Blue Beetle
#8
(August 1941)
Fox,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- Bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-05-21
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fox Feature Comic FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox
Issue Notes
The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 3.
[no title indexed]
Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The Blue Beetle fights to save America from Nazis!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle
Indexer Notes
credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes.
Keith Chandler : Ashe draws the Beetle's cowl with a prominent scarab on the forehead, only found elsewhere in this issue on the newspaper strip reprint given the title 'The Murder Miniatures'.
Radium Threat
Blue Beetle / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- ? [as Charles Nicholas] (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- ? [as Charles Nicholas] (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Smashing down upon the Underworld rackets...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Porky Hog (Intro, villain); Scorny; Doc Franz
- Synopsis
- Porky Hog steals radium from the hospital to build a great destructive weapon.
Indexer Notes
credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes
[Dr. Krug's Explosive Gorillas]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ? [as Charles Nicholas] (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dan spots trouble --
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Dr. Krug (Intro, villain); Dr. Franz
- Synopsis
- Dr. Krug uses gorillas coated in dynamite to take over the city. Well, that was the plan anyway.
Indexer Notes
credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes
[The Crime Dealer]
Dynamo / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Louis Cazeneuve (credited as Harold Weber)
- Inks
- Louis Cazeneuve (credited as Harold Weber)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Like a lightning flash...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dynamo [Jim Andrews]; The Crime Dealer (Intro; villain), [Morell]; Sally Brandt; Renard
- Synopsis
- The Crime Dealer threatens to blow up the Brandt hotel unless blackmail is paid.
Indexer Notes
Takes place between WEIRD COMICS #17 and 18. Credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes/
Keith Chandler : While there is no entry for Harold Weber in the Who's Who, he may be the writer here.
Red Cross Dog
text story / 2 pages
- Script
- Nathaniel Nitkin (credited as N. N. Nathaniel)
- Pencils
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (2 spot illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lieutenant D'Oursac leaned low over his horse.
- Genre
- adventure; animal
- Characters
- Lieutenant D'Oursac
[The Murder Miniatures]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dan Garret and Mike Mannigan are riding along a street...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; William Brent (villain); Jean Brent; George Brent; Smythe; Werner
- Synopsis
- The Beetle investigates a businessman's death. The only clue is a miniature painting.
- Reprints
- from Blue Beetle daily (Fox Features Syndicate) 1940-11-xx - 1940-11-xx (final sequence)
[Gagon's Explosive Device]
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ? [as Charles Nicholas] (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I got the gadget...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Officer Mike Mannigan; Gagon (Intro, villain); Joan Mason; Dr. Franz; Drag
- Synopsis
- Gagon has stolen a machine that can cause explosions from a distance and demands the keys to the state bank or he will blow up the city.
Indexer Notes
credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes
[The Remote-Controlled Death-Device]
Dynamite Thor / comic story / 5 pages
- Script
- ? [as Wright Lincoln] (credited)
- Pencils
- Dan Gormley (credited as Wright Lincoln)
- Inks
- ? [as Wright Lincoln] (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Blasting his was thru the skies...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Dynamite Thor [Peter Thor]; Zonn (villain); Ludwig (villain); the Countess (villain); Glenda
- Synopsis
- Zonn, a foreign agent, uses his radio compass to blow up arms shipments.
Indexer Notes
Final appearance. Credits from Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.'s notes.
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["The Blue Beetle fights to save America from Nazis!"]
Blue Beetle -
1.
Radium Threat
Blue Beetle -
2.
[Dr. Krug's Explosive Gorillas]
Blue Beetle -
3.
[The Crime Dealer]
Dynamo -
4.
Red Cross Dog
-
5.
[The Murder Miniatures]
Blue Beetle -
6.
[Gagon's Explosive Device]
Blue Beetle -
7.
[The Remote-Controlled Death-Device]
Dynamite Thor
This issue was modified by, among others
- Keith Chandler
- Del Gruber
- Michael Hoskin
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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