Crack Comics #29 is an issue of the series Crack Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1943.
Synopsis for Captain Triumph: "Captain Triumph Meets Spade the Ruthless"
Appearing in Captain Triumph: "Captain Triumph Meets Spade the Ruthless"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- A. Spade
- Z. Spade
Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Alias the Spider: "The Fly"
Wealthy theater owner Ted Tembroke is thrown to his death from the penthouse garden of his own theater-slash-skyscraper by a caped, costumed, disguised intruder, calling himself The Fly. Ted lands on the sidewalk, close to Tom Hallaway, who is just emerging from that evening's show and meeting Chuck his chauffeur. Ted lives just long enough to gasp out "The Fly! The Fly! The …" then dies. Luckily Tom has worn his Spider costume under his regular suit and luckily Chuck knows how to operate an elevator; they go straight to the penthouse, where they meet Ted's distraught daughter Doris. Doris shows Spider a threatening note from "The Fly," alluding to some unstated grievance from ten years earlier. Ted's business partner John Duke, half-owner of the Tembroke Theater, arrives, and has no helpful information to contribute. The Spider goes home and searches through his files, to figure out who held a grudge against Ted Tembroke from ten years ago; Chuck finds a newspaper clipping about a bad fall suffered by Deddo the Human Fly. So Tom and Chuck go visit Deddo, who is now a twisted cripple, and at first denies ever having been a daredevil acrobat, but his story breaks down quickly, and he admits to holding a grudge against Tembroke, whom he blamed for the accident that took him out of show business. But his atrophied arms are no longer capable of any wall-climbing, and The Spider starts to believe his claims of innocence.
Meanwhile at the penthouse, Doris is grieving over Ted's death, alone, next to the retaining wall around the penthouse garden. The Fly shows up, grabs her, and throws her over the wall. But she only falls one story before she's caught by The Spider, who is hanging on a rope outside a window, positioned very luckily under just the right spot to make this catch. He hands Doris off to Chuck through an open window, then climbs to the roof, and starts punching out and unmasking The Fly, who turns out to be Ted's partner John Duke. Duke can't really climb an entire building, and used a rope to get here from one story below, but he rallies up and charges at The Spider one more time, but gets punched in the face so hard that he flies backward, over the wall, and off the building.
Appearing in Alias the Spider: "The Fly"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Chuck, Hallaway's chauffeur
Antagonists:
- John Duke, The Fly (Apparent Death)
Other Characters:
- Deddo, formerly The Fly
- Ted Tembroke (Dies)
- Doris Tembroke
Locations:
- Tembroke Tower
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Black Condor: "The Author Wrote His Own Death Warrant"
Appearing in Black Condor: "The Author Wrote His Own Death Warrant"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Dr. Foster
- Wendy Foster
Antagonists:
- Ralph Drew
Other Characters:
- Heywood Bryant (Dies)
Locations:
- Washington DC
- The Swank Club
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Inkie: "Inkie Is a Comic Character the Size of Your Pinky..."
Inkie comes to life in the real world.
Appearing in Inkie: "Inkie Is a Comic Character the Size of Your Pinky..."
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Shut-Eye
Other Characters:
- Officer Sullivan
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Pen Miller: "The Oil Man"
Appearing in Pen Miller: "The Oil Man"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Chop Chu
Antagonists:
- Red Mandrill
- Buggsy
- Mousy
Other Characters:
- building superintendent at Pen's apartment house (Dies)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for Hack O'Hara: "The Leaches of Our Society"
Appearing in Hack O'Hara: "The Leaches of Our Society"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- gang of counterfeiters
Other Characters:
- Mark Palmer
- two unnamed scoldy society ladies
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
- Hack's taxicab
Synopsis for The Clock: "Who Done It!!"
Appearing in The Clock: "Who Done It!!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- "Big Ed" Gloyne, new City Treasurer
- Real name is Ed Glane
- Joe Glynn, City Editor, the Daily Mail
- Real name is Joe Glane
Other Characters:
- James Post, Publisher, the Daily Mail (Dies)
- "Smitty" Smith, writer, the Daily Mail (Dies)
- unnamed office boy, the Daily Mail
Locations:
- New York City
- the Daily Mail
Items:
Vehicles:
Notes
- The Black Condor's secret identity Tom Wright smokes cigarettes. His doctor, Doctor Foster smokes a pipe.
- The Spider wears no mask. The Spider's driver Chuck smokes cigarettes.
- Also featured in this issue of Crack Comics were:
- Molly the Model, by Bernard Dibble
- Rube Goldberg's Side Show, by Rube Goldberg
- Slap Happy Pappy: "Hey, Pappy! War's Bin Declared!", by Jack Cole
- "Lisbon Terror" (text story, featuring Eric Vale)
See Also
Links and References
Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.