Digital Comic Museum - Hit Comics 006 (diff ver) (now all paper) -upgrade 2


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Scanned by Titansfan from a coverless and incomplete comic also missing the centrefold.
Edits by Yoc using HA for the FC and RC pages and the 'bhcomics' version for the centrefold fills.
The IFC is a reconstruction using the ifc from Feature Comics #38.
The IBC was also taken from Feature 38.

Now with paper scans for 'Red Bee' story pgs 1-2. Missing ifc reconstruction restored to file.

Issue: #6
Published: December 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: S. M. Iger
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age US Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was On-going Series
Notes: Copyright 1940 by Comic Magazines, Inc. The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 4.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] The Swordsmen

Comic Story (9 pages)	The Swords of Death
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as B. H. Apiary)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] (Assistant District Attorney) The Swordsmen (villains, Introduction For All, Some Die) Kulak (villain, Introduction, Death) Rog (villain, Introduction, Death)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Rod Strange Douglas Strange

Comic Story (5 pages)
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Betty Bates The Gorman Brothers (villains, Introductions) Jimmy Meke (introduction) Mabel Meke (introduction) The D. A. (introduction)

Comic Story (6 pages)
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	Bob Masters Swab Decker

Comic Story (5 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as Pierre Winter)
Genre:	Horror-suspense

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Hercules comes to the aid of a bored Texas oil heiress, descending underwater to fix her father's oil rig. In doing so, Hercules discovers that Japanese are stealing Texas oil via a great pipeline, so he personally carries a huge vat of oil back to Texas.
Credits:	Script: ? (as Gregg Powers)
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Hercules [Joe Hercules] Mr. Nolan (introduction) Lois Nolan (introduction) The Japanese (villains)

Comic Story (5 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as Roy Talon)
Genre:	Science Fiction
Characters:	Blaze Barton The Mercurians (villains, Introductions) The Venusians

Comic Story (4 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as Lowell Riggs)
Genre:	Detective-mystery
Characters:	Jack Doe Jill Doe

Text Story (2 pages)	Blood of the Wolf
Credits:	Script: Toni Blum (credited)[as Toni Boone] \| Letters: Typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	Introducing Lion Boy
Synopsis:	A baby, orphaned by a plane crash, is raised by lions and becomes their leader.
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as Merton Holmes)
Genre:	Jungle
Characters:	Lion Boy (introduction, Origin) John (introduction, Lion Boy's Father, Death) John's Wife (introduction, Lion Boy's Mother, Death)

Comic Story (2 pages)
Credits:	Script: ? (signed as Sandy Klauz)
Genre:	Humor
Characters:	Tommy Tinkle Stoop-Pendous (a Robot, Introduction) Sniff (villain)

Comic Story (7 pages)
Synopsis:	Neon must overcome an evil scientist who has invented an invisible ray.
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Neon [Tom Corbet] Fritz Cardif (villain, Introduction)

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