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Crack Comics 8

CRACK COMICS #8

Cover Date: December 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

Villain(s):

Lung Woe (first appearance; an oriental inventor who builds "Spinning Death Machines")
Foreign Agents (first appearance for all; buy the Machines)
Spinning Death Machines (first appearance for all; autonomous flying boring machines; escape from the foreign agents and kill Lung Woe; build more of themselves; destroyed)

Comment(s):

Fine credited as Kenneth Lewis.
Black Condor uses the Black Ray Gun to melt the charm.


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Second Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtArt Pinajian
LetteringArt Pinajian
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Madame Fatal

Villain(s):

Trag (first appearance; tries to steal a formula)

Location(s):

Bleak Island


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Third Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

ArtHenry Kiefer
LetteringHenry Kiefer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Red Torpedo (Jim Lockhart)

Villain(s):

Nazi submarines (first appearance for all; a large water-breathing brute that captures mermazons for slaves)
Black Shark

Comment(s):

Henry Kiefer credited as Drew Allen.


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryPaul Gustavson
ArtPaul Gustavson
LetteringPaul Gustavson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Spider

Supporting Character(s):

Chuck (Spider's chauffeur)

Villain(s):

Mike and his gang (first appearance for all; uses a kid and a movie company to cover their bank robberies)

Location(s):

A midwestern city
New York City, NY

Comment(s):

Spider drives the dangerous Black Widow in this story.


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Fifth Story: "With Remote Control" (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryHarry Francis Campbell
ArtHarry Francis Campbell
LetteringHarry Francis Campbell
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Wizard Wells

Supporting Character(s):

Tug


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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):

Snoop Carone and his gang (first appearance for all; dies)
Stuporman (first appearance; a Mongolian giant; dies)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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