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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: 16 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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 interior; glossy cover
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids!

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Letterer(s): typeset (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Squid Gang
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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)]
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Pages: 1
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Bugs the Squids

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset [as A. Machine] (credited)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Squid Gang [Joe; Todd Van III; Pete]
First Line: We should almost be there...
Synopsis: Blue Beetle fights against the Squid Gang.
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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)]
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Pages: 18
Job Number: B-724
Disclose Notes: Continued from Captain Atom.

There are conflicting accounts on the D.C.(Dave) Glanzman credit. 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).

Ditko, in Robin Snyder's The Legend of the Blue Beetle (the Hero comics # 29, Autumn, 2019) wrote, "The Blue Beetle (my version) and the Question were my stories but there was "editing" and revising to some degree by someone. Giordano added the Glanzman name to my stories. I do not know why, when and where."
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First Line: Never look short again! Now you can be taller instantly!
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Disclose Notes: After page 4 of Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids.
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First Line: The greatest subscription offer ever made!!
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Disclose Notes: Before page 5 of Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids.
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First Line: Buy below wholesale
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: After page 9 of Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids.
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First Line: Polaris nuclear sub
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Honor House Products.
Before page 10 of Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids.
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First Line: Boys here's a swell way to make $1 to $5 weekly in your spare time and win dandy prizes too!
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First Line: Order by mail specials
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Disclose Notes: Before page 18 of Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids.
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First Line: The following are excerpts from letters addressed to the Captain's Column after our revised and revitalized all-new BLUE BEETLE first appeared as a companion feature in CAPTAIN ATOM.
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Disclose Notes: Excerpts from letters about the Blue Beetle, then appearing in Captain Atom. Small illustration of Blue Beetle.

"As many of you may know, Gary Friedrich has moved over to Marvel to write for Stan Lee! Our loss is their gain! He leaves with our regrets at having lost a good writer, but takes with him our most sincere wishes for a very successful career."
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Who is the Question?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Bob Hasel (news staff); Al Kert (news staff); Nora Lace (news staff); Fred Pine (news staff); Sam Starr (president and founder of W.W.B.); Celia Starr (daughter of Sam); Syd Starr (son of Sam); Lou Dicer (head of a gambling ring); Jim Lark (of W.W.B., crook); Nick (crook); Captain Lash; Mae
First Line: Vic Sage, hard-hitting TV newscaster...
Synopsis: Vic Sage busts a gambling ring as the Question.
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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
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Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Title of feature as given : QUESTION, superimposed over a larger question mark.
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First Line: Stamps shop by mail
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Disclose Notes: The Chet Atkins course is sold by Victor Specialties.
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First Line: 48" "talking" monster from outer space
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Disclose Notes: Sold by Regency Mail Order.
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First Line: Record riot! 36 hit songs
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First Line: Now you can buy Fords, Chevrolets, Dodges below wholesale!!
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Disclose Notes: Ad for purchasing automobiles, electronics, and home furnishings at discounts.
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First Line: 100 pc. toy soldier set
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Disclose Notes: Lucky Products ad.
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