Red Torpedo
James Lockhard was a Navy engineer who invented an amazing one-man submarine he called, “the Red Torpedo.”
The Spider
In the early 1940s, Tom Hallaway was a millionaire playboy and big game hunter who used his skills to prey on gangsters and racketeers as “the Spider.”
Madame Fatal
In order to infiltrate criminal gangs, as well as locate his kidnapped daughter, Richard Stanton dressed as an old woman…
Bulletman
When his father was killed in 1940, Jim Barr hoped to avenge him by joining the police force. However, he didn’t pass the physical, so he took a job in ballistics. While there, he invented a serum that increased his muscle mass and brain mass.
He also built a bullet-shaped “gravity regulator helmet” which allowed him to fly.
Crack Comics #1
May 1940 (March 27, 1940)
$0.10
Alias the Spider
(The Sign of the Cricket)
10 pages
Writer: Paul Gustavson
Artist: Paul Gustavson
Editor: Edward C. Cronin
Crack Comics #1
May 1940 (March 27, 1940)
$0.10
Red Torpedo
(Origin of the Red Torpedo)
5 pages
Writer: Henry Carl Kiefer
Artist: Henry Carl Kiefer
Editor: Edward C. Cronin
Crack Comics #1
May 1940 (March 27, 1940)
$0.10
Madame Fatal
(Origin of Madam Fatal)
5 pages
Writer: Arthur A. Pinajian
Artist: Arthur A. Pinajian
Editor: Edward C. Cronin
Nickel Comics #1
May 17, 1940 (May 3, 1940)
$0.05
(The Origin of Bulletman)
11 pages
Writer: Bill Parker
Artist: Jon Small
Editor: Bill Parker
In March of 1940, Hitler and Mussolini met at Bremer Pass in the Alps to form an alliance against France the the U.K.
In the United States, Fawcett Publications, Incorporated published the first of eight issues of a bi-monthly comic, Nickel Comics. As the title says, it cost only five cents, half the price of most comics.
At DC, Batman got his own title. Batman #1 had a cover date of Spring 1940, and hit newsstands on April 25, 1940.
Early versions of The Joker and Catwoman (then called, “The Cat”) first appeared in Batman #1.
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