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Issue: Crack Comics #21 Public Domain
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Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/17/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (16 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 1.

Fox is credited in the indicia, Cronin is credited in the statement of ownership.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Jane Arden (inset); Ned Brant (inset); Molly the Model [Molly Maloney] (inset); Tor [James Slade] (inset); Don Q (inset)
Starring the Black Condor
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Miscellaneous
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Be sure your Christmas bike has this Coaster brake!
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Spy Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
superhero
Kalten Winch; Dr. Foster; Wendy Foster; Jaspar Crow (villain); Karle Kurt (villain)
Mr. and Mrs. United States, tune in on station ABC... Kalten Winch is on the air... exclusive flash!! The senate proposes to appropriate $6,000,000,000 more for defense!!
The Condor discovers that Jaspar Crow has bugged the Senate and Senator Wright is implicated in leaking secret information. But Wendy steps in to help on this case by using her wiles on Wright's rival, and a Nazi spy, Karle Kurt.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
aviation
Chuck
Early dawn at the Eagle Squadron's field somewhere in England----
Tex has to find where the Germans have placed new anti-aircraft guns.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure
Hack O'Hara; John Alexis; McCarthy; Lefty
Driving a taxi in the big town means long hours and often small pay, but to adventure-loving Hack O'Hara his midnight shift means a chance to run into thrills and unlooked for excitement...
Hack is hunted for killing a diamond merchant.
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Meet Butch

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
mystery, superhero
Butch (introduction, a tough-girl sidekick); The Mouse (villain); Trig
Having trailed the dope smuggling mob of 'Cokey' Coen to their waterfront hide-out, The Clock is busily engaged in a one sided battle---
On the waterfront, The Clock is riddled with bullets by The Mouse, but is nursed back to health by an orphan girl who first thinks him to be a gangster and fantasized about becoming his moll, then becomes his sidekick after the Clock saves her life from gangsters.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
drama, romantic
Jane Arden; Rettor; Velk; Lena Pry; Dandy Jim; Bill; Hector Malby
Jane has a gun on the thief of the bombsight...
Jane outwits some spies with a stolen bombsight.
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from Jane Arden Sundays (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 194X-XX-XX - 194X-XX-XX;
from Lena Pry Sundays (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 194X-XX-XX - 194X-XX-XX [topper to Jane Arden comic strip]
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Comic strip reprints, half the page are Jane Arden, a quarter is Lena Pry and a quarter is a paper doll cut-out.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Molly The Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Murphy
I'm going fishing, Molly - Don't buy anything for supper
Pop and his fishing pal blunder into an area being used by the U.S. Navy for target practice.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Molly The Model [Molly Maloney]; Nifty; Danny
You mean t'say that big baboon has Danny scared?
Molly helps her boyfriend Danny win a prizefight.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
espionage
Don Q [Don]; Little Pierre; Olga Petroff; Petroff
Vastipole Square is deserted...
In Vastipole, working with the Vastavian Replublican Army, Don Q meets Olga Petroff while trying to avert a civil war.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Pappy; Amnesia Jones
Hyar comes Amnesia Jones - thuh most fergetful critter afoot!
Pappy sends Amnesia to get him a plug of tobacco.
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The Bombing

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
occult, superhero
Tor [Jim Slade]; The Nazis (villains, many die)
Gee! That was a big one!
Tor begins traveling the world, transforming himself and others in all sorts of ways. In war-torn London, he rode a bomb in midair to personally destroy Nazi planes.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Alice Von Pepp; Bertha De Foam; Bradshaw
Alice von Pepp loved the fun and the lights, so she married a fellow who ran around nights..
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from Rube Goldberg's Side Show (Register and Tribune Syndicate) 194x-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
1
Comic strip reprint.
The Basket

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Scrappy Nelson; Tubby White; Pop Hudson; Roxi (villain); Mike; Ryan; Hudson
Wuxtree! Read all about it! Defense plans stolen - F.B.I. scour city......
Fatal and his two teen age sidekicks rescue defense plans from a spy ring. In the process, Fatal is shot and undergoes emergency surgery. The operation is successful, but the doctor in charge is very careful not to reveal Madam Fatal's true identity to Tubby and Scrapper.
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Miscellaneous
5
Biggest Thrill

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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typeset
Subject Matter
adventure
Eric Vale
Eric Vale; Kev; Mr. Gregory; Mrs. Vale
Eric tells a reporter about his biggest thrill.
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Statement of Ownership

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Statement of Ownership: Comic Magazines Inc. 322 Main St Stamford, CT. Edward Cronin, editor. Managing Editor Everett M. Arnold. Owners: Claire C. Arnold, Everett M. Arnold, Henry P. Martin Jr.

Appears at bottom of the first page of the text story.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
sports
Ned Brant; Jake; Wolf; Jammer Steel; Bud
That other guy's a veteran and smart!
Ned fights the boxer from Calumet.
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from Ned Brandt (Register and Tribune) 194x-xx-xx - 194x-xx-xx
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4
Comic strip reprints.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, humorous
Snappy; Spot (dog)
I've never seen such a thing in my life!
Snappy has an idea to win the winter carnival sports parade.
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The Crow Escapes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Subject Matter
superhero
Chuck; The Crow (villain)
Chuck, Tom Hallaway's faithful servant rushes into the young millionaire's home.....
The Crow escapes from the death house and The Spider goes after him, but the Crow ends up stealing the Spider's car, the Black Widow, giving him an added incentive to track him down.
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All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Your Christmas Daisy ready look 'em over now!
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Miscellaneous
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Tom Had the Merriest Christmas Ever!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Tom
Tom sends away for a movie cyclorama to convince his dad to get him a Schwinn bicycle.
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