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| Inker1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Art Pinajian
- Lou Fine
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| Inker1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Art Pinajian
- Lou Fine
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| Writer1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Will Eisner
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| Penciler1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Art Pinajian
- Lou Fine
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| Writer1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Will Eisner
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| StoryTitle | - Alias the Spider: "The Sign of the Cricket"
- Origin of the Red Torpedo
- The Clock: "The Story of Pug Brady"
- The Origin of Madam Fatal
- Wizard Wells: "Too Hot to Hold"
- The Black Condor: "The Man Who Can Fly Like a Bird"
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| Penciler1 | - George E. Brenner
- Paul Gustavson
- Art Pinajian
- Lou Fine
- Henry Kiefer
- Harry Francis Campbell
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| Appearing | - Featured Characters:
* Wizard Wells, the Miracle Man of Science
Supporting Characters:
* Tug
Adversaries:
*
Other Characters:
*
Locations:
*
Items:
*
Vehicles:
*
- Featured Characters:
* Red Torpedo
Supporting Characters:
*
Adversaries:
* Nazis
Other Characters:
* Meg
* Captain Wells
Locations:
*
Items:
*
Vehicles:
* Red Torpedo
- Featured Characters:
* Black Condor
Supporting Characters:
*
Adversaries:
* Gali Kan
* Yakki Raiders
Other Characters:
* Mr. Richard Grey
* Mrs. Richard Grey
* Father Pierre
Locations:
* Mongolia
Items:
*
Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
* Alias the Spider
Supporting Characters:
*
Adversaries:
* Cricket
* the Cricket's gang
Other Characters:
*
Locations:
*
Items:
* Alias The Spider's trademark weapon was an arrow that burst into flame upon shooting, and which bore a scarab-like tip that embedded into its target.
Vehicles:
*
- Featured Characters:
* Madam Fatal
Supporting Characters:
* Hamlet
Adversaries:
* John Carver
* Mike
* Lou
Other Characters:
*
Locations:
*
Items:
*
Vehicles:
*
- Featured Characters:
* The Clock
Supporting Characters:
* Pat "Pug" Brady
Adversaries:
* The Big Shot
* Butch
* Tony
Other Characters:
* Officer Casey
* Mr. Dooly
* Miss Dooly
* Captain Kane
Locations:
*
Items:
*
Vehicles:
*
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| Links | - * Crack Comics #1 entire issue
* Crack Comics #1 entire issue, older link
* Crack Comics #1 index entry
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| Synopsis | - Brian O'Brien helps out a jobless man, "Pug" Brady, who tried to steal Brian's watch. Pug was an ex-heavyweight boxing champ and ex-All-American fullback, and his life was screwed up due to having killed a guy in self-defense. Pug followed the Clock, on a case, and freed him when he was captured, but once again, Pug wound up killing the Clock's attacker; O'Brien moved to cover it up. Brady and O'Brien turn out to be near-lookalikes. The two continue their partnership and go after the crime boss, the Big Shot, who is secretly the Mayor.
- Jim Lockhart and his fiancee Meg Norris build a "red torpedo" , and launch it to aid in the war effort. In his first adventure, Lockhart dons a mask and saves an American ship from European aggressors.
- ... Putting his skills to use, the Black Condor hunts, attacks, and defeats the raiders, just as they are attacking a small walled city, full of Hindu-looking, Allah-invoking people, in a mountainous part of South Asia. Condor snatches Gali Kan right out of his saddle and flies him up to some scary altitude then drops him; his condors attack the raiders, encouraging the locals to a more vigorous defense, and ending the reign of terror.
- Organized crime is running rampant in the big city, and the Cricket mob is behind it, until Alias The Spider sends the Cricket to a watery grave.
- For nine years, Richard Stanton has been looking for the man who kidnapped his daughter. Posing in drag, as an old lady, he finally located the thug, John Carver, who accidentally shot himself. But before he died, Carver revealed that Stanton's daughter was still alive!
- An archaeologist and his family trek outer Mongolia, and are ambushed by raiders. Realizing their plight, the mother hides her baby behind some rocks. The raiders savagely massacre everyone, yet unnoticed, a giant condor swoops and gathers the child and brings it to its nest. The child grows to be a boy, and studies the movement of wings, body motion, air currents, balance, and levitation. One day, the condors are attacked by a tribe of eagles. The flying man falls in combat and is found by Father Pierre, a hermit, who teaches the young man the ways of man, dubbing him the Black Condor. After one year with Pierre, the Black Condor discovers the hermit murdered by the raiders of Gali Kan.
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| Notes | - * The city in which The Clock operates is never identified, but whatever town it is, it has been very unfortunate in its selection of mayors and other top municipal officials. This issue Mayor Kozer is exposed as secretly a crime boss; earlier in Feature Comics #22 (July 1939) it was Mayor Tull who murdered District Attorney Ted Downs. And of course back in Feature Funnies #14 (Nov 1938), Mayor Willis got murdered by Police Commissioner Litz.
* "The Origin of Madam Fatal" is reprinted in The Quality Companion .
* Also appearing in this issue were:
** Jane Arden: , by Monte Barrett & Russell E. Ross
** Space Legion: "Introducing Rock Braddon", by Vernon Henkel
** Ned Brant: , by Bob Zuppke & B.W. DePew
** Lee Preston of the Red Cross: , by Bob Powell
* The Black Condor's costume was colored red, for this issue only.
* The Black Condor's South Asian despot-warlord villain this issue is Gali Kan, raiding and looting. Next issue, his next South Asian despot-warlord villain will be Ali Kan, attempting to usurp a principality adjoining his own.
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| quotation | - Since you asked for it, I'll fight you Crickets in your own fashion... with death!
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