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Hit Comics 3

HIT COMICS #3

Cover Date: September 1940
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1940-07-03

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Cover Credits:
Art: Lou Fine


Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

ArtDan Zolnerowich
LetteringDan Zolnerowich
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Hercules

Supporting Character(s):

Villain(s):

Burns Koffin and his gang (first appearance for all; racketeers)

Location(s):

A large coastal city

Comment(s):

Zolnerowich credited as Gregg Powers.
Hercules can lift a car!


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Second Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWill Eisner
ArtCourtney Thompson
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

X-5

Villain(s):

Black Guard (first appearance for all; Nordicha's secret police)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Bilbao, Spain
Bothnia (first appearance; a small Baltic nation near Spain that is stealing armaments from the US)


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJohn Lindermayer
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Jack Doe
Jill Doe

Villain(s):

An unnamed gang (first appearance for all; get a gang member to pose as Jack's Aunt Agatha to frame the couple for robberies)

Comment(s):

Jack's real Aunt Agatha Pennybottom died in 1938.


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtCharles Nicholas
LetteringCharles Nicholas
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Red Bee

Supporting Character(s):

Tom Darrow

Villain(s):

Henry Graff and his gang (first appearance for all; a crooked construction company using city materials to build houses)

Location(s):

Superior City

Comment(s):

? and Charles Nicholas credited as B. H. Apiary.


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryS. M. Iger
ArtAlex Blum
LetteringAlex Blum
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Douglas Strange

Supporting Character(s):

Wendy Hale

Villain(s):

Rod Ling Low
Wing Low

Location(s):

London, England
Calcutta, India

Comment(s):

S. M. Iger and Alex Blum credited as S. M. Regi


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (5 Pages)

Credits:

StoryS. M. Iger
ArtAlex Blum
LetteringAlex Blum
EditingEd Cronin

Feature Character(s):

Neon the Unknown

Location(s):

North Pole
A tropical land deep in the ice (first appearance?; populated with savages and large reptiles; all destroyed)

Comment(s):

S. M. Iger and Alex Blum credited as Tagor Mokoy.


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