Crack Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1944.
Synopsis for Captain Triumph: "Case of the Screaming Deaths"
Appearing in Captain Triumph: "Case of the Screaming Deaths"
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- The Raven
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- Dr. Marion
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Synopsis for Pen Miller: "Swifty McGore's Alibi"
Appearing in Pen Miller: "Swifty McGore's Alibi"
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- Chop Chu
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- Swifty McGore
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Synopsis for Hack O'Hara: "Hack Ride to Hades"
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- Satan
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Synopsis for "Inkie"
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- Muggsy
- Sluggsy
- Buggsy
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Synopsis for "Beezy Bumble"
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Synopsis for The Clock: "Elmer Quipple and Moose Mangle"
Butch buys a mail-order ventriloquism course from Elmer Quipple, and it doesn't work, and she writes him a threatening letter. Elmer shows up in person to negotiate, but gets off to a very bad start in their first conversation, after which he hangs around without introducing himself. Elmer uses his extremely advanced ventriloquism skills to be an annoyance to everybody else and especially to Butch, with whose affections he keeps trifling. All of this gets in the way of the Clock and Butch's investigation into a series of jewel robberies perpetrated (it turns out) by one Moose Mangle, whom they eventually are able, with the mostly-inadvertent assistance of Elmer, to identify and confront and defeat. Elmer and Butch do not part on good terms.
Appearing in The Clock: "Elmer Quipple and Moose Mangle"
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- Moose Mangle
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- Moose Mangle's gang has a spray-can full of "amnesia gas".
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- At the end of this issue's The Clock story, Elmer Quipple knows where Butch Buchanan lives, knows that Brian O'Brien lives there, and knows that Butch works with The Clock, and has to have noticed that Brian and Clock are exactly the same size and shape.
- Also featured in this issue of Crack Comics were:
- Molly the Model, by Bernard Dibble
- Slap Happy Pappy, by Jack Cole
- Rube Goldberg's Side Show, by Rube Goldberg
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