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Issue: Hit Comics #5

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Publication Date: November 1940

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Detail

Issues: #5 of 65 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Quality Comics

Brand: Quality Comic Group

Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines, Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/04/1940

Volume: none

Pages: 68

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.10 USD

Indicia Frequency:

Content Items: 13 (12 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): S. M. Iger

Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was on-going series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (13 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): Lou Fine

Inker(s): Lou Fine

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Red Bee

Character(s): The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh]

First Line: The Red Bee plunges his big knife into the killer fish!

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

Ace Comics Presents #4 published November 1987
as Lou Fine Cover Gallery - Part 2 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Classic cover.

Murder on the Assembly Line

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Greg Powers] (signed)

Penciller(s): Dan Zolnerowich

Inker(s): Dan Zolnerowich

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Hercules

Character(s): Hercules; Wolf Stead (no actual appearance, villain, introduction); Judd Haskin (introduction)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Murder of a Peddler

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Bob Powell ? [as Stanley Charlot]

Penciller(s): Nick Cardy

Inker(s): Nick Cardy

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Betty Bates

Character(s): Betty Bates; Jerry Corona (villain, introduction)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

The Emerald of Egypt

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): S. M. Iger [as S. M. Regi]

Penciller(s): Alex Blum

Inker(s): Alex Blum

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure

Feature(s): The Strange Twins

Character(s): Doug Strange; Rod Strange (villain); Anitra (intro); her father (intro); her fiance (intro)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

The Panama Canal Incident

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Klaus Nordling

Penciller(s): Klaus Nordling

Inker(s): Klaus Nordling

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: adventure, humorous

Feature(s): Bob and Swab

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Assignment: Quanalla

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Cary Weyt]

Penciller(s): Charles Sultan

Inker(s): Charles Sultan

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: espionage

Feature(s): G-5 Super Agent

Character(s): G-5; Gen. Gorzel (introduction); Jean Carrolla (introduction)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

Notes: Feature changed title from X-5 to G-5.

Flatboat No. 96

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed)

Inker(s): Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Red Bee

Character(s): The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh]; Number 26 (villain, introduction); un-named gangsters (villains, introduction for all)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The House on the Moors

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Pierre Winters]

Penciller(s): John Celardo

Inker(s): John Celardo

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: occult

Feature(s): Old Witch

Character(s): The Old Witch

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Voyage to Mars

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Roy Talon]

Penciller(s): Maurice Gutwirth ?

Inker(s): Maurice Gutwirth ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: science fiction

Feature(s): Blaze Barton

Character(s): Blaze Barton; Betty; The Martians (villains, introductions); their king (villain, introduction)

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 5

Ghosts of the Unborn To-Morrow

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Toni Blum (Toni Boone)

Letterer(s): Typeset

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Wild Goose Chase with a Real Goose

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Lowell Riggs]

Penciller(s): John Lindermayer ?

Inker(s): John Lindermayer ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Jack and Jill

Character(s): Jack Doe; Jill Doe; Suli (a cook, introduction); a Chinese crimelord (villain, introduction)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The Invisibility Cloak

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ? [as Sandy Klauz]

Penciller(s): Arthur Beeman ?

Inker(s): Arthur Beeman ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Tommy Tinkle

Character(s): Tommy Tinkle; Mary Lou; Sniff (villain)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

In a Metropolis of Madmen

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): S. M. Iger [as Tagor Maroy] (signed)

Penciller(s): Alex Blum ?

Inker(s): Alex Blum ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Neon the Unknown

Character(s): Neon [Tom Corbet]; Foreign agents (villains, introduction for all)

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: It's a good bet that Blum did the art on this story as the only other artist known to have done it was Lou Fine in 1941 and his style is easily recognizable.