Digital Comic Museum - Blue Beetle 004 (diff ver2) -fixed


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Fall, 1940 - 400 dpi scan of a coverless book with damage.
Front and back covers from Heritage, IFC and IBC from Fantastic Comics #11. Indicia and repairs to pages 1 and 2 from existing Marble River scan. Featuring four Blue Beetle stories (three reprinted from the rare Blue Beetle newspaper strip covering April 18-June 29, 1940), two K-51 stories, and Captain Savage.

Scanned for the 12th Anniversary of the Digital Comic Museum.

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Issue: #4
Published: Fall 1940, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Victor Fox
Color: Color Dimensions: 7 1/2"? X 10 1/4"? [pre-War]; 7 1/4" X 10 1/8" [<= 1948]; 6 7/8" X 10 1/8" [>= 1950] Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Vol. 35, No. 3.

Comic Contents:

Cover (1 page)
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Credits:	Pencils: Edd Ashe ? \| Inks: Edd Ashe ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Blue Beetle

Comic Story (15 pages)	Blitz and the Dynamite Formula
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Synopsis:	Blitz tries to steal the liquid dynamite formula to give to his fatherland.
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice ? \| Inks: Louis Cazeneuve ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Joan Mason (introduction, NY Chronicle Reporter) Blitz (introduction, Death, Villain) Mike Mannigan Dr. Franz

Comic Story (11 pages)	The Dope Smuggling Ring
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
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.
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice ? \| Inks: Louis Cazeneuve ?
Genre:	Superhero
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] Snow Brody Helen Harmon Police Commissioner Harmon Dr. Franz Philip Redon

Comic Story (12 pages)	The Man In the Black Robe
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Synopsis:	The Beetle investigates a stolen corpse and a haunted house.
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice ? \| Inks: Louis Cazeneuve ?
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] Mary Parnell (villain) Egg-Head (villain) Mike Mannigan Edna Parnell

Text Story (2 pages)	The Mystery of the Vanishing Corpses
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Credits:	Script: Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel] \| Pencils: ? (illustrations) \| Inks: ? (illustrations) \| Letters: typeset
Genre:	Superhero

Comic Story (10 pages)	The Ghosts of Denton Hall
Featuring:	Blue Beetle
Synopsis:	Rajput brings Lorraine Denton messages from her grandfather from beyond the grave.
Credits:	Pencils: Pierce Rice ? \| Inks: Louis Cazeneuve ?
Characters:	Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] Rajput (introduction, Villain) John Kent (introduction, Villain) Lorraine Denton Doane Mike Mannigan

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Three European Dictators
Featuring:	K-51
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner [as Willis B. Rensie] \| Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell

Comic Story (5 pages)	The Return of Lin Sun
Featuring:	K-51
Credits:	Script: Will Eisner [as Willis B. Rensie] \| Pencils: Bob Powell \| Inks: Bob Powell

Comic Story (3 pages)	Captured by Sin Lee
Featuring:	Captain Savage
Credits:	Pencils: Art Peddy? \| Inks: Art Peddy?

The data in the above section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database™ under a Creative Commons Attribution License.