I'll rejoin Lance, and Captain Triumph will settle everybody's hash! 
Crack Comics #42 is an issue of the series Crack Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1946.
Synopsis for Captain Triumph: "All that Glitters Is Not Gold!"
Redfue sells Biff a fake gold mine but it turns out to have real gold. Redfue and his gang try to get the deed back, and do some hostage taking in the process, grabbing Kim Meredith, which brings Captain Triumph down on them. One rescue, one escape, and one short knife fight later, they're out of business.
Appearing in Captain Triumph: "All that Glitters Is Not Gold!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Redfue
- his gang
- his gang
Synopsis for Pen Miller: "Cartoons Are Lies?"
Appearing in Pen Miller: "Cartoons Are Lies?"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Chop Chu
- Miller's boss
Antagonists:
- Mr. Dunger, Cross-Country Insurance Company
- Slade
- Daily Argus, sleazy rival newspaper
Other Characters:
- little old lady with handgun
Locations:
- newspaper office
Synopsis for Hack O'Hara: "The Tigress"
Appearing in Hack O'Hara: "The Tigress"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- The Tigress (First appearance)
- Slick (dead)
- Dan
- other thug
- Jarby, Dan's boss
Other Characters:
- motorcycle cop
Locations:
- New York City
- 147 Tolliver Street
Vehicles:
- O'Hara's Taxi
Synopsis for Molly the Model: "Jean Francois Beaucoup Barleduc Pierre Poupou"
Appearing in Molly the Model: "Jean Francois Beaucoup Barleduc Pierre Poupou"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- A.P. Maloney, Molly's grifter daddy
Other Characters:
- Jean Francois Beaucoup Barleduc Pierre Poupou, painter
- Ted, model
Synopsis for Floogy the Fiji: "The Magic Words"
Appearing in Floogy the Fiji: "The Magic Words"
Featured Characters:
- Floogy the Fiji
Supporting Characters:
- Fuzzy
Antagonists:
- cannibal witch imprisoned in the mystical Bone of Contention
Locations:
Items:
- Bone of Contention
Synopsis for Beezy: "The Haunted House Hassle"
Appearing in Beezy: "The Haunted House Hassle"
Featured Characters:
- Bertram "Beezy" Bumble
Supporting Characters:
- John P. Bumble, Beezy's dad
- Beezy's mom
- Betty Bumble, Beezy's sister
Antagonists:
- Scroogewilly, ex-landlord
Other Characters:
- buckboard driver
- Battie Bumble, Beezy's dad's uncle
- brawny butler
Locations:
- big haunted house out in the country
- Binggimville
Vehicles:
- horse-drawn buckboard
Synopsis for Inkie: "The Chicken Adventure"
Appearing in Inkie: "The Chicken Adventure"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Big Bear
Other Characters:
- family of Inkie-sized chickens
Locations:
- downstream from Inkie's home town
Notes
- Beezy: In the 7th panel on the 6th page of this issue's story, Beezy's great uncle Battie calls him "Bertram".
- Captain Triumph: "All that Glitters Is Not Gold!" was reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #18.
- In this story, Lance gets wounded in a knife fight, then joins with Michael to become Captain Triumph, then later becomes Lance again, with no sign of his former wound.
- At the end of this episode, Lance, Kim, and Biff are co-owners of a gold mine, or at least, of a good place to dig one.
- Hack O'Hara: The Tigress introduced in this issue's story is not the same as the Tigress (Quality Universe). This Tigress has made a fortune by holding mobsters for ransom.
- Also featured in this issue of Crack Comics were:
- Slap Happy Pappy, by Paul Gustavson
- Kiki Kelly, by Bernard Dibble
- "Magic Turnabout" (text story, featuring Eric Vale) by Larry Spain
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