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Quality Comics·Crack Comics·#12·Golden Age·ID-24948
| Grade | Census & Float Distribution | Copies / Slabs | Role | FMV | Sales | Total Value | Multiple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.8 | 0 slabs | 0 | SOV | $191.00 | — | — | (1.0x) |
| 9.6 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.4 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| 9.2 | 1 of 10 slabs (10.0%) | 1 | — | — | — | (10.0% / <0.01%) | |
| 9.0 | 0 slabs | 0 | — | — | — | — | |
| RAW | ~25 surviving raw (of ~280,000 printed) | 25 | RAW | $191.00 | — | $4,775 | (1.0x Base) |
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The birth of superheroes. Superman, Batman, Captain America, and Wonder Woman debut. Comics became a mass medium.
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In Washington DC, Senator Tom Wright sponsors the "Wright Mining Bill," mandating better working conditions for miners, which is voted down and goes back to committee. Pennsylvania mine owner Jaspar Crow opposes the bill, with outright thuggery directed against some U.S. Senators. At Crow's mine, the disappointed workers finally rally themselves up for a strike; and the Mayor needs a pretext for sending in the militia, so a company foreman gets mysteriously shot dead one night, and soon the company town is under martial law. That night just outside of town, a secret meeting of the miners' leadership is raided by a hooded goon squad of whip-and-club-wielding fake vigilantes; there's a melee; the Black Condor crashes into the shack and beats down several bad guys; one squealer tells him about a dynamite charge planted at the mine entrance. Just then the charge goes off; now several miners are trapped below ground. Meanwhile two more hooded gunmen sneak into the room behind the Black Condor but he punches them both out, then flies off to the rescue. The "black ray" (firing a red beam) eats a gaping hole in the sheer rocky wall, and the Condor flies in to search for survivors, finding and rescuing at least two. Outside the mine, the torch-waving hooded fake vigilantes are gathering for the next skirmish, but one miner tells the Black Condor where to find some big bags of coal dust, which ignites explosively when he drops it across the bad guys' flaming torches. Shortly later he visits Jaspar Crow's office, beats up two more large thugs, and tells him, in mid-fight, "... and this is a promise from Tom Wright to put that law through." But when he looks around, Crow is already gone; it's not clear whether the villain heard the hero blurt that out or not. The Condor then calls (from Crow's office phone) the Governor of Pennsylvania, speaking as Tom Wright, and tells him the trouble is over and the militia can be recalled. And later on, the Wright Bill does come up for another vote and this time it passes.
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Slim shows Bill his Hollywood Album that he got when he got a Schwinn bicycle.
Jaspar Crow works to keep mine workers down.
Molly refuses to lend her father any more money.
Captain X steals the Space Legion's new ship, the fastest ship around.
Wizard Wells is captured by the Double Cross, a group planning to conquer New York.
The Red Torpedo rests on an island that turns out to be a refueling station for the Mongols.
Jane plans a trap for the spies.
Lena believes that dreaming of fish will bring her money.
The Spider works to stop the Cricket and his Crickets.
Ned and Bud play a prank on Jake.
Snappy catches a burglar.
Tor discovers a plot to ruin the country with counterfeit money.
An actor is believed to have killed his director.
Bradshaw's dad tries to talk to him.
Crooks are killing people by throwing a blue cloak over them.
About Charley Hoff's pole vaulting record.
A man offers to buy Pappy's land for the sap trees.
The Clock figures out a way to get Big Boy Broge to confess to killing Hy Jakker.
Bill saves his sister.
In Washington DC, Senator Tom Wright sponsors the "Wright Mining Bill," mandating better working conditions for miners, which is voted down and goes back to committee. Pennsylvania mine owner Jaspar Crow opposes the bill, with outright thuggery directed against some U.S. Senators.
At Crow's mine, the disappointed workers finally rally themselves up for a strike; and the Mayor needs a pretext for sending in the militia, so a company foreman gets mysteriously shot dead one night, and soon the company town is under martial law. That night just outside of town, a secret meeting of the miners' leadership is raided by a hooded goon squad of whip-and-club-wielding fake vigilantes; there's a melee; the Black Condor crashes into the shack and beats down several bad guys; one squealer tells him about a dynamite charge planted at the mine entrance. Just then the charge goes off; now several miners are trapped below ground. Meanwhile two more hooded gunmen sneak into the room behind the Black Condor but he punches them both out, then flies off to the rescue. The "black ray" (firing a red beam) eats a gaping hole in the sheer rocky wall, and the Condor flies in to search for survivors, finding and rescuing at least two. Outside the mine, the torch-waving hooded fake vigilantes are gathering for the next skirmish, but one miner tells the Black Condor where to find some big bags of coal dust, which ignites explosively when he drops it across the bad guys' flaming torches.
Shortly later he visits Jaspar Crow's office, beats up two more large thugs, and tells him, in mid-fight, "... and this is a promise from Tom Wright to put that law through." But when he looks around, Crow is already gone; it's not clear whether the villain heard the hero blurt that out or not. The Condor then calls (from Crow's office phone) the Governor of Pennsylvania, speaking as Tom Wright, and tells him the trouble is over and the militia can be recalled. And later on, the Wright Bill does come up for another vote and this time it passes.
Alias, the Spider: Tom Hallaway body count is now <u>></u> 14. Black Condor: The first name of the villain of the first story is spelled "Jaspar" in the story. Other online indexes present it as "Jasper." Black Condor's Black Ray Pistol, in addition to its paralysis, engine-killing, and concussion effects, is also capable of partially disintegrating a rock cliff. For this effect, the beam is red. In this issue, The Clock is knocked unconscious with a blunt instrument for the (at least) 3rd time in his career. Red Torpedo: In Quality Comics' comic books of 1940 and 1941, the Mongolians were a military threat rivaling that of Japan. In Crack Comics (#12), and in (#18), the Red Torpedo fought "Mongolese" submariners, aviators, and soldiers, in the western Pacific Ocean. In National Comics (#1, etc.), Wonder Boy fought a vast army of invading Mongolians on the eastern frontier of Europe. Jim Lockhart's body count now = 5 submarine crews + 1 battleship crew + 1 guy. Tor: The last name of the villain in the fifth story is spelled "Zaarn" in the story. Other online indexes present it as "Zaran." According to Wizard Wells, the Miracle Man of Science, liquid air and charcoal combine to form an explosive that's four times as powerful, and twice as delicate, as TNT. In the third story of this issue, Wells kills several hundred Fifth Column soldiers, using this explosive. Also appearing in this issue of Crack Comics were: Molly The Model, by Bernard Dibble Rube Goldberg's Side Show, by Rube Goldberg Slap Happy Pappy, by Jack Cole Snappy, art by Arthur Beeman Off The Record : "About That Soaring Norwegian", by Bob Zuppke and R.W. DePew