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| Publication | June 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Monthly |
| 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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| Cover | Blue Beetle Clips the Nips |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Japanese soldiers; American soldiers |
| 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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| Comic Story | The Adventure of the Crumbling Skyscraper (10 pages) |
| 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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Admiral Mason (Joan's father) |
| 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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| Featuring | Military Humor |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| 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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| Featuring | Minute Mystery |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery |
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| Comic Story | Peril In the Pacific (10 pages) |
| 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. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Colonel Denton; Lt. Adams; Lt. Morrow; Gestapo agents (villains); the Japanese (villains) |
| Notes | Keith Chandler : Once again, this appears more to be the art of E.C. Stoner. |
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| Text Story | They Came to Destroy America (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Children; War | Characters: Jerry; Hans |
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| Comic Story | The Whistling Death (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joan solves the mystery of a broadway booking agent's murder. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joan Mason |
| Notes | Joan Mason is a continuing character in the Blue Beetle strip, and this is her first outing solo. |
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| Comic Story | The Very Salty Tale of the O'Brine Twins (6 pages) |
| 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! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine; Cap'n McArsenic; Prince Annokanoanock the Fourteenth |
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| Comic Story | Buried Alive (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Marsh; Hau Pirl (Japanese spy); Dum Jon (Japanese spy) |
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| Comic Story | Coxwell and Glaisher (1 page) |
| 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. |
| Featuring | True Story |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Coxwell; Glaisher |
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