Crack Comics
#36
(Winter 1944)
Quality Comics,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- quarterly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Comic Magazines
- Brand
-
Quality Comic Group
- Editing
- George Brenner (editor); E. M. Arnold (general manager)
[no title indexed]
Captain Triumph / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Captain Triumph turns a 'Good Neighbor' tour into a good fight!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Triumph
[no title indexed]
Captain Triumph / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- We are welcome in the home of our good neighbors to the south!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Captain Triumph [Lance Gallant]; Kim Meredith; Biff; Pancho; Cesar; Rinaldo
- Synopsis
- Kim is appointed a representative of the Good Neighbor Bureau and is sent to South America as a goodwill ambassador where Captain Triumph immediately gets involved in political intrigue and an attempted coop.
[no title indexed]
Slap Happy Pappy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Grand pap hez thuh right idee!
- Genre
- humor
[no title indexed]
Pen Miller / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- Klaus Nordling (signed as Klaus)
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed as Klaus)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed as Klaus)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Pen Miller, cartoonist-detective, uses his real-life adventures...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Pen Miller; Chop Chu; Clem Rouhy; Anne
- Synopsis
- Pen gets fired right in the middle of a strip about crooked politician Clem Rouhy.
Riddle of the Lucky License
Hack O'Hara / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jack Alderman (signed)
- Inks
- Jack Alderman (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Hack O'Hara
[no title indexed]
Molly the Model / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So this lady we're visiting has a little boy!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Molly the Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Mrs. Psmith; Pypdike Psmith
- Synopsis
- Pop runs afoul of a menacing little boy.
[no title indexed]
Molly the Model / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I heard there were some swell pictures on sale here very cheap!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Pop Maloney
- Synopsis
- Pop gets all dressed up to meet the "model" for a painting he admires, only to discover the artist mostly used his imagination.
[no title indexed]
Inkie / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bravo!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Inkie; John Bevins; Milt
- Synopsis
- Milt's wife drags him to see Shakespeare and somehow Inkie ends up on stage in the middle of the action.
Indexer Notes
The cartoonist featured as a character in the strip is Milton Stein, but the artwork does not resemble his work in the previous issue at all.
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
strip reprint
[no title indexed]
Beezy / comic story / 7 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The immortal loves in the life of Beezy Bumble...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Beezy Bumble; Mr. Bumble; Julie; Nitro; Betty Bumble; Edna; Ma Bumble
- Synopsis
- Beezy wants to take Julie on a date, so he dumps her obnoxious little brother Nitro on Pa Bumble.
[no title indexed]
Jonesy / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There's only one thing to do...
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Marvin "Jonesy" Jones; Mr. Jones
- Synopsis
- Jonesy tries to tell his father that he's going to propose to his girlfriend.
[no title indexed]
Floogy the Fiji / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I've got millions to burn!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Floogy the Fiji (first appearance)
Indexer Notes
Art appears to be similar to Pattengill’s signed Phineas the Great art from Ha Ha Comics #2 (November, 1943).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Captain Triumph turns a 'Good Neighbor' tour into a good fight!"]
Captain Triumph -
1.
["We are welcome in the home of our good neighbors to the south!"]
Captain Triumph -
2.
["Grand pap hez thuh right idee!"]
Slap Happy Pappy -
3.
["Pen Miller, cartoonist-detective, uses his real-life adventures..."]
Pen Miller -
4.
Riddle of the Lucky License
Hack O'Hara -
5.
["So this lady we're visiting has a little boy!"]
Molly the Model -
6.
["I heard there were some swell pictures on sale here very cheap!"]
Molly the Model -
7.
["Bravo!"]
Inkie -
8.
The Whirling Dervish
Eric Vale -
9.
[no title indexed]
Rube Goldberg's Side Show -
10.
["The immortal loves in the life of Beezy Bumble..."]
Beezy -
11.
["There's only one thing to do..."]
Jonesy -
12.
["I've got millions to burn!"]
Floogy the Fiji
This issue was modified by, among others
- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Daniel Martinez
- Clint Maxwell
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- David Wilt
- Len Wolinsky
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