[Johnny L. Wilson]

The Black Hood vs. NeedleNoodle: The observation that this villain seems very Chester Gould is well-taken. I'm started to like Irv Noren's inks more and more. I wasn't expecting the revelation in this story to be taken so calmly, but it set up the next part of the story nicely. In addition, I loved Babs' line "Gotta' see a typewriter about a story!" I thought the green and yellow river on p. 11 brought up feelings of pollution when I saw it, but it just demonstrates working with the limited palette of the day.

Gloomy Gus: Sometimes, these little comedies are better than others. This one worked for me, maybe because I loved "Pete"'s clever line in the last panel. I snickered.

The Green Beard: This little text story was fairly obvious, but I thought it was clever in its execution.

NeedleNoodle Strikes Back: I liked the classic noir elements in this story and particularly liked the inks when Hood discovers the hideaway within the hideaway. I loved the Hansel & Gretel approach that Babs tried with the punch board tokens and thought it was ironic that the classic con game punch board was put to good use.

A bit of a joke on me was that I thought it was amazing that Babs didn't run her stockings getting into the box car in one scene. So, I was surprised when it was covered in the very last panel of the story.

I really enjoyed the whole run of Black Hood Comics uploaded to this site.

Link to the book: Black Hood Comics 19