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Cover: Gill Fox
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Crack Comics #16

Sep 1941 · Quality Comics · 0.10 USD
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Crack Comics #16 is an anthology featuring multiple heroes. "The Black Condor: The Man Who Flies" depicts the hero battling a sunken U-boat; with aid from thousands of fish, he raises the vessel to the surface to prevent enemy forces from retrieving it. In "Alias the Spider," the Spider confronts a villain plotting to exploit a young heir and throw the girl into a dark pit, but rescues her and thwarts the criminal scheme. "The Clock" features the hero investigating a legend in Mu involving bearded Hindu men seeking bloodstones; Stanton battles the criminals and their leader, ultimately shooting them down as they attempt to escape.

Contains 15 stories
The Ghost-Gun Killer
9 pp · Superhero
Jasper Crow (villain)the Ghost-Gun Killer (villain, introduction)

When Jasper Crow orchestrates a scheme to force the sale of a mining company through murder, the Black Condor—in his civilian identity as Senator Tom Wright—infiltrates the villain's operation and uncovers a deadly plot to electrocute thousands of workers. Racing against time, the flying hero must stop both Crow's henchmen and the mysterious Ghost-Gun Killer, a sharpshooter armed with a lethal rifle rigged to trigger a catastrophic electrical trap.

Untitled Humor story
2 pp · Humor
The Red Torpedo vs. the Black Shark
5 pp · Superhero
The Black Shark (villain)

A former naval captain and his flying torpedo craft find themselves pitted against the villainous Black Shark, who captures an admiral and demands a ransom of secret military maps. When the Red Torpedo agrees to a dangerous exchange on a remote island, unexpected allies converge on Cannibal Cay to turn the tables on the Shark and his crew.

The Sabotaged Submarine
5 pp · Superhero
The Tobacco Juice Spitter
1 pp · Humor
The Outlaws of Jupiter
5 pp · Science Fiction
Blackbeard (first appearancevillain)One-Arm Ganz (first appearancevillain)Patch-Eye Tork (first appearancevillain)Half-Face McGurk (first appearancevillain)a girl (first appearancevillain)

Rock Braddon of the Space Legion infiltrates a gang of criminals at Jupiter's freight rocket port by posing as the mysterious stranger "Argo," only to discover that their leader Blackbeard—along with One-Arm Ganz, Patch-Eye Tork, Half-Face McGurk, and a girl—are planning to seize a shipment of ray guns as part of a larger scheme to control the entire port. When Blackbeard learns that Argo is a spy for the Space Legion, the confrontation reaches its climax at the docks, where the truth behind Braddon's infiltration and the outlaws' fate are finally revealed.

Untitled Drama story
3 pp · Drama
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Death at Rustling Willow
6 pp · Superhero
Jean Horton (introduction)Sutton (villain, introduction)Pierre (villain, introduction, death)
Untitled Sports story
4 pp · Sports
The Phony Radio Beam
6 pp · Aviation
Chuck Bolton (first appearance)Captain Schloss (first appearancevillaindeath)
The Five Bloodstones of Mu
5 pp · Superhero
Basil (first appearancevillaindeath)
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
The Revenge of Bat Nillon
7 pp · Detective-Mystery, Superhero
Bat Nillon (first appearancevillain)

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Raw (Good) $47
CGC 9.6 · 1 in census $4,210
CGC 9.4 none in existence
CGC 9.2 none in existence
CGC 9.0 none in existence
CGC 8.5 none in existence
CGC 8.0 · 1 in census $638
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CGC 7.5 $609
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $450*
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $324*
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 · 2 in census $275
CGC 4.5 none in existence
CGC 4.0 · 1 in census $203
CGC 3.5 none in existence
CGC 3.0 none in existence
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 none in existence
CGC 1.0 none in existence
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $57*
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Cast · 16 characters

Full credits

artist, inker Lou Fine
cover pencils, inks Gill Fox

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Reprinted in Special Edition Series #2 (1974)

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