Blue Beetle
#15
(October 1942)
Holyoke,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Holyoke Publishing Co. Inc.
- Editing
- Charles Quinlan ?
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Blue Beetle / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's the chief of police over at Fairlawn, wonder what he wants?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Sparky [Sparkington J. Northrup]; Madame Fang (villain, introduction); Rod Rutter; Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason
- Synopsis
- Dan and Mike have to go to a neighboring town to extradite Rod Rutter. Sparky hitches a ride. Madame Fang runs them off the road and rescues Rod. Joan comes along and picks up Dan and Sparky and gives chase. Joan gets captured, so the Beetle and Sparky have to go into action.
Indexer Notes
Sparky appeared on the cover of issue #14 and in an ad page in that same issue, but this is his first story appearance. Although the second story in this issues is chronologically the first. Joan Mason is blonde again.
[no title indexed]
Nosey Nolan / comic story / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Nosey Nolan was teased so much about his big nose...
- Characters
- Nosey Nolan (intro, only appearance)
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The mid-afternoon silence is broken by the eerie whail [sic] of a screaming siren...!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Hautmann (villain; introduction); Mike Mannigan; Sparky [Sparkingon J. Northrup] (introduction, origin)
- Synopsis
- The Beetle has to deal with a prison break. Hauptman a Gestapo agent gets to them. Meanwhile Lord Northrup ships his son to America for the duration. Hauptman tries to kidnap the boy when he lands. The Beetle rescues him, but Sparky discovers his identity and asks to be his partner.
[no title indexed]
V-Man / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Paris--the heavy tread of Nazi boots echoes through a street of the occupied capital!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- V-Man
- Synopsis
- V-Man saves the occupied town of Ste. Gabriel from being wiped out to teach the Resistance a lesson.
The Bloodless Bodies
Blue Beetle / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Phil Sturm (signed)
- Pencils
- Phil Bard [as Oliver Ashford] (signed)
- Inks
- Phil Bard [as Oliver Ashford] (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Sparky; the Vampire [Dr. Grime] (villain, introduction); Mike Mannigan
- Synopsis
- Dan, Mike and Sparky investigate a killer who leaves his bodies dry of blood. It's Dr. Grime pretending to be a vampire so he can get enough blood to resurrect corpses from Ancient Egypt.
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Table of Contents
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0.
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Blue Beetle -
1.
["It's the chief of police over at Fairlawn, wonder what he wants?"]
Blue Beetle -
2.
["Nosey Nolan was teased so much about his big nose..."]
Nosey Nolan -
3.
["The mid-afternoon silence is broken by the eerie whail [sic] of a screaming siren...!"]
Blue Beetle -
4.
Four Spies
Blue Beetle -
5.
["Paris--the heavy tread of Nazi boots echoes through a street of the occupied capital!"]
V-Man -
6.
The Mixed-Up Parrots
Spark Stevens -
7.
The Bloodless Bodies
Blue Beetle -
8.
Lieutenant Edward Henry O'Hare
This issue was modified by, among others
- Henry Andrews
- Bill Crupe
- Bob Hughes
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
- Fawzy Partridge
- Per Sandell
- John P. Selegue
- Jim Van Dore
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