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Issue: Blue Beetle #1
Publication Date: June 1967
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Issues: #1 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: 02/21/1967
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Dick Giordano
Disclose Notes: On sale date given in Judomaster #94.

"A few thousand copies" of this issue were printed with captions missing from the last panels of the Blue Beetle and Question stories, according to the letters page in issue #2. Presses were stopped and the captions were added for the rest of the print run.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age US
Paper Stock: Newsprint; Glossy cover
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
Disclose Images1
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Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Beetle; Question
Character(s): Blue Beetle; Question
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #1 published January 1977
as Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Action Heroes Archives #2 published July 2007
as Blue Beetle #1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Bugs the Squids

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Ditko (plot); D. C. Glanzman ? (dialogue); (see notes)
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset [as A. Machine]
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Blue Beetle
Character(s): Blue Beetle; Squid Gang
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #1 published January 1977
as Bugs the Squids [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Action Heroes Archives #2 published July 2007
as Bugs the Squids [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: Continued from Captain Atom. D.C. Glanzman is credited with scripting but 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)
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The Beetle's Nest

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Dick Giordano
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko (illustration)
Inker(s): Steve Ditko (illustration)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Excerpts from letters about the Blue Beetle, then appearing in Captain Atom. Small illustration of Blue Beetle.
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Who is the Question?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Steve Ditko
Penciller(s): Steve Ditko
Inker(s): Steve Ditko
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset [as A. Machine]
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Question
Character(s): The Question (1st appearance); Aristotle "Tot" Rodor (1st; Cameo); Lou Dicer; Jim Lark
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #1 published January 1977
as Who is the Question? [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Action Heroes Archives #2 published July 2007
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7

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