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Issue: Crack Comics #59 Public Domain
Publication Date: March 1949
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Issues: #59 of 62 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines
On Sale Date: 1949
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 16 (10 stories, 1 cover)
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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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A Cargo of Mystery!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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First Line: Have fun! Get laughs.. amaze friends
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A Cargo of Mystery!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Capt. Ruby Conn (first appearance; villain); Kim Meredith; Biff Banks; Pete; Spike; John; Grace; Gregg
Synopsis: Lance, Kim, and Biff take a ferry that has car-stealing pirates on board.
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Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Title from cover.

We formerly credited the inks to Reed Crandall, but that attribution denied by Crandall expert Roger Hill.
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pappy
First Line: Whut yuh doin', pappy?
Synopsis: Pappy has lost his glasses.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Last appearance in Crack Comics. Slap Happy Pappy moves to Plastic Man (Quality Comics, 1943 Series), starting with #17.
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Off To See the World

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Floogy the Fiji; Fuzzy; Champ; Chump
First Line: It's high time we reached land, Fuzzy! We may be discovering a new continent!
Synopsis: Floogy wants to get away from Fiji and see the world.
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Pages: 5
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Molly the Model [Molly Maloney]
First Line: There he is...someone said he's a big play producer!
Synopsis: At the beach, Molly mistakes a toy vendor for a producer.
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Disclose Notes: This is a virtually identical premise to a "Molly the Model" strip in Crack Comics 43 (July 1946).
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pop Maloney; Molly Maloney
First Line: Maloney, you have a beautiful daughter...
Synopsis: Pop advises a man to serenade the woman he loves, only to have the man show up that night with a tuba to serenade his daughter Molly.
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Girl in the Rain

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Hack O'Hara; Louise Fairfield (first appearance); Dot (first appearance); Tiger Martin (first appearance; villain); Joe
First Line: How do you like working the night shift, Hack?
Synopsis: Hack helps a kidnapped society gal.
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Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Formerly credited to Al Bryant.
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Wong Fu and the Opium Smugglers

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Genres: mystery
Character(s): Pen Miller; Wong Fu (first appearance); Rats (first appearance; villain); Pug (first appearance; villain); Muscles (first appearance; villain); Chop; Inspector Hunter
First Line: Mist' Miller! Is velly bad tlouble! Woe, oh woe!
Synopsis: Chop's friend Wong Fu is arrested for opium.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Beezy Bumble; Binnie Brumphy; Mrs. Brumphy; Noxia Brumphy; J.F. Brumphy; Bertram Bumble
First Line: What a shame that such a sharp number as Binnie Brumphy, has a ma who treats me like I was a large bug in her potato salad!
Synopsis: Beezy tries to impress his girlfriend Binnie's mother but only makes matters worse.
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A Whiff of Perfume

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Julio Mendez; Biff Banks; Kim Meredith
Synopsis: A man wants Lance to deliver a bottle of perfume into the US.
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Pages: 1.67
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Louie's Radio Mob

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Inkie; Louie; Joe; Mike
First Line: And now we bring you radio's famous daytime serial, 'Lovely Jane's True Lovers'!
Synopsis: A ham radio crook commits crimes with radio.
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Pages: 6
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First Line: Rope 'em both, partner!
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Character(s): J. E. Smith (photo)
First Line: I will send you both free
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First Line: And to think they used to call me skinny!
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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