Blue Beetle #9

(October 1941)

[The Bank of Counterfeit Bills] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 11 pages (report information)

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Al Carreno ?

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; Jorth (villain); Slink Bard (villain); Lora Crofte

Synopsis:

Crofte Trust Bank is passing counterfeit $1 bills.

[The Crimes of the Falcon] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Al Carreno ?

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; The Falcon (Intro, villain); Luella; Mr. Finger

Synopsis:

A gang of zombies tries to rob a jewelry store.

[The Carnival Doll Killing] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; Carvo (introduction); other carnival workers (introduction); Joan Mason

Synopsis:

Carnival pickpockets steal rich people's address cards for future use.

[The Deadly Sanitarium of Dr. Horthe] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

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Al Carreno ?

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Al Carreno ?

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Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; Dr. Horthe (Intro, villain); Janet Charter

Synopsis:

Dr. Horth uses dead bodies to dictate new wills leaving their estates to him.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Kooba Kid / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

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Kooba Kid

Synopsis:

The Kooba Kid is too lazy to reel in his fishing line but one sip of Kooba with vitamin B-1 gives him the strength to tackle purse snatchers.

[The Gorilla With a Human Brain] (Table of Contents)

Gorilla / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

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Characters:

The Gorilla [Jack Castle; gorilla w/ a human brain] (intro and origin); Dr. Flavius Brock (Intro, villain); Elsa Brock; Ken Connors

Synopsis:

Mad scientist Brock transfers Castle's brain into a gorilla's body. Castle murders Brock and then goes after his niece.

The Memoirs of the Colonel (Table of Contents)

comic story / 2 pages (report information)

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Script:

Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel)

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[The Origin of the Blackbird] (Table of Contents)

Blackbird / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Characters:

The Blackbird [Jake Baxter] (intro and origin); Raftery; Von Essen (villain); Nazis; Dutch Berry

Synopsis:

Jake Baxter builds a super plane but no one will believe him so he becomes the Blackbird.

[Buttercup Alley] (Table of Contents)

Davy the Wish Master / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

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Arturo Cazeneuve ? [ as Arthur Pierce]

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Pierce Rice ? [ as Arthur Pierce]

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Genre:

occult; children; humor

Characters:

Davy (the Wish Master); Ma Grogan; Pa Grogan; Junior Grogan

Synopsis:

Davy lives in a shack. The Grogans torment him day and night, until one day he learns he can make wishes come true.