Hit Comics
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{{Infobox comic book title
| image = HitComicsNumber25.jpg
| caption = Issue #25 (December 1942)
| schedule = Monthly
| format = Standard
| publisher = Quality Comics
| date = July 1940 – July 1950
| issues = 65
| main_char_team = Hercules
Red Bee
Neon the Unknown
Lion Boy
Stormy Foster
Kid Eternity
| writers = Toni Blum, Jerry Iger, Otto Binder
| artists = Charles Nicholas, Lou Fine, Henry C. Kiefer, Sheldon Moldoff
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Hit Comics is a comic book anthology title published by Quality Comics during the Golden Age of Comic Books from 1940 until 1950.{{cite book |last1=Koolman |first1=Mike |last2=Amash |first2=Jim |title=The Quality Companion |date=2011 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |isbn=978-1605490373 |pages=220–221}}
The first issue of Hit Comics featured the debut of Red Bee and Neon the Unknown, among others.{{cite book |last1=Benton |first1=Mike |title=Superhero comics of the Golden Age: the illustrated history |date=1992 |publisher=Taylor Pub. |isbn=9780878338085 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CaUNAQAAMAAJ&q=hit+comics+quality |accessdate=17 July 2019 |language=en}} 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).Steranko, Jim. The Steranko History of Comics Volume 2 (Supergraphics, 1972).{{cite book |last1=Hill |first1=Roger |title=Reed Crandall: Illustrator of the Comics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kwvGDgAAQBAJ&q=hit+comics+quality |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |accessdate=17 July 2019 |language=en |date=26 July 2017|isbn=9781605490779}} The anthology title would end in July 1950.{{cite web |title=Mike's Amazing World of Comics |url=http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=2638 |website=www.mikesamazingworld.com |accessdate=17 July 2019}}{{cite web |title=GCD :: Series :: Hit Comics |url=https://www.comics.org/series/158/ |website=www.comics.org |accessdate=17 July 2019}}