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Issue: Blue Beetle #5

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Publication Date: October 1986

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Issues: #5 of 24 Issues (66 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 07/10/1986

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893173110

Price: $0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Karen Berger

Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #29.

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

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3 Blue Beetle #5 [Direct]

Blue Beetle #5 [Canadian]

Blue Beetle #5 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

The Question Is Back--And the Answer Is Murder!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): Paris Cullins (signed)

Inker(s): Bruce Patterson (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Todd Klein

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Blue Beetle

Character(s): Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Question [Vic Sage]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Letters credit from http://kleinletters.com/.

Ask the Right Question!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Len Wein

Penciller(s): Paris Cullins

Inker(s): Bruce Patterson

Colorist(s): Gene D'Angelo

Letterer(s): John Costanza

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): Blue Beetle

Character(s): Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Question [Vic Sage]; Lou Crocker; The Wild Ones [Brandon; Cisco; Twitch; Pony; Fringe; Slab] (street gang); Jerry (cop); Brent (cop); Vincent Perignon (gangster); Hugo (gangster); The Muse [Richard Perignon]; Rodent (informant for Vic Sage); Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (Flashback; Cameo; not in costume); Lt. Max Fisher; Detective Frank Holt; Police Captain Hernandez; Melody Case; Thomas Kord (Cameo, photo)

Synopsis: Blue Beetle and the Question are both tracking down a street gang called The Wild Ones. When they realize they are both after the same gang they decide to team up.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 22

Job Number: G-2681

Notes: Featuring the official DC debut of The Question, the hero who shared the Charlton Blue Beetle series. (He had a 1 panel cameo in Crisis on Infinite Earths #6.) Here, the Question is a somewhat standard masked character, as opposed to the off-beat character in the Question's own DC series.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Len Wein

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): The Beetle's Nest

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Pages: 2

Job Number: L-2458

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Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Dick Giordano

Letterer(s): Typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Meanwhile...

Synopsis: Dick Giordano answers a readers questions.

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Pages: 1