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Issue: Blue Beetle #18 Public Domain
Publication Date: January 1943
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Issues: #18 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHolyoke
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc.
On Sale Date: 1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 13 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Sparky becomes Spunky in this issue.

Office of publication: 1 Appleton Street, Holyoke, Mass. Editorial and Executive offices: 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. Copyright 1942 by Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup] [aka Sparky]; The Red Knight
First Line: Who is the Red Knight?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
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Don't Miss the January Issue of Catman

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Catman
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Indicia at the bottom of the page.

Promotional advertisement for what would be Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1942 Series) #v3#7 (17) (January 1943).
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The Case of the Red Knight!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup]; Joan Mason (reporter); Bentley (jeweler, death); Carl Lewis (jeweler, death); Count de Beaufort (villain, death, flashback); The Red Knight (flashback, death); The Red Knight [Count Henry Renaud] (villain)
First Line: A precious jewel, a fabulous emerald is the prize in a game of death.
Synopsis: Count Renaud enters the offices of two jewelers, announcing he has the fabulous Beaufort Emerald. Joan is on hand, wanting the story for her newspaper, and is invited to dinner at Mr. Bentley's that evening to get the story. Officer Dan Garret, knowing that the emerald carries with it a history of death for its owners, decides to be around....just in case, and learns that, during the time of the Crusades, the Red Knight, possessing the emerald, stops to rest for the evening and is killed for the gem by Count Beaufort. When the Knight and curse on the gem seems to return, the Beetle steps in.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: A new version of the Red Knight is introduced in Blue Beetle (Charlton, 1964 series) #5.

Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
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Read the Catman and the Kitten

Photo Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Catman
Character(s): Catman; Kitten
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promotional advertisement for Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1942 Series) #v3#7 (17) (January 1943) including cover reproduction.
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The Blue Beetle Starring Spunky.. in The Case of the Magic Lamp

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup]
First Line: The Sultan of the great city was a wicked one...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 15
Disclose Notes: Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Papoose
Character(s): Papoose (introduction, only appearance); Big Moose (father of Papoose)
First Line: How many times Big Moose have to tell...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
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A Mission of Death!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): V-Man
First Line: Can anyone enter Nazi occupied France and return alive?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
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Six-Gun Law

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: western
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, humorous, war
Feature(s): Likkity Split
First Line: Since his crushing defeat at the North Pole...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 3
Disclose Notes: Last appearance.
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The Sight-Seeing Bus Mystery!!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup]
First Line: Times Square in New York City is often referred to as 'The Crossroads of the World.'
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Listed as: "Art and Editorial by Cromwell Bates and Dudley Rutherford." on the splash page.

Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).

On the third panel of the eighth page, the dialogue box states, "Once more Wes and Sandy return to the sight seeing bus." This reference indicates that this was most probably a re-worked story originally intended to be a Sandman and Sandy story. It is likely the story was originally rejected by DC and redone for Holyoke's Blue Beetle.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: military
Feature(s): Spark Stevens
Character(s): Spark Stevens; Chuck; Myra Lee
First Line: They're here again, folks!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: navy
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Free with this Offer

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Holyoke Publishing Co.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.

Advertisement for the book series Wonders of Science, Simplified from Holyoke Publishing Co. of New York.
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Jim Prentice Famous Inventor of Electronic Football, Baseball, Etc., Announces

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ? (illustrations)
Inker(s): ? (illustrations)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Electric Game Co., Inc.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

Advertisement for the Jim Prentice electronic game, Bomb'em with Blast'em from Electric Game Co., Inc. of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

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