Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1946-08-05
Editing: Victor Fox (editor)
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Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
E. C. Stoner (signed as ECS)
Inks:
E. C. Stoner (signed as ECS)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Indexer Notes

The artist's signature is found on the front of the locomotive.

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

221 Conyngham Ave, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Editorial Offices 60 E 42nd St, NY, NY.
An ad on the inside cover of All Top Comics (Fox, 1946 series) #3 (Fall 1946) states the on-sale of September-October Blue Beetle was August 5.

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Green Premium Coupon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Triple Trouble
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Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
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Colors:
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Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:The Devil makes work for idle fingers...
Characters:
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Reardon (villain, introduction); Colini (villain, introduction)
Synopsis:
The city is taking on a campaign against juvenile delinquency. But a crooked furrier hires a bunch of school kids to rob his warehouse so he can collect the insurance.
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Keith Chandler : Art was previously credited to Lou Ferstadt, but compare this story with any other signed effort by that artist from the same period (e.g. the Lash Lightning story in Four Favorites #16 (Ace Books)) and it will be clearly seen that this is by Stoner.

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Minit Mystery / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
?
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  • Genre:detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Lakeslip, Florida...
Reprints (1)

Solution by Cupid
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Matty Case / text story / 2 pages

Script:
Al Huston (credited)
Letters:
typeset
  • Genre:drama
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Matty's coupe glided round a corner...
Characters:
Matty Case; Mr. Stacy; Miss Stacy

[The Enigma Called Noface]
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Johnny Earthquake / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Sid Tyler (signed)
Inks:
Sid Tyler (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:crime; detective-mystery
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Who is this genius of crime...
Characters:
Johnny Earthquake; Noface (villain); Roland Van Hemingway; Rusty Ringle; Gloria Van Hemingway; Narda
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

last previous appearance in THE BOOK OF COMICS #1

Statue of Doom!
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Bronze Man / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
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?
Letters:
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  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
Bronze Man [Major Randy Ronald]; Judge Buzz Smith (Rand's father); Rand Ronald Smith, Jr.; Bull Gambos (villain); Gambo's gang (villains, all die?)
Synopsis:
Randy gets off the train and spots a statue named after him in appreciation for saving the life of the local judge years back, and he visits the courtroom where the judge is sentencing a criminal to prison. While seated there, Randy overhears a threat to the judge's life and tries to follow the plotters, but instead sees the judge's son kidnapped. He discovers that the statue is loaded with explosives, timed to go off during a citizen's committee speech to be given by the judge.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

Next appearance in Jo-Jo Comics #7.

Credits added by Craig Delich.

Alec Hope is a pen name for Bronze Man creator/artist, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, and appeared on the strips that Hollingsworth drew (courtesy of the Who's Who).

Despite the text which specifically says Bronze Man wears a "bronze mask" to conceal his "disfigured" face, this story (and the other Bronze Man stories) has been redrawn so the hero does not wear a mask and his face is normal.

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Green Premium Coupon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  2. ["Hey, kids! Get valuable premiums."]
    Green Premium Coupon
  3. Triple Trouble
    Blue Beetle
  4. ["Lakeslip, Florida..."]
    Minit Mystery
  5. Solution by Cupid
    Matty Case
  6. [The Enigma Called Noface]
    Johnny Earthquake
  7. Statue of Doom!
    Bronze Man
  8. ["Free premiums for Green Coupons"]
    Green Premium Coupon
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Issue was modified by, among others
  • David Banuelos
  • Ray Bottorff Jr
  • Keith Chandler
  • Pat Conolly
  • Craig Delich
  • Bob Hughes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
  • David Wilt
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