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Issue: Crack Comics #7 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #7 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: 10/02/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 18 (17 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Edward Cronin
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, 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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Clock
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Jane Arden (inset); The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.] (inset); Alias the Spider [Thomas Hallaway] (inset); Molly the Model
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Pages: 1
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The Great Yaho

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Kenneth Lewis] (signed)
Penciller(s): Charles Sultan ?
Inker(s): Charles Sultan ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Black Condor
Character(s): The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr.]; George Allison (death); The Great Yaho (villain, introduction, a golem); Chief of the Yaqui Indians (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Condor must battle a giant golem of the Yaqui Indian tribe.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): John Devlin
Penciller(s): John Devlin
Inker(s): John Devlin
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Molly the Model
First Line: Lookit th'size of him, Danny
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ed Reed
Penciller(s): Ed Reed
Inker(s): Ed Reed
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Off the Record
First Line: There! Once Junior hits that bull's eye we'll have no more noise!
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Pages: 1
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The Brain Bandits

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Vernon Henkel
Penciller(s): Vernon Henkel
Inker(s): Vernon Henkel
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: science fiction
Feature(s): Space Legion
Character(s): Space Legion; Rock Braddon; The Brain Master (villain, introduction, death); Gor (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 5
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The Lightning Murders

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Art Pinajian
Penciller(s): Art Pinajian
Inker(s): Art Pinajian
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Madam Fatal
Character(s): Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Fielding Garr; Tom Stanton (Stanton's son); The Electrical Wizard (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Thomas arrives at the home of his friend, Fielding Garr, and is immediately struck down by chemical lightning. His son, Tom, is also kidnapped by the Electrical Wizard. Later, clothed as Madam Fatal, Stanton saves his son from the Wizard's infamous "House of Terror."
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Pages: 5
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The Shark and the Mermazons

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Kiefer ?
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer [as Roy Larkin] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Red Torpedo
Character(s): The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; Queen Klitra (Queen of the Mermazons, introduction); Mermazons (mermaid Amazons, introduction for all); The Black Shark (villain); the King of Caverns (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Lockhart and the Black Shark ally themselves with different underseas peoples. Lockhart is saved by the Mermazons of Merezonia, a tribe of water-breathing women, so that he can chase after the Shark, who has captured the Red Torpedo.
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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.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Bob Zuppke
Penciller(s): Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed)
Inker(s): Walt DePew [as B. W. DePew] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Ned Brant
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Pages: 4
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Bringing Down Rocco Flint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Paul Gustavson
Penciller(s): Paul Gustavson
Inker(s): Paul Gustavson
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Paul Gustavson
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Alias the Spider
Character(s): The Spider [Tom Halloway]; Chuck; The Black Widow (the Spider's car, introduction); Doc Norton; Rocco Flint (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

The Spider unveils his Black Widow automobile in this story. It was an ultra-long bullet of a vehicle fortified against bullets.
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The Volcano Crooks

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Terrence Macauley]
Penciller(s): Nick Cardy
Inker(s): Nick Cardy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Lee Preston of the Red Cross
Character(s): Lee Preston; Dr. Grayson (introduction)
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Pages: 4
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Little Nooralgia

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Gill Fox
Penciller(s): Gill Fox
Inker(s): Gill Fox
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Slap Happy Pappy
Character(s): Nooralgia (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Monte Barrett
Penciller(s): Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Inker(s): Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: romantic
Feature(s): Jane Arden
First Line: Fortune hunter Count Ivan thinks Jane Arden is the rich Grace Kenning
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Pages: 2
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Monte Barret
Penciller(s): Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Inker(s): Russell Ross [as Russell E. Ross]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Lena Pry
First Line: Hurry, Lena - we'll be late t' the meetin'!
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Reprint Notes: from Lena Pry Sundays (Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Beast of Burma

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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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Rube Goldberg
Penciller(s): Rube Goldberg
Inker(s): Rube Goldberg
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Rube Goldberg's Side Show
First Line: Baloney Rules for Dining
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Pages: 1
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Ray of Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Harry Francis Campbell
Penciller(s): Henry Weston Taylor ?
Inker(s): Henry Weston Taylor ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Wizard Wells
Character(s): Wizard Wells; Tug; Mary Perry; Astro (villain, introduction, death)
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Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: Panel layouts, which have been very repetitive so far, change in this story. Art may be by Henry Weston Taylor who is credited by Jerry Bails with working on this strip.
The chant "Om Mani Padme Hum" appears in this story
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arthur Beeman (signed)
Penciller(s): Arthur Beeman (signed)
Inker(s): Arthur Beeman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Snappy
First Line: After 'em men! Mow 'em down-
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Pages: 2
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Robbers From Hades

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Penciller(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Inker(s): George Brenner [as George E. Brenner] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): The Clock
Character(s): The Clock [Brian O'brien]; Pat "Pug" Brady; The "Devil" (villain, introduction, death); the Robbers From Hades (villains, introduction for all, all die)
Synopsis: The Devil's "Robbers From Hades" inject their victims with a treatment that generates unbearable heat, and even kidnaps O'Brien. However, Pug rescues him and helps him synthesize an antidote and narrowly escape death.
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Pages: 7

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