Blue Beetle #3

(October 1967)

The Madmen (Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); D. C. Glanzman ? (credited) (dialogue, see notes)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

Bob Agnew (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A reign of fear and madness is created by The Madmen

Genre

superhero

Characters

Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Madmen (villains, introduction); Detective Fisher; Tracey; Dan Garret

Reprints

• in Blue Beetle (Modern [1970s], 1977 series) #3 (1977) [minus one page]
• in Blue Beetle (K. G. Murray, 1978 series) #2 ([1978])
• in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2007)

Indexer Notes

There are conflicting accounts on the D.C.(Dave) Glanzman credit. Editor-in-chief Dick Giordano has said they asked Glanzman to use his name (as per Ditko's request to not be credited) and Dick said Glanzman agreed (Comic Book Artist #9).

Ditko, in Robin Snyder's The Legend of the Blue Beetle (the Hero comics # 29, Autumn, 2019) wrote "The Blue Beetle (my version) and the Question were my stories but there was "editing" and revising to some degree by someone. Giordano added the Glanzman name to my stories. I do not know why, when and where."

The Madmen appear next in AMERICOMICS SPECIAL (AC, 1983 Series) #1.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Beetle's Nest / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Dick Giordano

Pencils

Steve Ditko (illustration)

Inks

Steve Ditko (illustration)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

The Beetle's Nest

Indexer Notes

Letters from Uncle Bob, Dave Caplan, and Gene Reed.

[Murder at a Square Construction] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Question / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); D. C. Glanzman ? (credited) (dialogue, see notes)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-1023

First Line of Dialogue or Text

This is unbelievable! How could one of the A Square construction owners be drowned...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Question

Reprints

• in Blue Beetle (Modern [1970s], 1977 series) #3 (1977)
• in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2007)

Indexer Notes

There are conflicting accounts on the D.C.(Dave) Glanzman credit. Editor-in-chief Dick Giordano has said they asked Glanzman to use his name (as per Ditko's request to not be credited) and Dick said Glanzman agreed (Comic Book Artist #9).

Ditko, in Robin Snyder's The Legend of the Blue Beetle (the Hero comics # 29, Autumn, 2019) wrote "The Blue Beetle (my version) and the Question were my stories but there was "editing" and revising to some degree by someone. Giordano added the Glanzman name to my stories. I do not know why, when and where."

Lettering is credited to "A. Machine"

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