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CRACK COMICS #1
Cover Date: May 1940
Cover Price: $.10
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Cover Credits:
Art: Ed Cronin ?
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Credits:
| Story | George Brenner |
| Art | George Brenner |
| Lettering | George Brenner |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Clock (last in Feature Comics #31)
Supporting Character(s):
- Pug Brady (Pat Brady; first appearance; a down on his luck former college athlete; is a double for Brian; begins helping him in his fighting crime)
Villain(s):
- Big Shot (Mayor Kozar; first appearance; runs the city's rackets)
Credits:
| Story | Paul Gustavson |
| Art | Paul Gustavson |
| Lettering | Paul Gustavson |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Spider (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- Cricket (first appearance; a crime boss; probably dies)
Credits:
| Story | Harry Francis Campbell |
| Art | Harry Francis Campbell |
| Lettering | Harry Francis Campbell |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Wizard Wells (first appearance; a former college athlete and inventor)
Supporting Character(s):
- Tug (first appearance; a former punch drunk boxer)
Villain(s):
- Black Morda (first appearance; a protection racketeer)
Credits:
| Art | Harry Kiefer |
| Lettering | Harry Kiefer |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart; first appearance; retired US Navy engineer and designer; builds a large two-person submarine called the Red Torpedo)
Supporting Character(s):
- Meg (first appearance; Jim's fiancée; aids him in building his sub)
Villain(s):
- German Navy (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Washington, DC
Comment(s):
- Harry Kiefer credited as Drew Allen.
Credits:
| Art | Art Pinajian |
| Lettering | Art Pinajian |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Madam Fatal (Richard Stanton; first appearance; uses his make-up and acting skills to dress as an old lady to fool a gang of protection racketeers; continues fighting crime as Madame Fatal; also in flashback to 10 years before this story)
Supporting Character(s):
- Hamlet (first appearance; Richard's talking parrot)
Villain(s):
- John Carver (first appearance; crook who kidnapped Richard's daughter 8 years before; dies)
Credits:
| Story | Will Eisner |
| Art | Lou Fine |
| Lettering | Lou Fine |
| Editing | Ed Cronin |
Feature Character(s):
- Black Condor (first appearance; an infant orphan raised by a rare flock of Himalayan Condors; also in flashbacks to birth and youth)
Villain(s):
- Gali Kan (first appearance; leader of the raiders that killed his parents and Father Pierre; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Major and Mrs. Richard Grey (first appearance; archaeologists who are killed in the Himalayas)
- Father Pierre (first appearance; a hermit who teaches the feral youth the ways of humankind; dies
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Location(s):
- Mongolia
Comment(s):
- Eisner and Fine credited as Kenneth Lewis.