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Crack Comics
Quality Comics · 1940–1949 · 62 issues
About the series
From 1940 to 1949, Quality Comics’ Crack Comics delivered a brisk, 62-issue run of Golden Age pulp heroics, anchored by the kinetic pencils of Lou Fine and Reed Crandall alongside writer-artist Bernard Dibble. The series showcased a memorable rogue’s gallery of vigilantes and adventurers, including the winged Black Condor, the time-obsessed Clock, and the cross-dressing avenger Madam Fatal, whose gender-bending premise made the title a standout in early superhero history. A fast-paced, visually dynamic anthology, it remains a key artifact of Quality’s pre-Code era, blending crime-fighting grit with the wild creativity that defined the dawn of American comics.