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COVER DETAILS
Characters:
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
STORY DETAILS
Title:
An Epidemic of Truth
Characters:
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Sally Kirby; Dr. Marks; Mr. Kirby
Synopsis:
A scientist sprays truth gas over the city, inciting a mob.
Pages:
10.000
Pencils:
Alex Blum ?
Inks:
Alex Blum ?
Notes:
Garret is misspelled in this story.
Title:
Death in the Sky!
Synopsis:
A Nazi sabotages a new plane, killing the test pilot. But when the F.B.I closes in on him, he tries to escape in a plane he'd sabotaged and dies himself.
Pages:
6.000
Pencils:
George Tukel ?
Inks:
George Tukel ?
Notes:
In the last panels the F.B.I. agent addresses the reader, saying that this story "proves that the axis can never win", followed by a panel urging readers to buy war stamps and bonds.
Page count corrected by Warren Mueller via the GCD Error Tracker.
Characters:
Little Willie; Mrs. Van Snoot; Polly (a parrot)
Synopsis:
Willie looks after a parrot but his friends teach the parrot some new vocabulary.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Pencils:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Inks:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Notes:
In the first panel, a box notes "'Little Willie' is an exclusive feature of Blue Beetle Comics. What do you think of him?"
Characters:
Rod Ripley; Zarita; Sir Balcom; Ahmed (a guide); Rameses (mummy); Isis (goddess)
Synopsis:
Rod Ripley and his companion Zarita must find the cure for a mysterious disease in the tomb of Rameses in the "Great Pyramid of Ghazi". They join British scientist Sir Malcom in Cairo. Ahmed, their guide, is killed by a falling stone as they try to enter the pyramid. As they take the formula from Rameses's sarcophagus, Rameses awakens and curses them. Then Isis appears, and tells them they may take the formula but only if they leave and never return. The three are happy to comply, and Ripley seals the pyramid behind them.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
S. M. Iger? [as Jerry Maxwell]
Pencils:
Sam Cooper ?
Inks:
Sam Cooper ?
Notes:
art credits from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Characters:
Turkey Joe; U.S. Army
Synopsis:
Joe is a well-dressed turkey with no where to go on the farm, until he gets an invitation to dinner from the Army. But Joe fails to realize that he's being invited not to *be* dinner on Thanksgiving.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Sid Lazarus [as Lazarus] (signed)
Pencils:
Sid Lazarus [as Lazarus] (signed)
Inks:
Sid Lazarus [as Lazarus] (signed)
Notes:
Only appearance. credits from Jerry Bails' Who's Who.
Characters:
Rookie Rod
Synopsis:
Rod tries to learn the "manly art of self-defense", but chooses a first opponent who is too skilled.
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Pencils:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Inks:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Title:
Young Norwegian Hero Fools Gestapo
Characters:
Knut Fredriksen; Lieutenant Colonel Ole Reistad; First Lieutenant James Perry Muri
Synopsis:
Article describing the roles of Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans in the war.
Pages:
2.000
Letters:
typeset
Title:
Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Helicopter
Characters:
Igor Sikorsky
Synopsis:
Biography of Sikorsky's attempts and eventual success at building a helicopter.
Pages:
9.000
Notes:
It is predicted that the helicopter will "soon be everyman's airplane", and that it will replace the automobile. One early helicopter is described as looking more like a "Rube Goldberg invention"
Title:
The Case of the Fish Scale Man
Characters:
Durrand Draw (intro); Beth (intro)
Synopsis:
Durrand Draw is called to solve a case where a girl has been abducted by a man with fish scales on his skin. But the fish scale man's role is not what it first appears.
Pages:
5.000
Script:
Montgomery Mulford
Pencils:
George Tukel ?
Inks:
George Tukel ?
Pages:
1.000
Script:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Pencils:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Inks:
Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed)
Notes:
Five one-panel gags.
Characters:
Tamaa; Augo (Tamaa's lion)
Synopsis:
Tamaa must free Augo from a tribe after he is captured as part of a ritual to choose the next chief, and then help the better candidate win.
Pages:
5.000
Pencils:
Bob Kipler (signed)
Inks:
Bob Kipler (signed)
Title:
Double Trouble [Part 1]
Characters:
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Spunky; Dick Wilson (F.B.I. agent); Fritz Von Straff (the Nazi Blue Beetle); Himmler; Gretchen
Synopsis:
The military sends a captured Gestapo agent back into Germany to impersonate the Blue Beetle and help free some captured soldiers. Unfortunately the Nazi goes back on his word, so the real Blue Beetle has to follow him and free his friends. Continued....
Pages:
10.000
Pencils:
Lee Ames ?
Inks:
Lee Ames ?
Notes:
Blue Beetle's sidekick Spunky was called Sparky in earlier issues. Spunky does not wear a costume in this story. "Garrett" has two t's in this story.
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CGC Census Report*
Grade
NG
PG
CVR
0.5
1.0
1.5
1.8
2.0
2.5
3.0
3.5
4.0
4.5
5.0
5.5
6.0
6.5
7.0
7.5
8.0
8.5
9.0
9.2
9.4
9.6
9.8
9.9
10.0
Total
Universal
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
2
0
1
2
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
11
Qualified
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Signature Series
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
CGCxJSA
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Restored
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
Total
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
3
0
1
2
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
13
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