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Issue: Blue Beetle #56 Public Domain
Publication Date: May 1948
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Issues: #56 of 40 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagFox
Brand: A Fox Feature PublicationView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Fox Feature Syndicate Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Available as a scan at goldenagecomics.co.uk.
Indicia:
BLUE BEETLE, May, 1948, No. 56. Published monthly by Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc., 221 Conyngham Ave., Wilkes-Barre, Pa., executive offices 60 East 42nd St., New York 17, N. Y. Entered as second class matter December 18, 1945 at the postoffice at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., under the act of March 3, 1879. Price 10¢ per copy. Yearly subscriptions (12 issues), in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, $1.70. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1948 by Fox Feature Syndicate, Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. The names of all characters are fictitious. Use of the name which is the same as that of any living person is accidental.
Printed in U. S. A.
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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 Proves Crime Never Pays!

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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The Sinister Sphinx!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Sphinx (villain)
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Starts on inside front cover.
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An Invitation to Danger!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Irma Hess; Goldie Gates
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Pages: 10
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Killer's Payoff

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: crime
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Pages: 2
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Killers at Large

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Genres: crime
Synopsis: Frankie makes lots of money in the junk business.
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In Content Item: FlagFamous Crimes #1 published June 1948
as Killers at Large [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Wilber Underhill "Tri-State Terror"!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? [as Otis]
Inker(s): ? [as Otis]
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Genres: crime
Feature(s): A True Crime Story
Character(s): Wilbur Underhill; Blue Beetle (narrator)
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Pages: 9
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Monk Eastman

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Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Gang Leaders
Character(s): Monk Eastman
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In Content Item: FlagMurder Incorporated #9 published March 1949
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bottom half of page is ad for an air pistol.

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