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Crack Comics 4

CRACK COMICS #4

Cover Date: August 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox


Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black Condor (disguises himself as an old man)

Villain(s):

Sinh Fang (first appearance; an Central European tyrant who follows a rajah's daughter to America)

Comment(s):

Fine credited as Kenneth Lewis.
Black Condor uses the Black Ray Gun to melt metal in this story.


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Second Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHarry Kiefer
LetteringHarry Kiefer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart)

Supporting Character(s):

“’Peg”’ (see Comments)

Villain(s):

Foreign sailors (first appearance for all; operating from a hidden base in New York Harbor)

Location(s):

New York City, NY

Comment(s):

Harry Kiefer credited as Roy Larkin.
Peg is probably Meg from #1 renamed.


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Third Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Spider

Villain(s):

Marlin (first appearance; a mine owner who sabotages another mine to take it over; dies.)


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Madame Fatal

Villain(s):

spies (first appearance for all)


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Fifth Story: "The Case of The Fainting Fighters…" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Francis Campbell
ArtHarry Francis Campbell
LetteringHarry Francis Campbell
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wizard Wells (boxes as Mystery X)

Supporting Character(s):

Tug

Villain(s):

Joe Jambon (first appearance; a crooked boxing promoter)


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGeorge Brenner
ArtGeorge Brenner
LetteringGeorge Brenner
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Clock

Supporting Character(s):

Pug Brady

Villain(s):

Asp (first appearance; uses poisons to commit crimes; dies)


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