Blue Beetle
#3
(July-August 1940)
Fox,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1940-06-01
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox
Issue Notes
On sale date given in Blue Beetle #2. Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1940 Periodicals, page 270, lists a publication date of June 5, 1940.
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
- Reprints
in 
[Case of the Kidnapped Girls]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 31 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Charles Nicholas (signed)
- Inks
- Charles Nicholas (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Smashing down on Underworld rackets...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; The Doc (introduction, death, villain); Mike Mannigan; Spike (villain); Mademoiselle Monet
- Synopsis
- Dan uses his vitamin 2X induced powers to rescue several socially prominent girls who have mysteriously disappeared, but first he has to escape from a giant eagle. The mad scientist known only as Doc intends to combine parts of the girls into creating the "perfect woman".
The Blue Beetle's Quiet Night
Blue Beetle / text story / 2 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dan Garret walked quietly...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Dave Morlin; Charlie Storm (reporter); Police Lieutenant Powell; Dr. Franz; Bugs Carrott; Big Boy Riley (gangster); Judge Cornell (villain)
[The Mastermind of Crime]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 31 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Pierce Rice (credited as Walter Swift)
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve (credited as Walter Swift)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- One night, a series of explosions...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; The Mastermind of Crime [Brian Downhill] (introduction, villain); Police Commissioner Harmon; Doc Franz; Charley Storm; Helen Harmon
- Synopsis
- Dan Garret is injured battling the Mastermind of Crime and has to be hospitalized. But he fakes being kidnapped so he has a free hand to end the crime wave. Meanwhile banker Brian Downhill demands the resignation of the Commissioner.
Indexer Notes
Blue Beetle uses his Beetle Mobile. And Vitamin 2X.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle -
1.
[Case of the Kidnapped Girls]
Blue Beetle -
2.
The Blue Beetle's Quiet Night
Blue Beetle -
3.
[The Mastermind of Crime]
Blue Beetle
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