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Issue: Blue Beetle #38

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Publication Date: January 1945

Issue #38
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Issues: #38 of 40 Issues

Title:

Variant: unnamed

Rating:

Publisher: Flag

Fox

Brand: A Fox Feature Publication FF

Indicia Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate Inc.

On Sale Date: 04/04/1945

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

Notes: On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1945 Periodicals, page 147

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Format

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

Format Notes:

Reprinted In1

1 Content Item
- The Mystery of the Tolling Bell [Story on Interior Page(s)]1

reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.

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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Title Page

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Content Items (10 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

First Line: Your No.1 Pin-up

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Artist revision from E.C. Stoner ? to Stoner per Ken Quattro's article in Alter Ego #118 (July 2013).

The Adventure Beneath the Sea

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Patsy Ruth Cook; Harry Duncan; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Omar

First Line: Blue Beetle, in reality Dan Garret...

Synopsis: The Beetle and his two new friends search for an ancient healing herb in a mysterious land at the bottom of the sea.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Comics Hall of Fame: Patsy Ruth Cook, Gallatin, TN and Harry Duncan, Norfolk, VA.

[untitled]

Cartoon on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Walt Egan (byline) (credited)

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, informational

Feature(s): Here'n There

First Line: Listen, boys...for a buck extra...

Synopsis: Four spot gag cartoons.

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: childrens, humorous

Feature(s): Sonny Boy

Character(s): Sonny Boy; his mother; a truant officer

First Line: Boy! I gotta get up and ....

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Pages: 1

The Threat From Saturn (Ch. 4): Revolt of the Zombies

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Saturnia; Gloat; Joan Mason; Lefty; Officer Mike Mannigan; Mister Smithley

First Line: Never before had Blue Beetle...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

The Hurricane

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Al Pierce (credited)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: crime

Character(s): Red Monahan; Al Spinelli; Detective Malcolm

First Line: Murder was in the air.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

The Blue Madonna

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, mystery

Character(s): Joan Mason; Officer Mike Mannigan; Officer Dennis; Bacardo (crook)

First Line: When editor McPherson assigned Joan Mason...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The Golf Game

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Character(s): Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine

First Line: The Brooklyn subways aren't the only places...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 6

The Mystery of the Tolling Bell

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Officer Mike Mannigan; Prof DeBunker

First Line: It all started with a little note of complaint...

Reprinting

In Content Item: Flag

The Blue Beetle #19 published April 1955
as Mystery of the Tolling Bell / Bell Which Refused to Stop Ringing [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 10

Notes: Signed M.G. in the last panel.

Keith Chandler ; The art IS by another hand, but not Stoner, except for the face of The Blue Beetle. However, Gutwirth has no known credits at Fox, and the art looks different to his work for Fiction House during the same period.

Chinatown Incident

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, mystery

Character(s): Jim Casey; Soo Finn

First Line: In the late nineties...

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: "Tom Canby" appears to be a Fox house name.