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Issue: Crack Comics #12 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1941
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Issues: #12 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: 02/28/1941
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (17 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Volume 36, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 493111. Volume number also reported to Copyright Office but not in the actual comic book itself.
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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
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
First Line: Another exciting adventure of the Black Condor
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Pages: 1
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Bill; Slim
First Line: Hurry boys, get yours!
Synopsis: Slim shows Bill his Hollywood Album that he got when he got a Schwinn bicycle.
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Pages: 1
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Jaspar Crow and the Miners

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Wendy Foster; Senator Jaspar Crow (villain); Looie; Norton; Stan; Jim; Dr. Foster
First Line: The mines of Black Rock in the coal-rich hills of Pennsylvania are being worked night and day....
Synopsis: Jaspar Crow works to keep mine workers down.
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Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Art credits from Jim Amash in The Quality Companion (TwoMorrows, 2011 series) #1 (November, 2011), page 93.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Mr. Maloney; Mr. Grubnick
First Line: Molly is getting very difficult
Synopsis: Molly refuses to lend her father any more money.
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Pages: 2
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Captured by Captain X

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Captain X (villain, introduction)
First Line: With engine pounding and rocket tubes flaring, the Space Legion's newest ship blasts off for a test flight..
Synopsis: Captain X steals the Space Legion's new ship, the fastest ship around.
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Pages: 5
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Out of Thin Air

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Tug; Karl (villain, introduction, death); other fifth columnists (villains, introductions, deaths)
Synopsis: Wizard Wells is captured by the Double Cross, a group planning to conquer New York.
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Wilbur; Butch Gogley; Joe Burps; Joe
First Line: One for the money, two for the show!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Six one-panel cartoons.
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Doom in the Lagoon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Mongolese (villains, introduction for all)
First Line: It's their captain!
Synopsis: The Red Torpedo rests on an island that turns out to be a refueling station for the Mongols.
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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)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: drama, romantic
Character(s): Jane Arden; Jessel; Eric
First Line: Jane has felled the intruder who overpowered Eric
Synopsis: Jane plans a trap for the spies.
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Reprint Notes: from Jane Arden Sunday (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 3
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Lena Pry; Lem; Dan'l
First Line: Yo' is spendin' yo' money too fast, Lena!
Synopsis: Lena believes that dreaming of fish will bring her money.
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Reprint Notes: from Lena Pry Sunday (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Lena Pry is the Sunday footer (topper) comic strip to the Jane Arden comic strip.
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Crushing the Crickets

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Cricket (villain, death?); the Crickets [Slick; Lefty; Nick] (villains); Hank
First Line: Trapped by the notorious Cricket in a hideout on the fifth floor of a hotel, the Spider avoids his doom by jumping out of the window, as guns blast away at him...
Synopsis: The Spider works to stop the Cricket and his Crickets.
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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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Ned Brant; Bud Shekels; Jake; Gail; Runkel; Dean Smith
First Line: I guess that will hold Jake for quite some time
Synopsis: Ned and Bud play a prank on Jake.
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Reprint Notes: from Ned Brant Sunday (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 4
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Snappy Jones; Spot; Herb
First Line: Hey what's that noise downstairs?
Synopsis: Snappy catches a burglar.
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Pages: 1
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The Counterfeit Plot of Phrogg Zaarn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lucy Stone; Phrogg Zaarn (villain, introduction); Zenzo Shimizu
First Line: Wow! That was close-
Synopsis: Tor discovers a plot to ruin the country with counterfeit money.
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Pages: 5
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While Rome Burns

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Eric Vale
Character(s): Eric Vale; Jan Blenheim [Buehl]; Brian Marlow; Pat; Adams; Blivens
Synopsis: An actor is believed to have killed his director.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Little Butch; Percy McSneezed; Wickersham Whittletree; Bradshaw
First Line: Hey, get off there.. You're no ornament!
Synopsis: Bradshaw's dad tries to talk to him.
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Reprint Notes: from Rube Goldberg's Side Show Sunday (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 19XX-XX-XX - 19XX-XX-XX
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Pages: 1
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The Blue Cloak Gang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Cloak Gang (villains, introduction); Dan Rogers (introduction, a stage magician); Jimmie Rogers; Slug; Mike
First Line: It is midnight as a lone figure walks down the street..........
Synopsis: Crooks are killing people by throwing a blue cloak over them.
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Pages: 5
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That Soaring Norwegian

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: sports
Character(s): Charley Hoff
Synopsis: About Charley Hoff's pole vaulting record.
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Talent Scout for Sap

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Pardon, but is this your land?
Synopsis: A man offers to buy Pappy's land for the sap trees.
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The Murder of Hy Jakker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Big Boy Broge (villain, introduction); Hy Jakker (villain, introduction, death); Captain Kane; Butch
First Line: Our story begins two weeks ago, when two rival gang leaders, Bad Boy Broge and Hy Jakker, meet accidentally-
Synopsis: The Clock figures out a way to get Big Boy Broge to confess to killing Hy Jakker.
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Pages: 7
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Watch for the summer edition of Uncle Sam
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The Tootsie Roll of Honor

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Miss Clark; Bill Clark; Tommy; Patsie
Synopsis: Bill saves his sister.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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