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Issue: Blue Beetle #3
Publication Date: October 1967
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Issues: #3 of 5 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagCharlton
Brand: Charlton ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Charlton Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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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
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #3 published January 1977
as The Mood is Madness When the Blue Beetle Mixes it with the Madmen! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #2 published January 1978
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Action Heroes Archives #2 published July 2007
as Blue Beetle #3 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Madmen

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Madmen (villains, introduction); Detective Fisher; Tracey; Dan Garret
First Line: A reign of fear and madness is created by The Madmen
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #3 published January 1977
as The Madmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]minus one page
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #2 published January 1978
as The Madmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Action Heroes Archives #2 published July 2007
as The Madmen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Disclose Notes: 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."

The Madmen appear next in AMERICOMICS SPECIAL (AC, 1983 Series) #1.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Uncle Bob, Dave Caplan, and Gene Reed.
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Murder at a Square Construction

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: This is unbelievable! How could one of the A Square construction owners be drowned...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagBlue Beetle #3 published January 1977
as Murder at a Square Construction [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: 6
Job Number: B-1023
Disclose Notes: 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."

Lettering is credited to "A. Machine"
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Action-heroes? We got 'em!!!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: promo ad for Thunderbolt (Charlton, 1966 Series), The Peacemaker (Charlton, 1967 Series), The Blue Beetle (Charlton, 1967 Series), Judo Master (Charlton, 1966 Series), and Captain Atom (Charlton, 1965 Series).

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