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Crack Comics 3

CRACK COMICS #3

Cover Date: July 1940
Cover Price: $.10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Gill Fox


Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtLou Fine
LetteringLou Fine
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Black Condor

Villain(s):

Ras Gyn (first appearance; an Indian criminal who follows a rajah's daughter to America)

Location(s):

Eastern India (now called Pakistan)
New York City, NY

Comment(s):

Eisner and Fine credited as Kenneth Lewis.


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Second Story: [No Title] (4 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Spider

Supporting Character(s):

Harry (first appearance; Spider's chauffeur)

Villain(s):

Mr. and Mrs. Anderson (first appearance; fake husband's kidnapping to take control of Mercury Realty Corp.)


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Third Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHarry Kiefer
LetteringHarry Kiefer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart)

Villain(s):

William Wotan (first appearance; head of the Eutonia Steamship Lines; secretly uses pirate submarines to sink his own ships)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean

Comment(s):

Harry Kiefer credited as Roy Larkin.


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Fourth 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):

Scar Sizza (first appearance)


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Fifth Story: "The Death-Ray Decoy" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Francis Campbell
ArtHarry Francis Campbell
LetteringHarry Francis Campbell
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wizard Wells (creates a fake death-ray and a heat ray)

Supporting Character(s):

Tug
Mary Perry

Villain(s):

spies (first appearance for all)


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Sixth Story: "Madam Fatal" (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Madame Fatal

Supporting Character(s):

Hamlet

Villain(s):

Slade (first appearance; uses a torpedo cannon to sink ships; dies)


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