Black Hood Comics
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| Black Hood Comics | |
 Cover to Black Hood Comics #12 |
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| Publisher | MLJ Comics |
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| Schedule | Quarterly |
| Format | Standard |
| Publication date | Winter 1943 - Summer 1946 |
| Number of issues | 11 |
| Main character(s) | Black Hood Hangman |
| Creative team | |
| Artist(s) | Raymond Kinstler Bill Vigoda Harry Sahle Clem Weisbecker |
Black Hood Comics was a comic book published by MLJ Comics, from Winter 1943 to Summer 1946, running eleven issues, and featuring the titular character.
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[edit] The Black Hood
Created in 1940, in the October issue of Top-Notch Comics by Harry Shorten (writer) and Al Camy (artist), the Black Hood was Patrolman Kip Burland, who (like the first Blue Beetle, Ghost Rider and the Guardian before him) assumed the role of costumed vigilante while off-duty.[1]
- "[F]ramed for burglary by a villain called The Skull, [Burland] needed a cover to use while proving himself innocent," and adopted the role and costume of the Black Hood. "After clearing his name... he continued to use it because it enabled him to avoid all those entangling legal restrictions imposed on policemen in the pursuit of justice."[1]
[edit] Beyond comics
Popular from the start ("upstaging The Wizard, Top-Notch's first star"[1] early on), the Black Hood also featured in Jackpot Comics,but was notable for being "one of the few comic book characters ever to star in his own pulp magazine."[1] Black Hood Detective began in 1941, and featured work from future Batman-artist Dick Sprang, among others. With its second issue, Black Hood Detective was renamed Hooded Detective, and the magazine provided the adventures of the Black Hood in illustrated prose, rather than comics form.[1]
The Black Hood also briefly featured in a radio show "[f]or a few months in 1943."[1]
[edit] Black Hood Comics
Acchieving popularity in the pages of MLJ's comics, the Black Hood gained his own comic title in 1943, named simply Black Hood Comics. A continuation of an early title - Hangman Comics - the numbering of the new title began not with issue one, but with issue number nine, while the Hangman character continued to appear in the renamed comic. Other recurring stories and features in the comic include Gloomy Gus, Junior Flying Corps club, Roy and Dusty, Bentley of Scotland Yard, Flying Dragons and World Wonders.
Among the artists who worked on the comic, were Raymond Kinstler, Bill Vigoda, Harry Sahle, Clem Weisbecker, Red Holmdale, Al Fagaly, and others.
[edit] Other Hoods
This character is not the same as the later one called The Black Hood, which was later used by DC Comics under its Impact Comics imprint.
[edit] References
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