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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published December 1942
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing S. M. Iger

Cover Details

Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Mac Raboy
Inks Mac Raboy

15 page Kid Eternity story "The Origin of Kid Eternity"

Characters I & O: Kid Eternity (I, D, R; Christopher "Kit" Freeman); I: Daniel Troop, Mr. Keeper, St. Peter (though a Captain Marvel story claims this is really Shazam); GA: Hercules, Samson, George Washington, Unknown Soldier; V: The Nazis
Genre superhero; occult
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Reprinted in Secret Origins (DC, 1973 series) #4 (September-October 1973)

8 page Betty Bates story "The Death-House Blues"

Characters V: Slugs Moran (I, D; also appears as ghost), Paul Redfern (I, D)
Pencils Al Bryant
Inks Al Bryant

1 page Dan Tootin story "Hair Seed"

Genre gag
Script Jack Cole
Pencils Jack Cole (Ralph Johns)
Inks Jack Cole

7 page Ghost of Flanders story "A Lesson For Bill Jones"

Characters Bill Jones (intro); Hans Schmutz (Intro)
Genre occult; war
Script George Brenner
Pencils George Brenner
Inks George Brenner
Notes last appearance

8 page Stormy Foster story "Men With Two Faces"

Characters V: Dr. Van Veldt and his gang (all I, D)
Genre superhero
Pencils Rudy Palais
Inks Rudy Palais

1 page Tommy Tinkle filler

Genre humor
Script Arthur Beeman
Pencils Arthur Beeman
Inks Arthur Beeman
Notes last appearance

5 page Bob and Swab story "The Incendiary Comic Book"

Characters V: Mr. Twinch (I)
Genre humor; adventure
Script Klaus Nordling
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling
Notes A copy of HIT COMICS is doused with incendiaries!

6 page Don Glory story "Prisoner In a Chinese Laundry"

Characters V: The Japanese; I: Lin
Genre sports
Pencils John Belfi
Inks John Belfi

2 page text story "Retribution"

Letters Typeset

11 page Bill the Magnificent story "Magnificent Bill"

Characters I: Bill Hanson (Bill the Magnificent), Roscoe, Peggy Wilson; V: Commissioner Harris, Rocks and his gang (I for all)
Genre humor
Pencils Tony DiPreta?
Inks Tony DiPreta?