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"Captain Triumph: "The Return of A. Spade"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

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Crack Comics #31 is an issue of the series Crack Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of October, 1943.

Synopsis for Captain Triumph: "The Return of A. Spade"


Appearing in Captain Triumph: "The Return of A. Spade"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • A. Spade (Dies)
    • Torpedo (arrested)
  • Carim Bombay (escapes)

Other Characters:

  • Ambassador Von Mark
  • Eric Peters
  • Peggy Von Mark

Locations:



Synopsis for Inkie: "Lightning"


Appearing in Inkie: "Lightning"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Al

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Lightning Junior
  • Lightning Mom (audible, but off-stage)

Locations:

  • Crack Comics Art Department
  • Tokyo

Items:

  • "Japanese Anti-Lightning Short-Circuiting Gadjet, made in USA"

Vehicles:

  • flying ash tray

Synopsis for The Clock: "Gun + Killer + Victim = Murder"

Joe Doe gets gunned down by a stick-up robber. Butch witnesses the murder and follows the killer to his home, then calls in the Clock. The killer tries to get rough with Butch, but that goes badly for him, and gets noisy, which draws in the Clock, who punches him out.

Appearing in The Clock: "Gun + Killer + Victim = Murder"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

  • robber

Other Characters:

  • Joe Doe (Dies)

Locations:

Synopsis for Hack O'Hara: "The Hot Swami"


Appearing in Hack O'Hara: "The Hot Swami"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Hot Swami
    • Ali

Other Characters:

  • FBI agent (Dies)
  • cop
  • more cops

Locations:

  • theater

Animals:

  • Leo, a lion

Vehicles:

  • O'Hara's Hack

Synopsis for Pen Miller: "Comics Imitate Life, and Vice Versa"


Appearing in Pen Miller: "Comics Imitate Life, and Vice Versa"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

  • Chop Chu, butler

Antagonists:

  • Goldy, convict (condemned)
    • Goldy's two hench morons (both die)
  • Benny, convict

Other Characters:

  • Prison Warden

Locations:

  • Prison
  • Poverty Hollow
  • Pelican Lake
  • Foxhole under Indian Rock

Synopsis for Perky: "On the Moon"


Appearing in Perky: "On the Moon"

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Antagonists:

Other Characters:

  • Mr. Man in the Moon
  • Mrs. Man in the Moon
  • Mr. Comet

Locations:


Items:

Vehicles:


Synopsis for Black Condor: "Elmer Briggs, United States Senator"


Appearing in Black Condor: "Elmer Briggs, United States Senator"

Featured Characters:

Antagonists:

  • Joe Logan, newspaper weasel
    • his gang
    • his fake expert witnesses
    • his impersonators

Other Characters:

  • Senator Elmer Briggs, from the Corn Belt
  • Senator Dan Bird

Locations:

Notes

  • This issue is the final golden age appearance of the Black Condor.
  • In Captain Triumph, Kim gets kidnapped. She also gets slapped around, a lot, by the villain. She also gets head-konked unconscious, with a pistol butt.
  • The Clock has gone back to wearing a Spirit-style domino mask.
  • Inkie
    • At first, in Crack Comics #28, Al was unaware of Inkie's existence, but in this issue, they converse.
    • Japanese soldiers follow Inkie's adventures in Crack Comics every month, and are big fans.
  • Also featured in this issue of Crack Comics were:



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