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Cover of Crack Comics (1940) #52

Crack Comics (1940) #52

Quality Comics 1940–1949 series Cover date Jan 1948

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About this issue

Crack Comics #52 (1940) is issue #52 of Quality Comics's Crack Comics (1940–1949), with a cover date of January 1948. Written by Jack Cole, Bernard Dibble, Klaus Nordling and others and drawn by Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Bernard Dibble and others.

Creators

Writers
Jack Cole, Bernard Dibble, Klaus Nordling, Al Stahl
Pencillers
Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Bernard Dibble, Klaus Nordling, Al Stahl
Inkers
Jack Cole, Reed Crandall, Bernard Dibble, Klaus Nordling, Al Stahl
Cover artist
Reed Crandall

The stories

“The Porcupine!”

Fresh from their adventure with a werewolf, Lance and Kim enter a town and meet the Porcupine, who wore a coat of killer quills that he can throw with great accuracy, as well as using his body to topple walls by throwing himself into them. The quills were charged with electricity from the villain's own body, a property which he acquired from stumbling into an electric chair at the penitentiary. When Captain Triumph emerges on the scene, a battle ensues and the Porcupine dies when he is short-circuited by water.

“Mighty Midget”

Pop's art criticism has a disastrous impact on sculptor De Chipstein's massive statue.

Molly fears Pop will ruin her attempt to impress a movie producer, so she sends him away on an errand.

Credits, characters and story details from the Grand Comics Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.