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''Crack Comics'' started off as a monthly anthology of 68 pages, often with as many as 15 features. At first edited by [[Ed Cronin]], much of its material was originally "packaged" by the [[Eisner and Iger Studio]].<ref name="Steranko" /> "[[Clock (comics)|The Clock]]," as well as such newspaper strip reprints as "[[Rube Goldberg]]'s Side Show," "[[Jane Arden (comics)|Jane Arden]]," and "[[Ned Brant]]," moved over from Quality's ''[[Feature Comics]]''.
The first use of the publisher name "Quality Comic Group" was on the cover of ''Crack Comics'' #5 (Sept. 1940).<ref name=chs>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927212535/http://www.chs.org/comics/quality.htm|archivedate=September 27, 2007|title=Quality Comic Group: A Brief History|publisher=[[Connecticut Historical Society]]|url=http://www.chs.org/comics/quality.htm|
With issue #26 (Nov. 1942), at the height of [[World War II]], the title dropped down to a bi-monthly schedule due to wartime paper shortages; and with issue #33 (Spring 1944) it became quarterly, also reducing its page-count to 60. It was around this time that publisher Arnold dropped Eisner & Iger as a "packager" and began producing much of the material in-house.<ref name="Steranko" /> The syndicated newspaper strip reprints "[[Jane Arden (comics)|Jane Arden]]" and "Ned Brant" disappeared during this period, as well as such recurring features as "[[Black Condor]]," "[[Don Q (comics)|Don Q]]," and "[[Snappy (comics)|Snappy]]."
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