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Issue: Blue Beetle #5 Public Domain
Publication Date: November 1940
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Issues: #5 of 40 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: A Fox Feature Comic FPView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fox Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/20/1940
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1941 Periodicals, page 16
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Publication Type: Comic Book
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
Format Notes:  
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Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagContinuum #4 published March 2008 as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]
First Line: The Blue Beetle ripped through the wall of the gangsters' hideout
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Death From Scrag

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Scrag (Villain; Intro; Dies); Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Dr. Franz
First Line: Smashing down upon the Underworld rackets...
Synopsis: Scrag believes he's the Napolean of Crime and threatens to destroy the city unless he gets 10 million dollars.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Kober's Lightning Weapon

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Kober (Villain; Intro, Dies); Mike Mannigan; Dr. Franz; Joan Mason
First Line: Look! The handbills are coming from nowhere...
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Case of the Missing Blueprint

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Frenzo (villain; intro); Rack (Intro); Mike Mannigan; Dr. Franz; Joan Mason
First Line: The Apex Inventions Company meets...
Synopsis: Blue Beetle chases after some stolen blueprints.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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The Beetle's New Powers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? [as Charles Nicholas]
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Vito Catelli (villain); Big Bill O'Rory; Little Lulu (gangster, NOT the same as the Dell character!); Dr.Franz; Mike Mannigan; Charley Storm; Catelli's daughter
First Line: And this is the Vitamin 2 X capsule you discovered?
Synopsis: Blue Beetle gains super-powers from Dr. Frenz's vitamin 2X for the first time. Meanwhile Little Lulu declares war on Catelli.
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Reprint Notes: from Blue Beetle daily (Fox Features Syndicate) 1940-03-18? - 1940-04-14?
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Disclose Notes: precedes the stories in Blue Beetle #3 and 4.
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The Blue Beetle and the Hi-Jack Combine

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Killer Agerrs; Dr. Franz; Police Commissioner Harmon
First Line: Patrolman Dan Garret caught his breath.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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The Oasis of Li-Wang

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dr. Fung; Dan Barrister; Li Wang
First Line: Dr. Fung and his young assistant...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagWonder Comics #1 published May 1939
was The Oasis of Li-Wang [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Signed "Dean" in penultimate panel.
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Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: espionage
Feature(s): Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence
Character(s): Lt. Drake of the Naval Intelligence; Dan Krard (villain, intro); Miss Henner (Intro)
First Line: In a dingy Chinatown alley...
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Men Comics #5 published December 1939
was Big-Shot Krard's Dope Ring [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 5
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In the Underworld of Paris

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Zanzibar the Magician
Character(s): Zanzibar the Magician [alias Sir Cravel]; Simone (intro, villain)
First Line: Three murders in one week!
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagMystery Men Comics #4 published November 1939
was In the Underworld of Paris [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 3

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