Crack Comics #18 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1941

About Crack Comics #18

Black Condor cover. Lou Fine art.

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Another Exciting Episode of the Black Condor

Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Tom Wright]; The Clock [Brian O'Brien] (inset); Jane Arden (inset); The Spider [Tom Hallaway] (inset); Spitfire [Tex Adams] (inset); Molly The Model (inset)

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

Notes: Art credit verified by Jim Amash in TwoMorrows The Quality Companion, page 72.

STORY DETAILS

(20 Stories)

Title: The Dreaded Black Condor...

Characters: The Black Condor [Richard Grey, Jr. as Senator Thomas Wright]

Pages: 9.000

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

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

Reprints: Superman (DC, 1939 series) #252 (June 1972), | DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 series) #DC-13 (June 1972)

Title: The Red Torpedo and the Black Shark

Characters: The Red Torpedo [Jim Lockhart]; The Black Shark (villain); un-named Mongol Admiral (villain)

Synopsis: The Torpedo and Black Shark are in mortal combat at Satan's Island, where Shark had allied himself with a Mongolese admiral who forced them to fight to the death. The Torpedo wins and insists that he be allowed to spare Shark's life and take him prisoner. However, his arch enemy is ungrateful, and, once free, tries to bomb the Red Torpedo.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Henry Kiefer ? [as Drew Allen] (signed)

Pencils: Henry Kiefer [as Drew Allen] (signed)

Inks: Henry Kiefer [as Drew Allen] (signed)

Notes: The Who's Who verifies, as do Mike Kooiman and Jim Amash in the Quality Companion, that Kiefer, not only created this feature, but did the art for it through the strip's entire run. However, the Who's Who does not specify a writer for the strip (although Kiefer is usually considered to have written it) so a ? has been placed after his name as writer. Drew Allen is Kiefer's pen-name used on the strip.

Title: To the fearless men...

Characters: Space Legion (last appearance); Captain Rock Braddon (last appearance, hero, legion captain); Curly (legion officer, introduction); Yuk-Yuk (villain); Koola girl

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Vernon Henkel

Inks: Vernon Henkel

Notes: This issue is the end of the story.

Title: The Crow

Characters: The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; The Crow (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: The Spider meets and battles a scar-faced underworld boss called the Crow.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson

Pencils: Paul Gustavson

Inks: Paul Gustavson

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Notes: All Gustavson credits from Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Title: The Black Witch

Characters: Madam Fatal [Richard Stanton]; The Black Witch (villain)

Synopsis: Madam Fatal must stop the efforts of the Black Witch of Haiti, who wants to kill another friend's wife.

Pages: 5.000

Pencils: Art Pinajian

Inks: Art Pinajian

Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3

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