Blue Beetle
#10
(December 1941)
Fox,
1940 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- bimonthly
- On-sale Date
- 1941-09-17
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Fox Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Fox Feature Comic FP
- Editing
- Victor Fox (editor)
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. 4.
[no title indexed]
The Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Roland Patenaude (signed as Pat)
- Inks
- Roland Patenaude (signed as Pat)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
The Case of the Burning Death
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Joan Mason; Dr. Frantz (druggist); Leo Sugar (villain, introduction)
- Synopsis
- Drug manufacturer Leo Sugar murders his partner when he won't let him use his new drug for crime.
The Corpse Who Walked
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas) (signed)
- Inks
- Al Carreño (under house name Charles Nicholas) (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Joan Mason; un-named tramp (death); Dr. Frantz (druggist); Marcus Hook (villain, banker); Crimp (villain, lawyer); Monty (villain, Hook's cousin)
- Synopsis
- After stealing a cool half million in bonds, Marcus Hook attempts to falsify his death and almost kills Dr. Franz in the process.
- Reprints
in Curtain Call for Death
Blue Beetle / comic story / 11 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Lord Summer; Dr. Franz (druggist); Jane Bullock; James Bourne (villain, introduction); Scribbler (villain, forger)
- Synopsis
- Scribbler is busy forging checks.
The Monster of the Swamp
Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Joan Mason; The Swamp Master (villain, introduction); Swamp Master's gang (villains, introduction for all)
- Synopsis
- A fake monster hijacks trains by running them into an abandoned mine.
[The Gorilla and the Gangsters]
The Gorilla / comic story / 5.5 pages
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- The Gorilla [Jack Castle] (villain); Elsa Bonn; Renard (villain, introduction, death)
- Synopsis
- The mysterious half-human, half-gorilla kills notorious mobster Renard and takes over his gang, then kidnaps Elsa Bonn, one of the two people who know who is really is (or was), in order to use her as a front for some of his plots to gain power.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Carson Bank; gorilla
Indexer Notes
Last appearance, even though the last panel states he will return in a future issue of Blue Beetle.
The last half page of the story is an illustrated promo for a new hero to appear in the pages of Fantastic Comics: The Gladiator.
Bill Black states that Jerry Bails' "Collector's Guide: The First Heroic Age" from 1969 and Howard Keltner's "Index to Golden Age Comics Books" from 1976 both list the feature.
Bails' Who's Who does not list the feature nor Harry Graves.
[The Wonderful Wish]
Davy the Wish Master / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Arturo Cazeneuve ? (signed as Arthur Pierce)
- Inks
- Pierce Rice ? (signed as Arthur Pierce)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Davy; The Grogans; the Devil; Bumper
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
The Blue Beetle -
1.
The Case of the Burning Death
Blue Beetle -
2.
The Corpse Who Walked
Blue Beetle -
3.
Curtain Call for Death
Blue Beetle -
4.
The Monster of the Swamp
Blue Beetle -
5.
[The Gorilla and the Gangsters]
The Gorilla -
6.
Coastguard in Action
-
7.
[The Wonderful Wish]
Davy the Wish Master -
8.
[Arsonists at Sea]
Blackbird
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- Bob Hughes
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- Tony R. Rose
- Ramon Schenk
- Jim Van Dore
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