed by a bomb, the Spider uncovered B-16, an operative of the Crickets. B-16 led the Spider to the Big Cricket, and, in the ensuing fight, the Spider never once used an arrow, and was forced to flee the gunmen and battle the Crickets another time.
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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'm sorry but we can't
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Pages: 4
Disclose Notes: strip reprints
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Little Squirt Electric Milker

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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The Drawings of Dwarf Rogan

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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Dwarf Rogan (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 5
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How To Trap a Warden

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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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Pages: 1
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Sabotage!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Tor [Jimmy Slade]; Lucy Stone (Slade's colleague); Schneider Polekat (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous
First Line: C'mere Spot! Somethin' special--
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Pages: 2
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The Case of Piggy Dorn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Pug; Piggy Dorn (villain, introduction); Homer Tweed (introduction)
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Pages: 7

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