Crack Comics #25 Mile High Pedigree (Quality, 1942) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages....

Auction amount: $1,920.00

Sold: Aug 4, 2018

Crack Comics #25 Values

Publisher: Quality Comics, 1942

About Crack Comics #25

The Black Condor is the cover feature. Al McWilliams, Klaus Nordling, Paul Gustavson, and Fred Guardineer art.

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COVER DETAILS

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

Pencils: Gill Fox

Inks: Gill Fox

STORY DETAILS

(16 Stories)

Title: The Pumpkinhead Plot

Characters: The Black Condor [Senator Thomas Wright]; Dr. Foster; Wendy Foster; Senator Pumpkinhead Hardy (introduction); Jaspar Crow (villain); Elsa Papendorf (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Wendy is taking a first aid course in school, taught by an Austrian refugee with a "W" scar on his face. He uses the same girl each day to model injuries, bandaging her, but, strangely enough, giving that girl the bandages each day. Tom smells a rat and decides to investigate as the Condor and literally drops into the classroom, feigning injury to get bandaged. The bandages contain secret messages, and the Condor follows the clues to Jaspar Crow himself!

Pages: 9.000

Script: Otto Binder ?; Toni Blum ?

Pencils: John Cassone [as J. C.] (signed)

Inks: John Cassone [as J. C.] (signed)

Notes: Script credits suggested by the Who's Who.

Title: Joe Chang's Guerillas

Characters: Spitfire [Tex Adams]; Joe Chang (first appearance); Japanese (villains)

Pages: 6.000

Script: Al McWilliams [as A. McWilliams] (signed)

Pencils: Al McWilliams [as A. McWilliams] (signed)

Inks: Al McWilliams [as A. McWilliams] (signed)

Title: Pen Miller's Nazi Double

Characters: Pen Miller; Pen's secretary (first appearance); Scribbler (first appearance; villain); Hack (first appearance; villain); Mummer (first appearance; villain)

Pages: 5.000

Script: Klaus Nordling [as Klaus] (signed)

Pencils: Klaus Nordling [as Klaus] (signed)

Inks: Klaus Nordling [as Klaus] (signed)

Title: Who Is He?

Characters: Don Q; A German field marshall (first appearance; villain; death); Gen. Gerichter (first appearance; villain; death); Captain Grunz (villains); Nazis (villains)

Pages: 6.000

Script: Vernon Henkel (signed)

Pencils: Vernon Henkel (signed)

Inks: Vernon Henkel (signed)

Characters: Molly The Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Danny Deever; P.T. Bumpf

Synopsis: At the beach, Pop destroys Molly's chance to impress P.T. Bumpf, who could help her modeling career.

Pages: 1.000

Script: John Devlin

Pencils: John Devlin

Inks: John Devlin

Title: The Secret of Mouse Malone

Characters: The Spider [Tom Hallaway]; Chuck; Mouse Malone [aka Shorty] (villain); Honest Abe Lavery (villain); Slippery (villain, death); Joe (villain, death); Butch Parker (villain)

Synopsis: The Spider must track down a killer who has horribly strangled two of Honest Abe Lavery's men following a poker game. Chuck finally is able to steer the Spider in the right direction to the killer.

Pages: 6.000

Script: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Pencils: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Inks: Paul Gustavson (signed)

Letters: Paul Gustavson

Reprints: Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #441 (June-July 1974)

Notes: All Gustavson credits verified and courtesy of Terry Gustafson, son of Paul Gustavson.

Title: Raid in Holland

Characters: Tor [Jim Slade] (press photographer); Jim's unnamed newspaper editor; Dutch Van Meer (introduction, death); the Nazis (villains, many die)

Synopsis: Jim is given the tough assignment of photographing a British commando unit in action during a raid in Holland. He teams up with commando Dutch van Meer. When Dutch is killed during the raid, Jim assumes his magical identity of Tor and fills in for him.

Pages: 5.000

Script: Fred Guardineer

Pencils: Fred Guardineer (signed)

Inks: Fred Guardineer (signed)

Title: The Gonky Mob Copycat Crimes

Characters: Clock [Brian O'Brien]; Butch; Gonky (first appearance; villain); Rip (first appearance; villain); Slug (first appearance; villain)

Pages: 7.000

Script: George Brenner

Pencils: George Brenner

Inks: George Brenner

Notes: Butch mentions that she should've teamed with The Spirit; Clock: "The Spirit--BAH!!"; Clock has Spirit / Dr. Strange style window

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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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	5
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
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	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	6

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