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| Date | | Number: 5 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Hit Comics 5 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | 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. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh] |
| Pencils | Lou Fine |
| Inks | Lou Fine |
| First Line | The Red Bee plunges his big knife into the killer fish! |
| Notes | Classic cover. |
| The Super Bike for Super Boys! / Schwinn Bicycles (1 page) | |
| Synopsis | A boy gets a new bike. |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | I'm proud of my pal, Uncle Joe; It's speed and strength we like. |
| Notes | Inside front cover advertisement for Arnold, Schwinn & Company bikes. |
| Comic Story | Murder on the Assembly Line / Hercules (7 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Gregg Powers) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Hercules; Wolf Stead (no actual appearance, villain, introduction); Judd Haskin (introduction) |
| Pencils | Dan Zolnerowich (signed) |
| Inks | Dan Zolnerowich (signed) |
| First Line | Seems to be trouble there! |
| Comic Story | Murder of a Peddler / Betty Bates (5 pages) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Betty Bates; Jerry Corona (villain, introduction) |
| Script | Bob Powell (signed) ? |
| Pencils | Nick Cardy (signed) |
| Inks | Nick Cardy (signed) |
| First Line | Through the crowded east side streets speeds a car... |
| Comic Story | The Emerald of Egypt / The Strange Twins (7 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | Doug Strange; Rod Strange (villain); Anitra (intro); her father (intro); her fiance (intro) |
| Script | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| Pencils | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| Inks | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| Comic Story | The Panama Canal Incident / Bob and Swab (6 pages) |
| Genre | Adventure; Humor |
| Script | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| Pencils | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| Inks | Klaus Nordling (signed) |
| First Line | The gob and the marine, as usual, cannot agree on certain issues... |
| Comic Story | Assignment: Quanalla / G-5 Super Agent (6 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Cary Weyte) |
| Genre | Spy |
| Characters | G-5; Gen. Gorzel (introduction); Jean Carrolla (introduction) |
| Pencils | Charles Sultan (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Sultan (signed) |
| Notes | Feature changed title from X-5 to G-5. |
| Comic Story | Flatboat No. 96 / The Red Bee (6 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as B. H. Apiary) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | The Red Bee [Rick Raleigh]; Number 26 (villain, introduction); un-named gangsters (villains, introduction for all) |
| Pencils | Charles Nicholas (signed) |
| Inks | Charles Nicholas (signed) |
| First Line | I'm going now, Raleigh. Take care of the office! |
| Comic Story | The House on the Moors / The Old Witch (5 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Pierre Winter) |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Characters | The Old Witch |
| Pencils | John Celardo (signed) |
| Inks | John Celardo (signed) |
| First Line | My tale is of a lonely house on a Scottish moor... |
| Comic Story | Voyage to Mars / Blaze Barton (5 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Roy Talon) |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Characters | Blaze Barton; Betty; The Martians (villains, introductions); their king (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Maurice Gutwirth (signed) ? |
| Inks | Maurice Gutwirth (signed) ? |
| First Line | Good bye, professor! |
| Text Story | Ghosts of the Unborn To-Morrow (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | The coroner pronounced his death as suicide, and the papers ran the headlines: |
| Letters | typeset |
| Script | Toni Blum (Toni Boone) |
| First Line | The coroner pronounced his death as suicide, and the papers ran the headlines: |
| Comic Story | Wild Goose Chase with a Real Goose / Jack and Jill (6 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Lowell Riggs) |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Characters | Jack Doe; Jill Doe; Suli (a cook, introduction); a Chinese crimelord (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | John Lindermayer (signed) ? |
| Inks | John Lindermayer (signed) ? |
| First Line | Jack is buried in a theory that is supposed to revoluntize criminology. |
| Comic Story | The Invisibility Cloak / Tommy Tinkle (2 pages) |
| Script | ? (signed as Sandy Klauz) |
| Genre | Humor |
| Characters | Tommy Tinkle; Mary Lou; Sniff (villain) |
| Pencils | Arthur Beeman (signed) ? |
| Inks | Arthur Beeman (signed) ? |
| First Line | This is my greatest invention, a cloak that makes on invisible! |
| Comic Story | In a Metropolis of Madmen / Neon the Unknown (7 pages) |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Neon [Tom Corbet]; Foreign agents (villains, introduction for all) |
| Script | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| Pencils | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| Inks | S. M. Iger (signed) |
| First Line | Grr! Lemme at him! |
| Notes | It's a good bet that Blum did the art on this story as the only other artist known to have done it was Lou Fine in 1941 and his style is easily recognizable. Added by Craig Delich 2013-10-10. |
| Advertisement | This Beautiful Desk for Only $1.00 / Remington Typewriters (1 page) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Inside Back Cover. Advertisement for a desk for only $1.00 with any Remington Portable Typewriter from Remington Rand Inc. |
| Advertisement | Ready The Sensational New Daisy 1000-Shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine (1 page) |
| Feature | Daisy Manufacturing Company; Red Ryder |
| Script | ? (ad copy) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Characters | Red Ryder; Little Beaver |
| Pencils | Fred Harman (signed) |
| Inks | Fred Harman (signed) |
| Notes | Back cover. Advertisement featuring characters from the Red Ryder comic characters for the Red Ryder 1000-shot Carbine BB gun from Daisy Manufacturing Company of Plymouth, Michigan. |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a Creative Commons Attribution License. More details about this comic may be available in their page here | |

