Blue Beetle #44

(September-October 1946)

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Triple Trouble (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script

?

Pencils

E. C. Stoner

Inks

E. C. Stoner

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The Devil makes work for idle fingers...

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Reardon (villain, introduction); Colini (villain, introduction)

Synopsis

The city is taking on a campaign against juvenile delingquency. But a crooked furrier hires a bunch of school kids to rob his warehouse so he can collect the insurance.

Reprints

• in Human Fly (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Indexer Notes

Keith Chandler : Art was previously credited to Lou Ferstadt, but compare this story with any other signed effort by that artist from the same period (e.g. the Lash Lightning story in Four Favorites #16 (Ace Books)) and it will be clearly seen that this is by Stoner.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Minit Mystery / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Al Zere

Inks

Al Zere

Colors

?

Letters

Al Zere ?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Lakeslip, Florida...

Genre

detective-mystery

Reprints

• in Human Fly (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Solution by Cupid (Table of Contents: 4)

Matty Case / text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Al Huston (credited)

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Matty's coupe glided round a corner...

Genre

drama

Characters

Matty Case; Mr. Stacy; Miss Stacy

[The Enigma Called Noface] (Table of Contents: 5)

Johnny Earthquake / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sid Tyler (signed)

Inks

Sid Tyler (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Who is this genius of crime...

Genre

crime

Characters

Johnny Earthquake; Noface (villain); Roland Van Hemingway; Rusty Ringle; Gloria Van Hemingway; Narda

Reprints

• in Human Fly (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)

Indexer Notes

last previous appearance in THE BOOK OF COMICS #1

Statue of Doom! (Table of Contents: 6)

Bronze Man / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Alvin Hollingsworth ? (signed as Alec Hope)

Pencils

Alvin Hollingsworth (signed as Alec Hope)

Inks

Alvin Hollingsworth (signed as Alec Hope)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Bronze Man! Still alive!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Bronze Man [Major Randy Ronald]; Judge Buzz Smith (Rand's father); Rand Ronald Smith, Jr.; Bull Gambos (villain); Gambo's gang (villains, all die?)

Synopsis

Randy gets off the train and spots a statue named after him in appreciation for saving the life of the local judge years back, and he visits the courtroom where the judge is sentencing a criminal to prison. While seated there, Randy overhears a threat to the judge's life and tries to follow the plotters, but instead sees the judge's son kidnapped. He discovers that the statue is loaded with explosives, timed to go off during a citizen's committee speech to be given by the judge.

Reprints

• in Human Fly (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #1 (1958)
• in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #91 (2013)
• in Super Weird Heroes (IDW, 2016 series) #[nn] (November 2016)

Keywords

kidnapping; statues; time bombs; waterfalls

Indexer Notes

Next appearance in Jo-Jo Comics #7.

Credits added by Craig Delich.

Alec Hope is a pen name for Bronze Man creator/artist, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, and appeared on the strips that Hollingsworth drew (courtesy of the Who's Who).

Despite the text which specifically says Bronze Man wears a "bronze mask" to conceal his "disfigured" face, this story (and the other Bronze Man stories) has been redrawn so the hero does not wear a mask and his face is normal.

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