Blue Beetle #4

(Fall 1940)

[Blitz and the Dynamite Formula] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pierce Rice ?

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Joan Mason (introduction, NY Chronicle reporter); Blitz (introduction, death, villain); Mike Mannigan; Dr. Franz

Synopsis:

Blitz tries to steal the liquid dynamite formula to give to his fatherland.

Indexer Notes

previous credits given to Charles Nicholas. Dan uses vitamin 2X to gain super-powers in this story.

[The Dope Smuggling Ring] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pierce Rice ?

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Snow Brody; Helen Harmon; Police Commissioner Harmon; Dr. Franz; Philip Redon

Synopsis:

Snow Brody sells marijuana cigarrettes to kids and earns the Beetle's wrath. Dan gets shot by a sub machine gun and needs a blood transfusion from Helen Harmon, but vitamin 2X speeds his recovery.

Reprints:

• from Blue Beetle daily strip (1940, Fox Features Syndicate)(April 18-May 11, 1940)

Indexer Notes

Garret uses vitamin 2X.
Adapted from Blue Beetle radio episode of 5/15/1940.

[The Man In the Black Robe] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pierce Rice ?

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mary Parnell (villain); Egg-Head (villain); Mike Mannigan; Edna Parnell

Synopsis:

The Beetle investigates a stolen corpse and a haunted house.

Reprints:

• in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #7 (No Date [circa January 2009])
• from Blue Beetle daily strip (1940, Fox Features Syndicate)(June 3- June 29, 1940)

The Mystery of the Vanishing Corpses (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Nathaniel Nitkin (N. N. Nathaniel)

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Reprints:

• in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #4 (No Date [circa 2008 Mars])

[The Ghosts of Denton Hall] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pierce Rice ?

Inks:

Louis Cazeneuve ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Characters:

Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Rajput (introduction, villain); John Kent (introduction, villain); Lorraine Denton; Doane; Mike Mannigan

Synopsis:

Rajput brings Lorraine Denton messages from her grandfather from beyond the grave.

Reprints:

• in Continuum (JMF, 2007 series) #5 (No Date [circa June 2008])
• from Blue Beetle Daily strip (1940, Fox Features) (May 13-June 3,1940)

[The Three European Dictators] (Table of Contents)

K-51 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner [as Willis B. Rensie]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #9 (January 1940)

[The Return of Lin Sun] (Table of Contents)

K-51 / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Will Eisner [as Willis B. Rensie]

Pencils:

Bob Powell

Inks:

Bob Powell

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Wonderworld Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #8 (December 1939)

[Captured by Sin Lee] (Table of Contents)

Captain Savage / comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Art Peddy?

Inks:

Art Peddy?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Reprints: show reprint note before migration

• from Mystery Men Comics (Fox, 1939 series) #6 (January 1940)