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Issue: Crack Comics #16 Public Domain
Publication Date: September 1941
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Issues: #16 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: 07/10/1941
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. 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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Colorist(s): ?
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jane Arden (inset)
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Pages: 1
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The Ghost-Gun Killer

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jasper Crow (villain); the Ghost-Gun Killer (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 9
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Aw Nifty-I'm tired
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The Red Torpedo vs. the Black Shark

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Black Shark (villain)
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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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The Sabotaged Submarine

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 5
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The Tobacco Juice Spitter

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Genres: humorous
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The Outlaws of Jupiter

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Genres: science fiction
Character(s): Blackbeard (first appearance; villain); One-Arm Ganz (first appearance; villain); Patch-Eye Tork (first appearance; villain); Half-Face McGurk (first appearance; villain); a girl (first appearance; villain)
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Genres: drama, romantic
First Line: To signal a passing Coast Guard cutter, Jane and Jim Porter set fire to a mattress
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Reprint Notes: from Jane Arden Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Pages: 3
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Since Dan'l wooed yo' we gotta make 'im marry yo'!
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Reprint Notes: from Lena Pry Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
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Death at Rustling Willow

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Jean Horton (introduction); Sutton (villain, introduction); Pierre (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

The Spider's secret identity was obscured until this story, when he was officially named Tom Hallaway.
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Genres: sports
First Line: We really should be practicing thoses new song hits, Bud
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Pages: 4
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The Phony Radio Beam

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Genres: aviation
Character(s): Chuck Bolton (first appearance); Captain Schloss (first appearance; villain; death)
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Lake of Missing Men

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Eric Vale
Character(s): Eric Vale
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Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
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The Five Bloodstones of Mu

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Basil (first appearance; villain; death)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Hey Freddie wait a minute!
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
First Line: A popular debbie named Sarah Van Beezon was engaged to Jay Thorndyke, the catch of the season
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: strip reprint
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The Revenge of Bat Nillon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: mystery, superhero
Character(s): Bat Nillon (first appearance; villain)
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Pages: 7

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