Digital Comic Museum - Hit Comics 004 (paper)


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Issue: #4
Published: October 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: S. M. Iger
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
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.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Neon the Unknown
Credits:	Pencils: Lou Fine \| Inks: Lou Fine
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Neon [Tom Corbet]

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Future Society
Featuring:	The Red Bee
Credits:	Pencils: Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed) \| Inks: Charles Nicholas [as B. H. Apiary] (signed)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (Assistant District Attorney) Vanger (introduction) Dr. Marah (villain) Lizak (villain)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Budapest Crime Syndicate
Featuring:	The Strange Twins
Synopsis:	Rod and Doug match wits over stolen jewels. This time in Budapest.
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger [as S. M. Regi] \| Pencils: Alex Blum \| Inks: Alex Blum
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Rod Strange (villain) Doug Strange Wing Low

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Case of the Crooked Eights
Featuring:	Betty Bates
Synopsis:	Betty wins her case via a gun battle in the courtroom.
Credits:	Script: Bob Powell [as Stanley Charlot] \| Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Betty Bates (intro) Roland Lawson (villain) Harvey Barth (villain) Fred Conlin (intro)

Comic Story (6 pages)	Assignment: Tradheim
Featuring:	X-5 Super Agent
Credits:	Script: ? [as Cary Weyt] \| Pencils: Charles Sultan \| Inks: Charles Sultan
Genre:	Spy
Characters:	X-5 Von Setz (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Modern Art Robbery
Featuring:	Jack and Jill
Credits:	Script: ? [as Lowell Riggs] \| Pencils: John Lindermayer ? \| Inks: John Lindermayer ?
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Jack Doe Jill Doe Squee (villain)

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Overland Bus Mystery
Featuring:	Hercules
Credits:	Script: ? [as Greg Powers] \| Pencils: Dan Zolnerowich \| Inks: Dan Zolnerowich
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Hercules William Onslow (villain) Pike (villain) Blacky (villain)

Comic Story (5 pages)	Black Starred Skull
Featuring:	Old Witch
Credits:	Script: ? [as Pierre Winter] \| Pencils: John Celardo \| Inks: John Celardo
Genre:	Horror-suspense
Characters:	The Old Witch

Comic Story (5 pages)	King of the Rockmen
Featuring:	Blaze Barton
Credits:	Script: ? [as Roy Talon] \| Pencils: Maurice Gutwirth ? \| Inks: Maurice Gutwirth ?
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Blaze Barton Betty The Rockmen (villains) Their King (Intro)

Text Story (2 pages)	Madman's Castle, or, The Living Ghost
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum (Toni Boone) \| Letters: Typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	Cockroach Detail
Featuring:	Bob and Swab
Credits:	Script: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Pencils: Klaus Nordling (signed) \| Inks: Klaus Nordling
Genre:	Adventure Humor

Comic Story (2 pages)	Antigravitol
Featuring:	Tommy Tinkle
Credits:	Script: ? [as Sandy Klauz]
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Tommy Tinkle Mary Lou Sniff (Intro, Villain)

Comic Story (7 pages)	The Transatlantic Bridge
Featuring:	Neon the Unknown
Credits:	Script: S. M. Iger [as Tagor Maroy] (signed) \| Pencils: Alex Blum \| Inks: Alex Blum
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Neon [Tom Corbet] President Franklin D. Roosevelt Dictator Of Kampfland (villain, Introduction)

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