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Issue: Hit Comics #22 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1942
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Issues: #22 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: 04/03/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 14 (13 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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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art credits verified on page 18 of 2011's Quality Companion from TwoMorrows, which shows Fox holding his original cover art for this issue.
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Make-Up for Murder

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]; Ah Choo; Johnson (introduction); Smithers (introduction); three un-named spies (villains, introduction for all)
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In Content Item: FlagThe Lou Fine Comics Treasury #[nn] published January 1991
as Make-Up for Murder [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Disclose Notes: Per Greg Theakston in The Lou Fine Comics Treasury (Pure Imagination, 1991 Series), the main figures are inked by Lou Fine.
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Case of the Cat's Skeleton

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (signed as Stanley Charlot)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Betty Bates; Jabez Crane (villain, introduction); Boho (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Peanuts and Spies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Bob Masters; Swab Decker
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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War!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation, war
Character(s): Comet Kelly (introduction); The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Silken Gang War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (District Attorney); Casey (villain, introduction); Franco (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: The Who's Who indicates that Toni Blum wrote this feature in 1941-42, and that Williams was an artist only.

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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Painless Dentist

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Prisoner of Von Kimmel

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: occult, superhero, war
Character(s): Ghost of Flanders ["Rip" Graves]; Von Kimmel (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Despite the menace of the Japanese after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Ghost battles the Nazi menace and even sings the lyrics from a 1940 song, "I Am an American".
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Pages: 7
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Totoya Adventure

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Strange Twins, The
Character(s): Doug Strange; Rod Strange; Kimmel (villain, introduction, death)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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The Coming of Captain Flagg

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: aviation
Character(s): Captain Flagg (a Marine, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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Accidental Murder

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): J. T. Flagg
Letterer(s): Typeset
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: I see my classmate is working in his printshop tonite!
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Pages: 1
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The Swordfish Strikes

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, war
Character(s): Ensign Jack Smith (introduction); The Japanese (villains)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
Disclose Notes: The Swordfish is his one-man submarine; super-graphic injury-to-eye panel.
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Bout with the Vichy French

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (signed as Lincoln Ross)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Character(s): Don Glory; Marko (villain, introduction); Andre (villain, introduction)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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