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Issue: Hit Comics #21 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #21 of 65 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagQuality Comics
Brand: Quality Comic GroupView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Comic Magazines, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/04/1942
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
Disclose Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1942, New Series, Vol. 37, No. 2.
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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
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Max Elkan
Inker(s): Max Elkan
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Stormy Foster
Character(s): The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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King Korman's Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Max Elkan [as Maxwell Elkan] (signed)
Inker(s): Max Elkan [as Maxwell Elkan] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Stormy Foster
Character(s): The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]; Ah Choo; Count Manfred Von Grebe (villain); Heinz (villain); Manuel (villain); Ortiz (villain); Jose (villain); Hanz (villain); King Korman (villain)
Synopsis: On a delivery to nearby Death Valley, Foster and Ah Choo find a dying man and decide to trail his killers.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
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Tootin's Goldfish

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jack Cole
Penciller(s): Jack Cole
Inker(s): Jack Cole
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Dan Tootin
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Dutch Guiana 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
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Pages: 5
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The Whissler Building Case

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Stanley Charlot]
Penciller(s): Al Bryant
Inker(s): Al Bryant
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Betty Bates
Character(s): Betty Bates; Dode Van Huysen; Moe; John Holdes
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Arthur Beeman (signed)
Penciller(s): Arthur Beeman (signed)
Inker(s): Arthur Beeman
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Tommy Tinkle
First Line: A hike through the countryside is lots of fun in the springtime
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Pages: 1
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Captured by Axel Kopf

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): George Brenner [as Wayne Reid]
Penciller(s): George Brenner
Inker(s): George Brenner
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, war
Feature(s): Ghost of Flanders
Character(s): Ghost of Flanders [Rip Graves]; Axel Kopf (introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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Blacky Meyer Is Back in Town

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Toni Blum
Penciller(s): Witmer Williams [as B. H. Apiary] (signed)
Inker(s): Witmer Williams [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] (District Attorney); Blacky Meyer (villain)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who indicates that Toni Blum wrote this feature in 1941-42.

Artist verification for Williams by the Who's Who. The strip was signed B. H. Apiary, which is a by-line on the strip and not a real person.
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The Top-Hatters Mob

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; The Top-Hatters Mob; Nevins
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Fluid of Fury

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Merton Holmes]
Penciller(s): Henry Kiefer
Inker(s): Henry Kiefer
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Lion Boy
Character(s): Wangalo; Mahli; Mary Carney; John Carney
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Pages: 5
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Death Bowls a Strike

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Hugo F. Flynn
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Three-Ring Chaos

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Lou Ferstadt
Inker(s): Lou Ferstadt
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Hercules
Character(s): Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Daniel Nichols (circus owner); Laura Nichols (Daniel's daughter); Bozo (circus clown); Red Jake Mazola (villain)
Synopsis: Hercules came upon a circus and helps protect its owner from a mobster.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Credits suggested by Jerry Bails Who's Who.

Last appearance.
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Cloud of Doom

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Lincoln Ross]
Penciller(s): Arthur Peddy
Inker(s): Arthur Peddy
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): Don Glory
Character(s): Don Glory
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9

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