Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 68
On-sale Date: 1942-04-03
Editing: S. M. Iger (editor)
Cover Thumbnail for Hit Comics (Quality Comics, 1940 series) #22 Edit Cover
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[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Stormy Foster / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Gill Fox (signed as Gill Fox)
Inks:
Gill Fox (signed as Gill Fox)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Great Defender [Stormy Foster]

Indexer Notes

Art credits from Jim Amash on page 18 of 2011's Quality Companion from TwoMorrows, which shows Fox holding his original cover art for this issue.

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.

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

Stormy Foster / comic story / 9 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
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 (1)

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

Script:
? (signed as Stanley Charlot)
Pencils:
Inks:
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

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; humor
Characters:
Bob Masters; Swab Decker

War!
(Table of Contents: 4)

Comet Kelly / comic story / 5 pages

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

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
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

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

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

Ghost of Flanders / comic story / 7 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
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

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; Kimmel (villain, introduction, death)

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

Captain Flagg / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:aviation; war
Characters:
Captain Flagg (a Marine, introduction)

Accidental Murder
(Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages

Script:
J. T. Flagg
Letters:
Typeset

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

Tommy Tinkle / comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:humor; fantasy-supernatural
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:I see my classmate is working in his printshop tonite!

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

Swordfish / comic story / 5 pages

Script:
Pencils:
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Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:adventure; war
Characters:
Ensign Jack Smith (introduction); The Japanese (villains)

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

Script:
? (signed as Lincoln Ross)
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:sports; adventure
Characters:
Don Glory; Marko (villain, introduction); Andre (villain, introduction)
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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Stormy Foster
  2. Make-Up for Murder
    Stormy Foster
  3. [Case of the Cat's Skeleton]
    Betty Bates
  4. [Peanuts and Spies]
    Bob and Swab
  5. War!
    Comet Kelly
  6. [The Silken Gang War]
    The Red Bee
  7. [Painless Dentist]
    Dan Tootin
  8. [Prisoner of Von Kimmel]
    Ghost of Flanders
  9. [Totoya Adventure]
    Strange Twins, The
  10. [The Coming of Captain Flagg]
    Captain Flagg
  11. Accidental Murder
  12. ["I see my classmate is working in his printshop tonite!"]
    Tommy Tinkle
  13. [The Swordfish Strikes]
    Swordfish
  14. [Bout with the Vichy French]
    Don Glory
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