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Issue: Blue Beetle #20 Public Domain
Publication Date: April 1943
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Issues: #20 of 19 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagHolyoke
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Holyoke Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 12 (8 stories, 1 cover)
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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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Assets2
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Feature(s): Flying Tiger Squadron
First Line: See the Flying Tiger Squadron!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover logo says "New Blue Beetle" but indicia is still just "The Blue Beetle"
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Follow The Adventures of the Blue Beetle

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Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation ,etc

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Disclose Notes: Statement of Ownership: Holyoke Publishing Company 1 Appleton ST Holyoke, Mass.
Editor: Charles Quinlan 52 Vanderbilt Ave, NY, NY
Business Manager: Sherman H. Bowles 32 Cypress St, Springfield, Mass
No owners named. Signed Sherman H. Bowles, Treasurer
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Contents

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Aero Plant Sabotage

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett); Mike Mannigan; Yama; Nogi; Mitushi
Synopsis: When the Big Town aero plant is blown up, Dan stumbles upon a quartet of Japanese laundrymen who are actually saboteurs. They try to drown him in a laundry bag.
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Disclose Notes: Beetle's secret id misspelled "Garrett" in this story. Beetle's location is named "Big Town". Formerly credited to Charles Sultan, who probably never worked for Holyoke.
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Wanted Vern (Machine Gun) Miller

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Genres: crime, informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): Crime Reporter
Character(s): Verne Miller; Detective O'Malley; Lanchetti; Frank Nash; Pretty Boy Floyd; Bugs
Synopsis: Miller is a gun for hire. He's hired by Lanchetti to rub out Detective O'Malley. Then they want him to free notorious criminal Frank Nash from FBI custody. Things go badly and Nash is killed, so the criminals put out a hit on Miller.
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Scoop Resigns

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Genres: espionage, humorous, war
Feature(s): Scoop McLuke
Character(s): Scoop McLuke
Synopsis: McLuke goes undercover in Europe for the real scoop on the war.
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Sinbad the Sailor

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Genres: fantasy
Feature(s): Tales from the Arabian Nights
Character(s): Sinbad the Sailor
Synopsis: Sinbad is shipwrecked on a lonely island where he finds a Roc's egg, and two evil genies.
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Introducing the Tiger Squadron

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Tiger Squadron
Character(s): Tiger; Chicago; Harvard; Confusion; Capt Ronald Hampshire; Red
Synopsis: Stuck up Capt Hampshire tries to whip the rowdy Tiger Squadron into "military shape".
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Hero

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Submarine Sabotage

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Blue Beetle; Anna (villain); Smith; Doctor Hutchinson (villain, dies); Joyce Hutchinson
Synopsis: The U.S. Military asks for The Beetle's help to investigate sabotage at a submarine base. Dr. Hutchinson uses his own daughter as unsuspecting bait to help capture the Beetle. But even after her father is killed, Joan bears no grudges towards the Beetle.
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The Monkey Fencer

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Genres: historical
Character(s): Duke De Montray (The Monkey Fencer); Duke de Gromais; Rosalind de la Varr; Louis XIV
Synopsis: The Duke de Montray is the greatest fencer the country of France ever knew. He takes on the Duke de Gromais for the honor of one of the Queen's Ladies In Waiting.
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