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56September 1948
$0.10

Crack Comics #56

Quality Comics · September 1948

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Series
Crack Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series)
Issue
#56
Publication date
September 1948
Key date
1948-09-00
Indicia publisher
Comic Magazines
Price
$0.10
Pages
52

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Gossip Leads to Murder!cover1pencils: Reed Crandall; inks: Reed CrandallCaptain Triumph
1Gossip Leads to Murder!comic story15script: Bill Woolfolk; pencils: Reed CrandallCaptain Triumph [Lance Gallant]; Kim Meredith; Walt Sullivan (villain, introduction, death); Machine-Gun Maloney (villain, introduction); Bobbie Frank (villain, introduction); Mr. Frank (villain, introduction)
2-comic story1script: Bernard Dibble; pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard DibbleHinky; Abalina
3The Gorillas and the Piratescomic story5
4-comic story1script: Bernard Dibble; pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard DibbleMolly the Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Beachy Butch
5-comic story1script: Bernard Dibble; pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard DibbleMolly the Model [Molly Maloney]; Pop Maloney; Pierre
6The Wealthy Sandwich Mancomic story6pencils: Alice Kirkpatrick; inks: Alice KirkpatrickHack O'Hara
7Lone Thief Nets Half-Million In Radiumcomic story5script: Klaus Nordling; pencils: Klaus Nordling; inks: Klaus NordlingPen Miller; Ciro (first appearance, villain)
8-comic story5script: Bernard Dibble; pencils: Bernard Dibble; inks: Bernard DibbleBeezy Bumble; Swami Ben Bimbo; Pete
9The Wolftext story2letters: typesetCaptain Triumph; The Wolf (first appearance, villain)
10Billy Billfoldcomic story6script: Al Stahl; pencils: Al Stahl; inks: Al StahlInkie; Billy Billfold (first appearance); Mr. Billfold (first appearance)

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