Digital Comic Museum - Blue Beetle 031 (c2c)


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All pages complete. First Fox revival issue.

Issue: #31
Published: June 1944, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 52, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: 7 1/2"? X 10 1/4"? [pre-War]; 7 1/4" X 10 1/8" [<= 1948]; 6 7/8" X 10 1/8" [>= 1950] Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The Blue Beetle June 1944 No 31. Published monthly by Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc. Office of Publication 32 North High St. Akron, O. Editorial and executive offices 10 East 43rd St, New York City. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass under the Act of March 3, 1879. Re-entry at New York NY. Price 10 cents per issue. Subscription rates:12 issues in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain $1.20 On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1944 Periodicals, page 255

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)	Blue Beetle Clips the Nips
Featuring:	The Blue Beetle
Credits:	Pencils: E. C. Stoner \| Inks: E. C. Stoner
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] The Japanese

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Adventure of the Crumbling Skyscraper
Featuring:	The Blue Beetle
Synopsis:	German saboteurs blow up a building and leave evidence that the Beetle is responsible. But the Beetle uses his super powers to rebuild the entire building by morning. But the saboteurs continue their campaign to blacken the Beetle's name.
Credits:	Pencils: E. C. Stoner \| Inks: E. C. Stoner
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] Joan Mason Admiral Mason (Joan's Father)

Cartoon (1 page)
Featuring:	Military Humor
Credits:	Pencils: William Jourdain
Genre:	Humor

Comic Story (1 page)
Featuring:	Minute Mystery
Credits:	Pencils: William Jourdain

Comic Story (10 pages)	Peril In the Pacific
Featuring:	The Blue Beetle
Synopsis:	Dan Garrett is given the assignment of protecting Colonel Denton who is delivering information of the utmost importance. But Gestapo agents infiltrate the plane Denton is flying on, and Dan and the Colonel end up stranded on a "Jap infested" island in the Pacific.
Credits:	Pencils: Herman C. Browner ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Blue Beetle [Dan Garett] Colonel Denton Lt. Adams Lt. Morrow Gestapo Agents (villains) The Japanese (villains)

Text Story (2 pages)	They Came to Destroy America
Credits:	Letters: typeset

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Whistling Death
Featuring:	Joan Mason
Synopsis:	Joan solves the mystery of a broadway booking agent's murder.
Credits:	Pencils: Gerald Altman ?
Genre:	Adventure
Characters:	Joan Mason

Comic Story (6 pages)	The Very Salty Tale of the O'Brine Twins
Featuring:	O'Brine Twins
Synopsis:	After being declared 4-F by the draft board, the O'Brine twins join the Merchant Marine. There they foil a submarine attack and volunteer to sale the captured submarine back to Washington. Only trouble is, they don't know the way!
Credits:	Script: Jack Farr \| Pencils: Jack Farr \| Inks: Jack Farr \| Letters: Jack Farr
Genre:	Adventure Humor
Characters:	Waterman O'Brine Wetmore O'Brine Cap'n McArsenic

Comic Story (10 pages)	Buried Alive
Featuring:	The Blue Beetle
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Comic Story (1 page)	Coxwell and Glaisher
Featuring:	True Story
Credits:	Pencils: William Jourdain
Genre:	Non-fiction

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