Crack Comics #38
Quality Comics
United States
- Published
- Summer 1945
- Page count
- 60
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Golden Age size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
-
Quality Comic Group
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- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/4477
Credits
- Editing
- George Brenner, Editor
- Management
- Busy Arnold, General Manager
Issue contents
Cover
Captain Triumph Visits the Castle of Shadows!
(Captain Triumph)
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Triumph
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Captain Triumph
Credits
- Art
- Al Bryant, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
1Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Triumph
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Captain Triumph [Lance and Michael Gallant]; Biff; Kim Meredith; Lona Mills (first appearance); Krogar (villain, introduction, death)
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Mort Leav, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Reprint history
- Based on
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Crack Comics (Quality, 1940 series) #38 (Summer 1945) — The Castle of Shadows
-
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #15 ([October 1960]) — The Castle of Shadows
- Also printed
-
Captain Triumph Comics (Color Comics, 1949 series) #17 ([October 1949?]) — The Castle of Shadows
- Printed in
- Captain Triumph Comics (K. G. Murray, 1947 series) #17 ([1949])
Synopsis
Lona Mills inherits a haunted house, although most of the ghosts were the crooked kind. Lance was tied and unable to deal with the situation as Captain Triumph until Michael coaxed a rat into chewing the ropes free so that Lance could touch his special birthmark.
2
3Featuring
- Feature
- Pen Miller
- Genre
- Detective-mystery
- Characters
- Pen Miller; The Rotley Gang and their Chief (first appearance; villains); Chop Chu; Kansas; Benny the Mouse
Credits
- Writing
- Klaus Nordling, scripter [signed]
- Art
- Klaus Nordling, line art [signed]
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Taxi O'Hara Comics (Colour Comics, 1948? series) #5 ([January 1951?]) — Untitled [The Mastermind of the Rotley Gang]
Synopsis
Pen Miller is turning up the heat on the Rotley Gang, so they want to rub him out before he discovers their leader.
4Featuring
- Feature
- Hack O'Hara
- Genre
- Adventure
- Characters
- Hack O'Hara; Nora Hayes (first appearance); Henry Hayes and his accomplices (first appearance; villains)
Credits
- Writing
- Vern Henkel, scripter
- Art
- Vern Henkel, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Reprint history
5"What on earth -- ?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Molly the Model
- Genre
- Humour
- Characters
- Molly the Model; Maloney; Mrs. Pennypickle
Credits
- Writing
- Bernard Dibble, scripter
- Art
- Bernard Dibble, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Maloney's cheap eyeglasses get him in hot water.
6"The boys at the club bet me a buck apiece I couldn't date a real model!"
Featuring
- Feature
- Molly the Model
- Genre
- Humour
- Characters
- Maloney
Credits
- Writing
- Bernard Dibble, scripter
- Art
- Bernard Dibble, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
To win a bet, Maloney convinces an ad agency to let him date a model. It turns out to be a pig named Miss McPuffy.
7"What is that smell?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Molly the Model
- Genre
- Humour
- Characters
- Molly the Model; Maloney; Widow Bagabux
Credits
- Writing
- Bernard Dibble, scripter
- Art
- Bernard Dibble, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Hoping to get rich, Maloney invents a perfume, with disastrous results.
8Featuring
- Feature
- Floogy the Fiji
- Genre
- Humour
- Characters
- Floogy the Fiji
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
9Featuring
- Feature
- Rube Goldberg's Side Show
- Genre
- Humour
Credits
- Writing
- Rube Goldberg, scripter
- Art
- Rube Goldberg, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
10Credits
- Writing
- , author
- Text
- , typeset
11
12"Love can be a tragic thing when the fathers of the two people involved..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Beezy
- Genre
- Humour
- Characters
- Beezy Bumble; Betty Bumble; Mr. Geezy; Pa Bumble; Judge Puffybuddy; Ma Bumble
Credits
- Writing
- Bernard Dibble, scripter
- Art
- Bernard Dibble, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Synopsis
Beezy attempts to get his father and the father of Betty's boyfriend to make amends, but the result is a wild street brawl. Betty then tells Beezy she has a new boyfriend now, anyway.
13"This Monster Man is very dangerous, so remember--"
Featuring
- Feature
- Captain Tootsie [ad]; Tootsie Roll
- Characters
- Captain Tootsie; Rollo; Monster Man
Credits
- Writing
- Rod Reed, scripter
- Art
- C. C. Beck, line art
- Colours
- , colourist
- Text
- , letterer
Indicia
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