Crack Comics #21

(February 1942)

[Spy Ring] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine [as Louis K. Fine] (signed)

Inks:

Lou Fine [as Louis K. Fine] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]; Kalten Winch; Dr. Foster; Wendy Foster; Jaspar Crow (villain); Karle Kurt (villain)

Synopsis:

The Condor discovers that Jaspar Crow has bugged the Senate and Senator Wright is implicated in leaking secret information. But Wendy steps in to help on this case by using her wiles on Wright's rival, and a Nazi spy, Karle Kurt.

[Early dawn at the Eagle Squadron's field...] (Table of Contents)

Spitfire / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Al McWilliams (signed)

Inks:

Al McWilliams

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

aviation

Characters:

Spitfire [Tex Adams]

[Driving a taxi in the big town...] (Table of Contents)

Hack O'Hara / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Lou Fine ?

Inks:

Lou Fine ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Hack O'Hara

[Meet Butch] (Table of Contents)

The Clock / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

George E. Brenner (signed)

Pencils:

George E. Brenner (signed)

Inks:

George E. Brenner

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Detective

Characters:

Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Butch (first appearance, a tough-girl sidekick)

Synopsis:

The Clock is shot by gangsters but is nursed back to health by an orphan girl who becomes his sidekick.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Monte Barrett

Pencils:

Russell Ross

Inks:

Russell Ross

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

soap opera

Indexer Notes

strip reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Molly The Model / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Devlin

Inks:

John Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Molly The Model

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Molly The Model / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Devlin

Inks:

John Devlin

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Molly The Model

[Vastipole Square is deserted...] (Table of Contents)

Don Q / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks:

Vernon Henkel (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

spy

Characters:

Don Q; Little Pierre; Olga Petroff; Petroff

Synopsis:

In Vastipole, working with the Vastavian Replublican Army, Don Q meets Olga Petroff while trying to avert a civil war.

["Hyar comes Amnesia Jones"] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Jack Cole

Inks:

Jack Cole

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

[The Bombing] (Table of Contents)

Tor the Magic Master / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks:

Fred Guardineer (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

occult

Characters:

Tor

[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

[The Basket] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Art Pinajian (signed)

Inks:

Art Pinajian (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; Scrappy Nelson; Tubby White; Pop Hudson; Roxi (villain)

Synopsis:

Fatal and his two teen age sidekicks rescue defense plans from a spy ring.

Biggest Thrill (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Larry Spain

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

Characters:

Eric Vale

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Bob Zuppke

Pencils:

B. W. Depew

Inks:

B. W. Depew

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

sports

Synopsis:

strip reprints

"I've never seen such a thing in my life" (Table of Contents)

Snappy / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Arthur Beeman (signed)

Inks:

Arthur Beeman (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

humor

[The Crow Escapes] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks:

Paul Gustavson (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; The Crow (villain); Chuck; The Black Widow (Spider's car)

Synopsis:

The Crow escapes from the death house and The Spider goes after him, but the Crow ends up stealing the Spider's car, the Black Widow, giving him an added incentive to track him down.