Hit Comics #55

(November 1948)

Quality Comics, 1940 Series

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Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
Indicia Frequency: bi-monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Comic Magazines
Brand: Quality Comic Group

Editing: George E. Brenner

Issue Notes

Index updated by Lou Mougin via the GCD Errors list, September 2009.

Kid Eternity / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils: Pete Riss
Inks: Pete Riss
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: superhero
Characters: Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; the Brute

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Kid Eternity / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script: Bill Woolfolk
Pencils: Pete Riss
Inks: Pete Riss
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: superhero
Characters: Kid Eternity; Mr. Keeper; Joe Grimm; Zorro; Porthos; The Brute (villain, introduction)

Indexer Notes

Writer credit from Woolfolk's paybook and Martin O'Hearn.

Her Highness / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Ernie Hart ?
Inks: Ernie Hart ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: humor; crime
Characters: Her Highness; Silk

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

Script: ?
Pencils: Klaus Nordling ?; Jack Cole ?
Inks: Klaus Nordling ?; Jack Cole ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Pearl Island, my eye!
Genre: adventure; humor
Characters: Bob Masters; Swab Decker

Indexer Notes

Original indexer had Klaus Nordling; Jack Cole suggested by Lou Mougin.

Peachy / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Bart Tumey
Inks: Bart Tumey
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: >>Sob!<< We're through, Beanie Brown!
Genre: humor; teen
Characters: Peachy Pitts (introduction); Beanie Brown

Sir Roger / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Bart Tumey (signed)
Inks: Bart Tumey (signed)
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Advertising Betterment Bureau?
Genre: humor
Characters: Sir Roger

Kid Eternity / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: ? (illustration)
Inks: ? (illustration)
Colors: ?
Letters: typeset

Genre: superhero
Characters: Vulcan; Cortez

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

Script: ?
Pencils: Alice Kirkpatrick
Inks: Alice Kirkpatrick
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

Genre: detective-mystery; adventure; crime
Characters: Betty Bates; Double-Cross [Wrecker Wright] (villain, intro); Johnny Jerome

Big Brother / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script: ?
Pencils: Mike Senich ?
Inks: Mike Senich ?
Colors: ?
Letters: ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text: Gee, it was nice of the driver to let us hitch...
Genre: adventure

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Table of Contents

0. Kid Eternity versus the Brute, Brains Against Brawn!
Kid Eternity
1. The Brute
Kid Eternity
2. Fountain of Youth
Her Highness
3. ["Pearl Island, my eye!"]
Bob and Swab
4. [">>Sob!<< We're through, Beanie Brown!"]
Peachy
5. ["Advertising Betterment Bureau?"]
Sir Roger
6. Wrath of the Gods
Kid Eternity
7. Double-Cross
Betty Bates
8. ["Gee, it was nice of the driver to let us hitch..."]
Big Brother

This issue was modified by, among others

Craig Delich
Bob Hughes
Edgar Loftin
Clint Maxwell
Mike Nielsen
Jim Van Dore
Jim Walls

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