{"product_id":"the-clock-strikes-standard-color-edition","title":"THE CLOCK STRIKES  STANDARD COLOR EDITION","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE CLOCK is acknowledged as the first masked hero of comic books (1936). His secret identity is\u003cbr\u003e\nBrian O'Brien, a wealthy man of means. He fought against gangsters and dope dealers, murderers and\u003cbr\u003e\nthieves. He started in Funny Pages #6, and enjoyed runs in Feature Funnies (later Feature Comics) and\u003cbr\u003e\nCrack Comics. He was an outlaw of sorts, a Robin Hood who sometimes kept the money from a case\u003cbr\u003e\nto aid the poor, with his justifications written out in a letter to the police; he also often let the crooks\u003cbr\u003e\nand the police know exactly when he, THE CLOCK, would strike. Resourceful and inventive, his stories\u003cbr\u003e\nwere always something different from the mainstream.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe stories in this collection were harvested from Centaur Publications FUNNY PAGES #6-11, FUNNY\u003cbr\u003e\nPICTURE STORIES #1 \u0026amp;2 and DETECTIVE PICTURE STORIES #2 \u0026amp; 5. Centaur publications sold the rights\u003cbr\u003e\nof the Clock to Quality Comics in 1940. The ClockÕs adventures were then continued in QualityÕs\u003cbr\u003e\nFEATURE FUNNIES (which had a name change to FEATURE COMICS ) from issues #3 to 31 and then\u003cbr\u003e\nultimately in CRACK COMICS from issue #1 to 35., which are also included in this collection. The Clock\u003cbr\u003e\nsurvived two companies and five titles before his time in the Golden Age of comics ran out.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe use the best scans readily available but because these stories come from a multitude of old issues\u003cbr\u003e\nand different sources, the quality of the images is not consistent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RETRO COMIC REPRINTS","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44928968851617,"sku":"9798889019770","price":64.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/w44ekk4-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1747583546","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/the-clock-strikes-standard-color-edition","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}