Hit Comics #18
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHit Comics #18 is an anthology featuring multiple heroes. The Red Bee story involves the character battling criminals and escaping from a scuttled launch by straining ropes to break free, ultimately pursuing the mob to waiting lifeboats. The Hercules story depicts the mythological hero battling thugs and enduring various physical hazards, including sand attacks, spinning saws, and sharp discs hurled by adversaries. The Ghost of Flanders storyline features an aerial dogfight between planes, with the protagonist pursuing a fleeing spy and later discovering a burning wreckage on an island.
When thieves target Doc Vaughn's drugstore, young clerk Stormy Foster dons a fake moustache and takes a super-vitamin that unlocks his hidden strength—just in time to face the chaos. With Doc Vaughn, Ah Choo, and Detective Cooper caught in the crossfire, the real danger may not be the robbers, but the sinister forces behind them, including the mysterious Oshinto Karu and the enigmatic Doc Falk.
In this 1941 tale from Hit Comics #18, the Ghost of Flanders—Rip Graves, presumed dead since the First World War—rises from his crypt beneath the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier to thwart a Nazi sabotage plot. As Fifth Columnists Fritz, Carl, Rudolf, and Eric attempt to steal vital defense plans from Fort Brigg, the spectral hero emerges to stop them, his origin still shrouded in wartime mystery.
In "null," Joe Hercules steps in when two monument works employees struggle with a heavy tombstone, only to uncover troubling welts on their backs. As he investigates further, the hero uncovers a hidden exploitation at the works—where the foreman and manager are abusing workers, siphoning their wages, all while the owner remains unaware.
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Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #91 (2013), Take That, Adolf!: The Fighting Comic Books of the Second World War #[nn] (2017), Gwandanaland Comics #1067
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