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21February 1942
$0.10

Crack Comics #21

Quality Comics · February 1942 · on sale 1941-12-17

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Series
Crack Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series)
Issue
#21
Publication date
February 1942
Key date
1942-02-00
On-sale date
1941-12-17
Indicia publisher
Comic Magazines Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
68

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Gill Fox; inks: Gill FoxThe Black Condor, Richard Grey, Jr. / Thomas Wright, The Spider, Tex Adams, The Clock, Tom Hallaway, Brian O'Brien, Spitfire
2Spy Ringcomic story9pencils: Louis K. Fine; inks: Louis K. FineThe Black Condor, Richard Grey, Jr. / Thomas Wright
3-comic story6pencils: Al McWilliams; inks: Al McWilliamsTex Adams, Spitfire
4-comic story5pencils: Lou Fine; inks: Lou FineHack O'Hara; John Alexis; McCarthy; Lefty
5Meet Butchcomic story7script: George E. Brenner; pencils: George E. Brenner; inks: George E. BrennerThe Clock, Brian O'Brien
6-comic story4script: Monte Barrett; pencils: Russell E. Ross; inks: Russell E. RossJane Arden; Rettor; Velk; Lena Pry; Dandy Jim; Bill; Hector Malby
7-comic story1pencils: John Devlin; inks: John DevlinMolly The Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Murphy
8-comic story1pencils: John Devlin; inks: John DevlinMolly The Model [Molly Maloney]; Nifty; Danny
9-comic story6pencils: Vernon Henkel; inks: Vernon HenkelDon Q [Don]; Little Pierre; Olga Petroff; Petroff
10-comic story1pencils: Jack Cole; inks: Jack ColePappy; Amnesia Jones
11The Bombingcomic story5script: Fred Guardineer; pencils: Fred Guardineer; inks: Fred GuardineerTor [Jim Slade]; The Nazis (villains, many die)
12-comic story1script: Rube Goldberg; pencils: Rube Goldberg; inks: Rube GoldbergAlice Von Pepp; Bertha De Foam; Bradshaw
13The Basketcomic story5pencils: Art Pinajian; inks: Art PinajianMadam Fatal, Richard Stanton
14Biggest Thrilltext story1.6script: Larry SpainEric Vale; Kev; Mr. Gregory; Mrs. Vale
15Statement of Ownershipstatement of ownership0.4letters: typeset
16-comic story4script: Bob Zuppke; pencils: B. W. Depew; inks: B. W. DepewNed Brant; Jake; Wolf; Jammer Steel; Bud
17-comic story1script: Arthur Beeman; pencils: Arthur Beeman; inks: Arthur BeemanSnappy; Spot (dog)
18The Crow Escapescomic story6script: Paul Gustavson; pencils: Paul Gustavson; inks: Paul Gustavson; letters: Paul GustavsonThe Spider, Tom Hallaway

Plus 3 pages of advertisements and other matter across 3 sequences, as published.

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