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CRACK COMICS #21

Cover Date: February 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-12-17

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Gill Fox


Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black Condor

Supporting Character(s):

Doctor Foster (last in issue #19)
Wendy Foster

Villain(s):

Jasper Crow and his gang (selling classified information to a gossip columnist)
Kalten Winch (first appearance; a popular gossip columnist and news reader)
Karle Kurt (first appearance; a Nazi spy)

Location(s):

Washington, DC


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Second Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
LetteringGeorge Brenner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Clock

Villain(s):

Cokey Coen and his gang (first appearance for all)
Mouse (first appearance; a member of Coen's gang who shoots the Clock)

Other Character(s):

Butch (first appearance; a young orphan girl who nurses Clock back to health; wants to be his "moll")

Comment(s):

There is a break of several weeks or months in this story, as O'Brien recovers.


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtVernon Henkel
LetteringVernon Henkel
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Don Q

Supporting Character(s):

Little Pierre

Villain(s):

German Agitator (first appearance; dies)
Vastavian Leader (first appearance; dies)

Location(s):

Vastavia (first appearance; a repressed Eastern European country)
Vastipol


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryFred Guardineer
ArtFred Guardineer
LetteringFred Guardineer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Tor, The Magic Master

Villain(s):

German Air Force (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

London, England


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Fifth Story: "The League of Haunted Men" (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryArt Pinajian
ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Madame Fatal

Supporting Character(s):

Tubby White and Scrappy Nelson (start the Sure-Fire Detectif Agency)

Villain(s):

Spies (first appearance for all; attempt to steal aircraft plans)

Location(s):

Madame undergoes surgery, and her "secret" is kept by the surgeon.


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Spider

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck

Villain(s):

Crow (first appearance; breaks out of prison and steals the Black Widow; possibly dies)


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