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|image = Crack Comics 1.jpg

|caption = ''Crack Comics'' #1 (May 1940), artwork probably by Ed Cronin.

|schedule = various

|format = Anthology

|publisher = [[Quality Comics]]

|genre = crime, superhero, humor

|startyr = 1940

|startmo = May

|endyr = 1949

|endmo = Sept.

|date = May 1940 – Sept. 1949

|issues = 62

|main_char_team = [[Clock (comics)|The Clock]], [[Black Condor]], [[Captain Triumph]], [[Spider (DC Comics)|Alias the Spider]], [[Madame Fatal]], [[Jane Arden (comics)|Jane Arden]], Molly the Model, [[Red Torpedo]]

|writers =

|artists = [[Alfred Andriola]], [[George Brenner]], [[Gill Fox]], [[Jack Cole (artist)|Jack Cole]], [[Paul Gustavson]], [[Klaus Nordling]], [[Art Pinajian]]

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|editors = Ed Cronin, John Beardsley, [[Gill Fox]], [[George Brenner]]

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'''''Crack Comics''''' wasis an [[anthology]] [[comic book]] series published by [[Quality Comics]] during the [[Golden Age of Comic Books]].<ref name=Companion>{{cite book |last1=Koolman |first1=Mike |last2=Amash |first2=Jim |title=The Quality Companion |date=2011 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490373 |page=219}}</ref> It featured such characters as [[Clock (comics)|The Clock]], [[Black Condor]], [[Captain Triumph]], [[Spider (DC Comics)|Alias the Spider]], [[Madame Fatal]], [[Jane Arden (comics)|Jane Arden]], Molly the Model, and [[Red Torpedo]]. The title "crack" referred to "being at the top of one's form", like a "crack [[sharpshooter]]".<ref name="Steranko">[[Jim Steranko|Steranko, Jim]] (1972). ''The Steranko History of Comics 2''. Reading, Pennsylvania: Supergraphics. p. 92.</ref>

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