Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-02-04
Editing: S. M. Iger (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Hit Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #21 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Stormy Foster / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Max Elkan (sourced) (see notes)
Inks:
Max Elkan (sourced) (see notes)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]

Indexer Notes

Saltarella, via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8165), notes that the cover artwork greatly resembles the artwork in the story with the same character that is signed by Elkan.

Issue Data

Indexer 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.

[King Korman's Castle]
(Table of Contents: 1)

Stormy Foster / comic story / 11 pages

Script:
? [as Maxwell Elkan] (signed) (see notes)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]; Ah Choo; Count Manfred Von Grebe (villain); Heinz (villain); Manuel (villain); Ortiz (villain); Jose (villain); Hanz (villain); King Korman (villain)
Synopsis:
On a delivery to nearby Death Valley, Foster and Ah Choo find a dying man and decide to trail his killers.

Indexer Notes

While the only signature on the story is "Maxwell Elkan", implying he is the writer and artist, there is no historical evidence that Max Elkan ever was a writer.

[Tootin's Goldfish]
(Table of Contents: 2)

Dan Tootin / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; science fiction

[The Dutch Guiana Incident]
(Table of Contents: 3)

Bob and Swab / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; humor

[The Whissler Building Case]
(Table of Contents: 4)

Betty Bates / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Stanley Charlot (signed) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; crime
Characters:
Betty Bates; Dode Van Huysen; Moe; John Holdes

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents: 5)

Tommy Tinkle / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; fantasy-supernatural
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A hike through the countryside is lots of fun in the springtime

[Captured by Axel Kopf]
(Table of Contents: 6)

Ghost of Flanders / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Ghost of Flanders [Rip Graves]; Axel Kopf (introduction)

[Blacky Meyer Is Back in Town]
(Table of Contents: 7)

The Red Bee / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (District Attorney); Blacky Meyer (villain)

[The Top-Hatters Mob]
(Table of Contents: 8)

The Strange Twins / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
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; The Top-Hatters Mob; Nevins

[The Fluid of Fury]
(Table of Contents: 9)

Lion Boy / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Merton Holmes (signed) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:jungle; adventure
Characters:
Wangalo; Mahli; Mary Carney; John Carney

Indexer Notes

Final appearance.

Death Bowls a Strike
(Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
Hugo F. Flynn (credited) (house name)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:crime; sports

[Three-Ring Chaos]
(Table of Contents: 11)

Hercules / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
Gregg Powers (signed) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Hercules [Joe Hercules]; Daniel Nichols (circus owner); Laura Nichols (Daniel's daughter); Bozo (circus clown); Red Jake Mazola (villain)
Synopsis:
Hercules came upon a circus and helps protect its owner from a mobster.

Indexer Notes

The final appearance of Quality's "Hercules" feature.

Final Golden Age appearance of Joe Hercules. He appears next in The Golden Age (DC, 1993 Series) #4 (May 1994).

[Cloud of Doom]
(Table of Contents: 12)

Don Glory / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
Lincoln Ross (signed) (house name)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:sports; adventure
Characters:
Don Glory
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Stormy Foster
  2. [King Korman's Castle]
    Stormy Foster
  3. [Tootin's Goldfish]
    Dan Tootin
  4. [The Dutch Guiana Incident]
    Bob and Swab
  5. [The Whissler Building Case]
    Betty Bates
  6. ["A hike through the countryside is lots of fun in the springtime"]
    Tommy Tinkle
  7. [Captured by Axel Kopf]
    Ghost of Flanders
  8. [Blacky Meyer Is Back in Town]
    The Red Bee
  9. [The Top-Hatters Mob]
    The Strange Twins
  10. [The Fluid of Fury]
    Lion Boy
  11. Death Bowls a Strike
  12. [Three-Ring Chaos]
    Hercules
  13. [Cloud of Doom]
    Don Glory
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