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Issue: Blue Beetle #31 Public Domain
Publication Date: June 1944
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Issues: #31 of 40 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: 05/12/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 10 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Victor Fox
Disclose Notes: The Blue Beetle June 1944 No 31. Published monthly by Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc. Office of Publication 32 North High St. Akron, O. Editorial and executive offices 10 East 43rd St, New York City. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass under the Act of March 3, 1879. Re-entry at New York NY. Price 10 cents per issue. Subscription rates:12 issues in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain $1.20
On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1944 Periodicals, page 255
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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
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Blue Beetle Clips the Nips

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Japanese soldiers; American soldiers
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Artist revision from Gerald Altman ? to Stoner per Ken Quattro's article in Alter Ego #118 (July 2013).

Fox resumes publication of this title.
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The Adventure of the Crumbling Skyscraper

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Admiral Mason (Joan's father)
First Line: What fiendish business is this...
Synopsis: German saboteurs blow up a building and leave evidence that the Beetle is responsible. The Beetle uses his super powers to rebuild the entire building by morning, but the saboteurs continue their campaign to blacken the Beetle's name.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Beetle has super powers, including the ability to grow to giant size. He also has an airplane, the Beetle Mobile, the Beetlebird and a black light that turns him invisible.
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Military Humor
First Line: Ah g'wan away
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler : Although a previous indexer has credited Jourdain with pencils, by comparison with the Blue Beetle story immediately preceding it, this looks to be the work of E.C. Stoner.

Five gag panels with a military theme.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Minute Mystery
First Line: I'm good. They'll never find out.
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Pages: 1
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Peril In the Pacific

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Colonel Denton; Lt. Adams; Lt. Morrow; Gestapo agents (villains); the Japanese (villains)
First Line: The enemy forces lay in wait...
Synopsis: Dan Garrett is given the assignment of protecting Colonel Denton who is delivering information of the utmost importance. But Gestapo agents infiltrate the plane Denton is flying on, and Dan and the Colonel end up stranded on a "Jap infested" island in the Pacific.
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Keith Chandler : Once again, this appears more to be the art of E.C. Stoner.
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They Came to Destroy America

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: childrens, war
Character(s): Jerry; Hans
First Line: This is a story of a boy and his dog...
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Pages: 2
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The Whistling Death

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure
Character(s): Joan Mason
First Line: The most puzzling murder mystery...
Synopsis: Joan solves the mystery of a broadway booking agent's murder.
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In Content Item: FlagAll Great Comics #[nn] published January 1944
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Disclose Notes: Joan Mason is a continuing character in the Blue Beetle strip, and this is her first outing solo.
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The Very Salty Tale of the O'Brine Twins

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, humorous
Character(s): Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine; Cap'n McArsenic; Prince Annokanoanock the Fourteenth
First Line: From now on, Brother Waterman...
Synopsis: After being declared 4-F by the draft board, the O'Brine twins join the Merchant Marine. There they foil a submarine attack and volunteer to sail the captured submarine back to Washington. Only trouble is, they don't know the way!
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Pages: 6
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Buried Alive

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Marsh; Hau Pirl (Japanese spy); Dum Jon (Japanese spy)
First Line: I'm assigning you to guard Miss Mason...
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 10
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Coxwell and Glaisher

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational, non-fiction
Feature(s): True Story
Character(s): Coxwell; Glaisher
First Line: Coxwell and Glaisher, 82 years ago, rose to nearly 7 miles...
Synopsis: On 5 September, 1862, Coxwell and Glaisher ascended from a village in England in a hot air balloon to a height of more than seven miles.
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