Crack Comics

[1] It featured such characters as The Clock, Black Condor, Captain Triumph, Alias the Spider, Madame Fatal, Jane Arden, Molly the Model, and Red Torpedo.

[2] Notable contributors to Crack Comics included Alfred Andriola, George Brenner, Gill Fox, Jack Cole, Paul Gustavson, Klaus Nordling, and Art Pinajian.

[2] "The Clock", as well as such newspaper strip reprints as "Rube Goldberg's Side Show", "Jane Arden", and "Ned Brant", moved over from Quality's Feature Comics.

[2] The syndicated newspaper strip reprints "Jane Arden" and "Ned Brant" disappeared during this period, as well as such recurring features as "Black Condor", "Don Q", and "Snappy".

As comics readers' tastes changed in the years following World War II, Quality publisher Arnold responded.

Crack Comics #5 (Sept. 1940), first use of the "Quality Comic Group" logo (to right of "COMICS"). Cover art by Gill Fox .