Hit Comics #22

(June 1942)

Make-Up for Murder (Table of Contents: 1)

Stormy Foster / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Max Elkan

Inks

Max Elkan; Lou Fine (see notes)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]; Ah Choo; Johnson (introduction); Smithers (introduction); three un-named spies (villains, introduction for all)

Reprints

• in The Lou Fine Comics Treasury (Pure Imagination, 1991 series) (1991)

Indexer Notes

Per Greg Theakston in The Lou Fine Comics Treasury (Pure Imagination, 1991 Series), the main figures are inked by Lou Fine.

[Case of the Cat's Skeleton] (Table of Contents: 2)

Betty Bates / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

? (signed as Stanley Charlot)

Pencils

Al Bryant (signed as Stanley Charlot)

Inks

Al Bryant (signed as Stanley Charlot)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; crime

Characters

Betty Bates; Jabez Crane (villain, introduction); Boho (villain, introduction)

[Peanuts and Spies] (Table of Contents: 3)

Bob and Swab / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Klaus Nordling (signed as Nordling)

Pencils

Klaus Nordling (signed as Nordling)

Inks

Klaus Nordling (signed as Nordling)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; humor

Characters

Bob Masters; Swab Decker

War! (Table of Contents: 4)

Comet Kelly / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Vern Henkel (signed as V Henkel)

Pencils

Vern Henkel (signed as V Henkel)

Inks

Vern Henkel (signed as V Henkel)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

aviation; war

Characters

Comet Kelly (introduction); The Japanese (villains)

[The Silken Gang War] (Table of Contents: 5)

The Red Bee / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Toni Blum (signed as B. H. Apiary)

Pencils

Witmer Williams (signed as B. H. Apiary)

Inks

Witmer Williams (signed as B. H. Apiary)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (District Attorney); Casey (villain, introduction); Franco (villain, introduction)

[Painless Dentist] (Table of Contents: 6)

Dan Tootin / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Cole

Pencils

Jack Cole

Inks

Jack Cole

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

humor; science fiction

[Prisoner of Von Kimmel] (Table of Contents: 7)

Ghost of Flanders / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

George Brenner (signed as Wayne Reid)

Pencils

George Brenner (signed as Wayne Reid)

Inks

George Brenner (signed as Wayne Reid)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

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".

[Totoya Adventure] (Table of Contents: 8)

Strange Twins, The / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

S. M. Iger (signed as S. M. Regi)

Pencils

Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)

Inks

Alex Blum (signed as S. M. Regi)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure

Characters

Doug Strange; Rod Strange; Kimmel (villain, introduction, death)

Keywords

Nazis

[The Coming of Captain Flagg] (Table of Contents: 9)

Captain Flagg / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Toni Blum (signed as Anthony Blum)

Pencils

Alex Koda

Inks

Alex Koda

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

aviation; war

Characters

Captain Flagg (a Marine, introduction)

Keywords

The Japanese

Accidental Murder (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

J. T. Flagg

Letters

Typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Tommy Tinkle / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Arthur Beeman (signed as Arthur Beeman)

Pencils

Arthur Beeman (signed as Arthur Beeman)

Inks

Arthur Beeman (signed as Arthur Beeman)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I see my classmate is working in his printshop tonite!

Genre

humor; fantasy-supernatural

[The Swordfish Strikes] (Table of Contents: 12)

Swordfish / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

Fred Guardineer ? (signed as Perry Scope)

Pencils

Fred Guardineer (signed as Perry Scope)

Inks

Fred Guardineer (signed as Perry Scope)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

adventure; war

Characters

Ensign Jack Smith (introduction); The Japanese (villains)

Keywords

The Swordfish

Indexer Notes

The Swordfish is his one-man submarine; super-graphic injury-to-eye panel.

[Bout with the Vichy French] (Table of Contents: 13)

Don Glory / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

? (signed as Lincoln Ross)

Pencils

Art Peddy (signed as Lincoln Ross)

Inks

Art Peddy (signed as Lincoln Ross)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

sports; adventure

Characters

Don Glory; Marko (villain, introduction); Andre (villain, introduction)