Hit Comics #21

This anthology issue features multiple superhero stories including "The Great Defender," in which a young man found in a ditch is revealed to be the missing banker's son, leading to intrigue involving hospital visits and a plot related to the Whistler Building and an enemy named Dodge Huysen. "The Red Bee" follows Michael the Bee as he battles gangsters and corrupt officials, engaging in a rampaging fight that results in his capture and subsequent escape. "Hercules" depicts the strongman hero ensnared in a gasoline-soaked net trap, set alight by an evil hand, and subsequently engaged in a rescue mission involving a woman named Laura and a character called Sister Nichols, with action culminating in aerial trapeze combat.