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| Very nice Reed Crandall cover. |
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| worth it for the title alone. i love this place. |
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| Additional Information |
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| Publication | March 1949 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
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| Cover | A Cargo of Mystery! |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | A Cargo of Mystery! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Lance, Kim, and Biff take a ferry that has car-stealing pirates on board. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Capt. Ruby Conn (first appearance; villain); Kim Meredith; Biff Banks; Pete; Spike; John; Grace; Gregg |
| Notes | Title from cover.
We formerly credited the inks to Reed Crandall, but that attribution denied by Crandall expert Roger Hill. |
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| Synopsis | Pappy has lost his glasses. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pappy |
| Notes | Last appearance in Crack Comics. Slap Happy Pappy moves to Plastic Man (Quality Comics, 1943 Series), starting with #17. |
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| Comic Story | Off To See the World (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Floogy wants to get away from Fiji and see the world. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Floogy the Fiji; Fuzzy; Champ; Chump |
| Notes | Last appearance of the Floogy the Fiji feature. |
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| Synopsis | At the beach, Molly mistakes a toy vendor for a producer. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Molly the Model [Molly Maloney] |
| Notes | This is a virtually identical premise to a "Molly the Model" strip in Crack Comics 43 (July 1946). |
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| Synopsis | Pop advises a man to serenade the woman he loves, only to have the man show up that night with a tuba to serenade his daughter Molly. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pop Maloney; Molly Maloney |
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| Comic Story | Girl in the Rain (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Hack helps a kidnapped society gal. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Hack O'Hara; Louise Fairfield (first appearance); Dot (first appearance); Tiger Martin (first appearance; villain); Joe |
| Notes | Formerly credited to Al Bryant. |
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| Comic Story | Wong Fu and the Opium Smugglers (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Chop's friend Wong Fu is arrested for opium. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Pen Miller; Wong Fu (first appearance); Rats (first appearance; villain); Pug (first appearance; villain); Muscles (first appearance; villain); Chop; Inspector Hunter |
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| Synopsis | Beezy tries to impress his girlfriend Binnie's mother but only makes matters worse. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Beezy Bumble; Binnie Brumphy; Mrs. Brumphy; Noxia Brumphy; J.F. Brumphy; Bertram Bumble |
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| Text Story | A Whiff of Perfume (1.67 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man wants Lance to deliver a bottle of perfume into the US. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Julio Mendez; Biff Banks; Kim Meredith |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Louie's Radio Mob (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A ham radio crook commits crimes with radio. |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Inkie; Louie; Joe; Mike |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: J. E. Smith (photo) |
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| Credits | Pencils:? (photograph) | Inks:? (photograph) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Back cover. |
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