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| Trivia
| - * The Spider's driver Chuck smokes cigarettes.
* The Black Condor's secret identity Tom Wright smokes cigarettes. His doctor, Doctor Foster smokes a pipe.
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| - Alfred Andriola
- Charles Sultan
- Clark Williams
- Klaus Nordling
- Fran Matera
- Joey Cavallo
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| Inker1
| - Alfred Andriola
- Charles Sultan
- Clark Williams
- Klaus Nordling
- Fran Matera
- Joey Cavallo
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| Writer1
| - Paul Gustavson
- George Brenner
- Klaus Nordling
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| Penciler1
| - Alfred Andriola
- Charles Sultan
- Clark Williams
- Klaus Nordling
- Fran Matera
- Joey Cavallo
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| Writer1
| - Paul Gustavson
- George Brenner
- Klaus Nordling
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| StoryTitle
| - Alias the Spider:
- Black Condor:
- Captain Triumph meets Spade the Ruthless
- Hack O'Hara:
- Pen Miller:
- The Clock:
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| - Alfred Andriola
- Charles Sultan
- Clark Williams
- Klaus Nordling
- Fran Matera
- Joey Cavallo
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| Appearing
| - Featured Characters:
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- Featured Characters:
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Supporting Characters:
* Dr. Foster
* Wendy Foster
Adversaries:
* Ralph Drew
Other Characters:
* Heywood Bryant
Locations:
* Washington DC
** The Swank Club
Items:
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Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
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Supporting Characters:
* Butch Buchanan
Adversaries:
* "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
* "Smitty" Smith, writer, the Daily Mail
* unnamed office boy, the Daily Mail
Locations:
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** the Daily Mail
Items:
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Vehicles:
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Supporting Characters:
* Chuck, Hallaway's chauffeur
Adversaries:
* John Duke, The Fly
Other Characters:
* Deddo, formerly The Fly
* Ted Tembroke
* Doris Tembroke
Locations:
* Tembroke Tower
Items:
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Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
* Pen Miller
Supporting Characters:
* Chop Chu
Adversaries:
* Red Mandrill
* Buggsy
* Mousy
Other Characters:
* building superintendent at Pen's apartment house
Locations:
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Items:
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Vehicles:
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- Featured Characters:
* Hack O'Hara
Supporting Characters:
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Adversaries:
* gang of counterfeiters
Other Characters:
* Mark Palmer
* two unnamed scoldy society ladies
Locations:
* Washington DC
Items:
*
Vehicles:
* Hack's taxicab
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| - * Crack Comics #29 entire issue online
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| Synopsis
| - 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.
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| Notes
| - * The Spider wears no mask.
* Also appearing in this issue of Crack Comics were:
** Molly the Model: , by Bernard Dibble
** Inkie: , by Al Stahl
** Lisbon Terror , by Eric Vale
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| - Lucky I wore my Spider costume under my regular suit!
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