Blue Beetle
#5
(November-December 1940)
Fox,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-11-20
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fox Feature Comic FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1941 Periodicals, page 16
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Blue Beetle ripped through the wall of the gangsters' hideout
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
- Reprints
[Death From Scrag]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Smashing down upon the Underworld rackets...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Scrag (Villain; Intro; Dies); Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Dr. Franz
- Synopsis
- Scrag believes he's the Napolean of Crime and threatens to destroy the city unless he gets 10 million dollars.
Indexer Notes
art id by James Vadeboncouer
[Kober's Lightning Weapon]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look! The handbills are coming from nowhere...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Kober (Villain; Intro, Dies); Mike Mannigan; Dr. Franz; Joan Mason
Indexer Notes
art id by James Vadeboncoeur
[Case of the Missing Blueprint]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Apex Inventions Company meets...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Frenzo (villain; intro); Rack (Intro); Mike Mannigan; Dr. Franz; Joan Mason
- Synopsis
- Blue Beetle chases after some stolen blueprints.
Indexer Notes
art id by James Vadeboncoeur
[The Beetle's New Powers]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- ? [as Charles Nicholas]
- Pencils
- Pierce Rice ?
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And this is the Vitamin 2 X capsule you discovered?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Vito Catelli (villain); Big Bill O'Rory; Little Lulu (gangster, NOT the same as the Dell character!); Dr.Franz; Mike Mannigan; Charley Storm; Catelli's daughter
- Synopsis
- Blue Beetle gains super-powers from Dr. Frenz's vitamin 2X for the first time. Meanwhile Little Lulu declares war on Catelli.
- Reprints
-
in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #4 (No Date [circa 2008 Mars]) - from Blue Beetle daily (Fox Features Syndicate) 1940-03-18? - 1940-04-14?
-
Indexer Notes
precedes the stories in Blue Beetle #3 and 4.
The Blue Beetle and the Hi-Jack Combine
Blue Beetle / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Nathaniel Nitkin (credited as N. N. Nathaniel)
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Patrolman Dan Garret caught his breath.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Killer Agerrs; Dr. Franz; Police Commissioner Harmon
[The Oasis of Li-Wang]
Dr. Fung / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Bob Powell ?
- Pencils
- Bob Powell (credited as Arthur Dean) (signed as Dean)
- Inks
- Bob Powell (credited as Arthur Dean) (signed as Dean)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dr. Fung and his young assistant...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dr. Fung; Dan Barrister; Li Wang
- Reprints
-
from Wonder Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #1 (May 1939)
-
Indexer Notes
Signed "Dean" in penultimate panel. Story title taken from Wonder Comics #1 GCD entry.
[Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring]
Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Klaus Nordling (signed as F. Klaus)
- Inks
- Klaus Nordling (signed as F. Klaus)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In a dingy Chinatown alley...
- Genre
- spy
- Characters
- Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence; Dan Krard (villain, intro); Miss Henner (Intro)
- Reprints
- from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #5 (December 1939)
-
In the Underworld of Paris
Zanzibar the Magician / comic story / 3 pages
- Script
- Will Eisner ?
- Pencils
- George Tuska (signed as Geo. Tuska)
- Inks
- George Tuska (signed as Geo. Tuska)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Three murders in one week!
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Zanzibar the Magician [alias Sir Cravel]; Simone (intro, villain)
- Reprints
- from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #4 (November 1939)
-
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["The Blue Beetle ripped through the wall of the gangsters' hideout"]
Blue Beetle -
1.
[Death From Scrag]
Blue Beetle -
2.
[Kober's Lightning Weapon]
Blue Beetle -
3.
[Case of the Missing Blueprint]
Blue Beetle -
4.
[The Beetle's New Powers]
Blue Beetle -
5.
The Blue Beetle and the Hi-Jack Combine
Blue Beetle -
6.
[The Oasis of Li-Wang]
Dr. Fung -
7.
[Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring]
Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence -
8.
In the Underworld of Paris
Zanzibar the Magician
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Keith Chandler
- Pat Conolly
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Patrick Shaughnessy
- Henry Steele, Hames Ware, Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr. (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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