Top Notch Comics #9
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis October 1940 issue of Top Notch Comics spotlights the Black Hood, "Man of Mystery," with a cover by Edd Ashe that crackles with pulp energy: a towering, grinning green idol dominates the background while a muscular yellow-clad hero heaves a massive boulder overhead, bats wheeling through a stormy sky behind him. Below, red-robed skeletal figures menace a woman in distress as a young boy — Roy the Super Boy — rushes into the fray wielding an umbrella. At a dime a copy, this jam-packed 1940 package also features the story "The Earning of the Magic Sword," written and drawn by Al Camy, making it a fine snapshot of the Golden Age's anything-goes adventure spirit.
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Policeman Kip Burland is framed by the Skull, resulting in Kip being discharged from the force in disgrace. He is taken "for a ride" by the Skull's minions and left in the woods to die. He is discovered by an old hermit -- a self-taught scientist and philosopher, who had also been wronged by the Skull. The Hermit ends up turning Kip into a super crime fighter by putting him through rigid training, teaching him science and all knowledge. The Black Hood then confronts the Skull at a masquerade party. The Skull kills a young girl with a poison pill before being unmasked and escaping.
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