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Issue: Crack Comics #2 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1940
 
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/01/1940
Volume: 1
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (15 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Edward Cronin
Disclose Notes: On sale date from the publication date and the volume number found at the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, New Series, Volume 35, 1940, Number 2. Class B periodical. Copyright number B 460355. Volume number not listed in the comic's indicia.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Condor
The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr., aka Sen. Tom Wright]; Jane Arden (inset); The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); The Red Torpedo [Captain Jim Lockhart] (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset)
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FlagContinuum #5 published June 2008
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
Miscellaneous
1
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
mystery
The Clock
The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; The Orchid; Harvey Gibbs (villain, introduction); Nick (villain, introduction); other un-named gangsters (villains, introduction for all)
Known to the police and underworld as only the much feared "Clock," Brian O'Brien, polished young society man, now lounges...
Obviously knowing his double identity, the mysterious Orchid sends notes to Brian, who acknowleges having met her twice before.
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Miscellaneous
7
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
John Devlin
John Devlin
John Devlin
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Molly the Model
Molly; Nifty; Danny; Gloria Glamour
Ah there y'are-H'lo kids!
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Miscellaneous
4
New Way to Get a Seat

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Rube Goldberg's Side Show
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Miscellaneous
1
strip reprints
The Blastproof Battleship

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Henry Kiefer ?
Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Red Torpedo
The Red Torpedo [Captain Jim Lockhart]; Adolf Hitler (villain); Herman Göring (villain); Josef Goebbels (villain); the Nazis (villains)
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Miscellaneous
5
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.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Zuppke
B. W. DePew
B. W. DePew
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
Ned Brant
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Miscellaneous
4
strip reprints
Mission to Chenfu

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Powell [as Terence McCauley]
Bob Powell
Bob Powell
?
?
Subject Matter
Lee Preston of the Red Cross
Lee Preston; Ken Davis (introduction); Chinese renegades (villains)
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Miscellaneous
4
[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Ed Reed
Ed Reed
Ed Reed
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Off the Record
I'll pounce on that vanilla.
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Miscellaneous
1
The Villain from Venus

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
Vernon Henkel
?
?
Subject Matter
science fiction
Space Legion
Space Legion; Rock Braddon; Jafek (villain, introduction, death); Prof. Wadsworth (introduction); Elaine Wadsworth (introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Slap Happy Pappy
Git a move on!- yo' ornery critter!
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Miscellaneous
2
Patterson's Plot

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
Paul Gustavson (signed)
?
Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
superhero
Alias the Spider
The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Patterson (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
4
All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Monte Barrett
Russell E. Ross
Russell E. Ross
?
?
Subject Matter
romantic
Jane Arden
An army captain carrying valuable plans was slain on Jane's train.
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Miscellaneous
4
strip reprints
[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Monte Barrett
Russell E. Ross
Russell E. Ross
?
?
Subject Matter
humorous
Lena Pry
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Miscellaneous
4
Runs on the bottom half of each Jane Arden page.
About that fourth inning in Philadelphia in 1925.

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Bob Zupke?
B. W. DePew
B. W. DePew
?
?
Subject Matter
sports
They're Still Talking
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Professor Discovers New Destructive Chemical

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Art Pinajian
Art Pinajian (signed)
Art Pinajian
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Madam Fatal
Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Prof. Lane (introduction); Sgt. O'Malley (introduction); A spy (villain, introduction)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
5
Doom Syndicate

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Spain
typeset
Subject Matter
Eric Vale
Eric Vale (first appearance)
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Miscellaneous
2
Jean Hersholt

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
Gill Fox
?
?
Subject Matter
biography
Screen Snapshots
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
The House of Fear

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Harry Francis Campbell (signed)
Harry Francis Campbell (signed)
Harry Francis Campbell (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
adventure
Wizard Wells
Wizard Wells; Black Morda (villain)
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
7
The Adventure of Ali Kan

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Will Eisner [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
Lou Fine
Lou Fine
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
The Black Condor
The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr., aka Sen. Tom Wright]; Andrea Kent (introduction); Denny Kent (introduction); Ada (introduction); Ali Kan (villain, introduction)
The Condor defends a British brother and sister from the clutches of Ali Kan while brandishing a new weapon: a paralyzing black ray gun.
Reprinting
FlagCollection Fantôme #[24] published September 1945
as L'homme volant [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagContinuum #5 published June 2008
as The Adventure of Ali Kan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagContinuum #6bis published October 2008
as The Adventure of Ali Kan [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
7
Richard Grey Jr. eventually assumes the identity of Senator Thomas Wright.
I Swam for My Life and Won!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Robert Spiers Benjamin
Hake (signed)
Hake (signed)
?
?
Subject Matter
Royal Portable typewriters
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1

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