Crack Comics #8

(December 1940)

[The Menace of the Thinking Machines] (Table of Contents)

Black Condor / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine

Inks:

Lou Fine

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. aka Senator Thomas Wright]; Lung Woe (villain, introduction, death); un-named enemy Nazi spy (villain, introduction); the Spinning Deaths (villains, introduction, sentient machines, death)

Synopsis:

The Condor must overcome the Chinese Lung Woe, who has created the drilling "spinning death machine" for his Nazi cohort. Unfortunately for them, the machine turns out to have a mind of its own and manufactures an army itself!

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Molly the Model / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Joe Devlin

Pencils:

Joe Devlin

Inks:

Joe Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Molly the Model

[Vendrome's Electrical Weapon] (Table of Contents)

Space Legion / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Vernon Henkel

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel

Inks:

Vernon Henkel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Space Legion; Dr. Wadsworth; Elaine Wadsworth; Vendrome (first appearance villain; death)

[The Secret of the Rex] (Table of Contents)

Madam Fatal / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Art Pinajian

Pencils:

Art Pinajian

Inks:

Art Pinajian

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Madam Fatal; Dr. Prowl (first appearance); Thor (first appearance); Trag (first appearance; villain); Prof. Crane (first appearance; villain)

[Allied With the Black Shark] (Table of Contents)

Red Torpedo / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Kiefer

Pencils:

Henry Kiefer

Inks:

Henry Kiefer

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; Capt. Arville (first appearance; death); Black Shark (villain); Nazis (villains); Herr Schaft (first appearance; villain; death)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Jane Arden / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Monte Barrett

Pencils:

Russell E. Ross

Inks:

Russell E. Ross

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

soap opera

Characters:

Jane Arden

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[The Boy and the Bank Robbers] (Table of Contents)

Alias the Spider / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Gustavson

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson

Inks:

Paul Gustavson

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Bobby (first appearance); the "old timer" (first appearance); Mike (villain); Spud (villain); other crooks (first appearance; villains; one death)

[The Saboteurs and the Train Crash] (Table of Contents)

Lee Preston of the Red Cross / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Nick Cardy

Inks:

Nick Cardy

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Lee Preston; Rick Royce

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Snappy / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Arthur Beeman

Pencils:

Arthur Beeman

Inks:

Arthur Beeman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Ned Brant / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Bob Zuppke

Pencils:

E. W. DePew

Inks:

E. W. DePew

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

sports

Characters:

Ned Brant

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

Jungle Blitzkrieg (Table of Contents)

Eric Vale / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Larry Spain

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Characters:

Eric Vale

[The Anti-Gun Judge] (Table of Contents)

Slap Happy Pappy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Gill Fox

Pencils:

Gill Fox

Inks:

Gill Fox

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

With Remote Control (Table of Contents)

Wizard Wells / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Harry Campbell

Pencils:

Harry Campbell

Inks:

Harry Campbell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Wizard Wells; Jason Terrell (first appearance); Betty Terrell (first appearance); Ralph Terrell (villain); John Terrell (villain)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Rube Goldberg

Pencils:

Rube Goldberg

Inks:

Rube Goldberg

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Gags

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[Stuporman] (Table of Contents)

Clock / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George Brenner

Pencils:

George Brenner

Inks:

George Brenner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

detective

Characters:

Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Pug; Stuporman (first appearance; villain; death); Snoop Cadrone (first appearance; villain; death)

Indexer Notes

Though "Stuporman" is a dumb, giant Mongolian thug, he is clearly also meant to be a parody of Superman.