Blue Beetle #5

(November 1968)

Faces the Destroyer of Heroes (Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Ditko (plot); D. C. Glanzman ? (credited) (dialogue, see notes)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-1241

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Boris Ebar, art critic, lectures at a hub city museum...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Question; Destroyer of Heroes (villain)

Reprints

• in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2007)
• in The Hero Comics (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2017 series) #29 (Autumn 2019)

Indexer Notes

There are conflicting accounts on the D.C.(Dave) Glanzman credit. Editor-in-chief Dick Giordano has said they asked Glanzman to use his name (as per Ditko's request to not be credited) and Dick said Glanzman agreed (Comic Book Artist #9).

Ditko, in Robin Snyder's The Legend of the Blue Beetle (the Hero comics # 29, Autumn, 2019) wrote "The Blue Beetle (my version) and the Question were my stories but there was "editing" and revising to some degree by someone. Giordano added the Glanzman name to my stories. I do not know why, when and where."

Lettering is credited to "A. Machine"

Prisoner 2222 (Table of Contents: 2)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Because of the insistence of the Press I feel the time has come to issue a complete statement in regard to the application of Walter Freders...

Genre

adventure

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

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Sam Glanzman; Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Inks

Sam Glanzman; Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A startling view from the gods

Indexer Notes

Promo ad showing the covers of Hercules #7, November 1968 and Space Adventures #3, September 1968.

[The Critic] (Table of Contents: 4)

The Question / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Steve Ditko (credited) (plot); D. C. Glanzman ? (credited) (dialogue, see notes)

Pencils

Steve Ditko (credited)

Inks

Steve Ditko (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-1254

First Line of Dialogue or Text

His secret known only to Prof. Rodor, Vic Sage assumes the identity of The Question to help his fight against injustice!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Question

Reprints

• in The Action Heroes Archives (DC, 2004 series) #2 ([July] 2007)
• in The Hero Comics (Robin Snyder and Steve Ditko, 2017 series) #29 (Autumn 2019)

Indexer Notes

Continued in part from Blue Beetle story.

There are conflicting accounts on the D.C.(Dave) Glanzman credit. Editor-in-chief Dick Giordano has said they asked Glanzman to use his name (as per Ditko's request to not be credited) and Dick said Glanzman agreed (Comic Book Artist #9).

Ditko, in Robin Snyder's The Legend of the Blue Beetle (the Hero comics # 29, Autumn, 2019) wrote "The Blue Beetle (my version) and the Question were my stories but there was "editing" and revising to some degree by someone. Giordano added the Glanzman name to my stories. I do not know why, when and where."