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Crack Comics #30 (1943)
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In a whimsical 1943 humor short from Crack Comics #30, the comic strip character Inkie finds himself in a panic when a black ink shortage threatens to halt all artistic work at the Crack Comics studio. With the help of the eccentric scientist Arthritis, who concocts a bizarre new ink from unlikely ingredients, Inkie and a newly animated wild man villain stumble into a surreal situation where reality and comic pages blur.
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