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Crack Comics 2

CRACK COMICS #2

Cover Date: June 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox


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):

Greer (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Orchid (first appearance; a beautiful woman who has been aided by the Clock in the past; seems to know his true identity)


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Second Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHarry Kiefer
LetteringHarry Kiefer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart)

Villain(s):

German Navy

Location(s):

Northern Ice Cap

Comment(s):

Harry Kiefer credited as Roy Larkin.


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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):

Patterson (first appearance; blows up his department store for the insurance money; dies)


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Fourth Story: "Madam Fatal" (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Madame Fatal

Supporting Character(s):

Hamlet
Sgt. O'Malley (first appearance; a beat cop looking to get promoted to detective)

Villain(s):

spies (first appearance; looking to steal a destructive formula)


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Fifth Story: "The House of Fear" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Francis Campbell
ArtHarry Francis Campbell
LetteringHarry Francis Campbell
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wizard Wells (creates a special soft metal magnet and a electric field fence)

Supporting Character(s):

Tug
Mary Perry

Villain(s):

Black Morda


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Sixth Story: "The Black Condor" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black Condor (uses his Black Light Ray Gun for the first time)

Villain(s):

Ali Kan (first appearance; an Indian warlord)

Other Character(s):

Andrea and Denny Kent (first appearance; inherit a large Indian estate)

Location(s):

London, England
Eastern India (now called Pakistan)

Comment(s):

Eisner and Fine credited as Kenneth Lewis.


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