Hit Comics (1940 Quality) 5

Cover art by Lou Fine. "Murder On the Assembly Line," art by Dan Zolnerowich; An auto manufacturing plant is being sabotaged by a competitor (Wolf Stead, behind the scenes); Joe Hercules shows up, on foot, in his business suit, and persuades the plant's owner Judd Haskin to hire Hercules as an assembly worker, so that he can help catch the culprit, and help the factory meet its quota in time. "Murder of a Peddler," art by Nick Cardy; A pushcart peddler is killed in a drive-by shooting; His young son, Tony, is accused of being responsible by a man who claims to have witnessed the event, though the boy pleads he is innocent; Betty Bates vs. Jerry Corona. "The Emerald of Egypt," art by Alex Blum; Rod Wing Low pretends to be his brother, Douglas, in a plan to steal the riches of a Sheik and his soon-to-be-wed daughter, Anitra. "The Panama Canal Incident," script and art by Klaus Nordling; Bob and Swab come across a plot by foreign agents to sink a ship in mid-channel in the Panama Canal in order to stop trade; Things become more complicated when Swab is captured. "Assignment: Quanalla," art by Charles Sultan; The oppressed peons of the tiny Central American kingdom of Quanalla rebel against their tyrannical rulers. "Flatboat No. 96," art by Charles Nicholas (as B. H. Apiary); Among the many flatboats tied up along the waterfront there is one called "no. 26" from which murderers emanate to "rub out" victims on a strictly cash basis; The Red Bee puts a stop to that, despite the D.A.'s annoying attempts to capture him. "The House on the Moors" starring Old Witch, art by John Celardo. "Ghosts of the Unborn To-Morrow" text story by Toni Blum (Toni Boone). "In a Metropolis of Madmen" starring Neon the Unknown, script by S. M. Iger (as Tagor Maroy). 68 pgs., full color. Cover price $0.10.