| Hit Comics | |
|---|---|
 Issue #25 (December 1942) | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Quality Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Standard |
| Publication date | July 1940 – July 1950 |
| No. of issues | 65 |
| Main character(s) | Hercules Red Bee Neon the Unknown Lion Boy Stormy Foster Kid Eternity |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Toni Blum, Jerry Iger, Otto Binder |
| Artist(s) | Charles Nicholas, Lou Fine, Henry C. Kiefer, Sheldon Moldoff |
Hit Comics is a comic book anthology title published by Quality Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books from 1940 until 1950.[1]
The first issue of Hit Comics featured the debut of Red Bee and Neon the Unknown, among others.[2] The comic book series had a series of other rotating cover features, including Hercules, Stormy Foster, and Lion Boy.
In December 1942 (issue #25), the entire line-up of features at Hit Comics changed, with a new additional character called Kid Eternity. The character proved to be popular enough that even his antagonists, Her Highness and Silk, were given their own strip in Hit Comics issues #29 through #57. When Quality Comics began expanding their post-war line of titles in the spring of 1946, Kid Eternity got his own self-titled comic book.
By the late 1940s, however, Quality Comics experienced the same post-war bust that most superhero comics were. In November 1949, Kid Eternity's self-titled magazine was discontinued (with issue #18) and his lead slot in Hit Comics was given over to Jeb Rivers, a riverboat captain (with issue #61).[3][4] The anthology title would end in July 1950.[5][6]
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