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| Publication | April 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Cover logo says "New Blue Beetle" but indicia is still just "The Blue Beetle" |
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| Featuring | Flying Tiger Squadron |
| Notes | Cover logo says "New Blue Beetle" but indicia is still just "The Blue Beetle" |
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| Publisher advertisement | Follow The Adventures of the Blue Beetle |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation ,etc |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Statement of Ownership: Holyoke Publishing Company 1 Appleton ST Holyoke, Mass.
Editor: Charles Quinlan 52 Vanderbilt Ave, NY, NY
Business Manager: Sherman H. Bowles 32 Cypress St, Springfield, Mass
No owners named. Signed Sherman H. Bowles, Treasurer |
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| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
| Notes | Contents Page |
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| Comic Story | Aero Plant Sabotage (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | When the Big Town aero plant is blown up, Dan stumbles upon a quartet of Japanese laundrymen who are actually saboteurs. They try to drown him in a laundry bag. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett); Mike Mannigan; Yama; Nogi; Mitushi |
| Notes | Beetle's secret id misspelled "Garrett" in this story. Beetle's location is named "Big Town". Formerly credited to Charles Sultan, who probably never worked for Holyoke. |
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| Comic Story | Wanted Vern (Machine Gun) Miller (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | Miller is a gun for hire. He's hired by Lanchetti to rub out Detective O'Malley. Then they want him to free notorious criminal Frank Nash from FBI custody. Things go badly and Nash is killed, so the criminals put out a hit on Miller. |
| Featuring | Crime Reporter |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Crime | Characters: Verne Miller; Detective O'Malley; Lanchetti; Frank Nash; Pretty Boy Floyd; Bugs |
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| Comic Story | Scoop Resigns (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | McLuke goes undercover in Europe for the real scoop on the war. |
| Featuring | Scoop McLuke |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Spy; War | Characters: Scoop McLuke |
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| Comic Story | Sinbad the Sailor (9 pages) |
| Synopsis | Sinbad is shipwrecked on a lonely island where he finds a Roc's egg, and two evil genies. |
| Featuring | Tales from the Arabian Nights |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy | Characters: Sinbad the Sailor |
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| Comic Story | Introducing the Tiger Squadron (12 pages) |
| Synopsis | Stuck up Capt Hampshire tries to whip the rowdy Tiger Squadron into "military shape". |
| Featuring | Tiger Squadron |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Tiger; Chicago; Harvard; Confusion; Capt Ronald Hampshire; Red |
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| Text Story | Hero (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | Submarine Sabotage (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The U.S. Military asks for The Beetle's help to investigate sabotage at a submarine base. Dr. Hutchinson uses his own daughter as unsuspecting bait to help capture the Beetle. But even after her father is killed, Joan bears no grudges towards the Beetle. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle; Anna (villain); Smith; Doctor Hutchinson (villain, dies); Joyce Hutchinson |
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| Comic Story | The Monkey Fencer (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Duke de Montray is the greatest fencer the country of France ever knew. He takes on the Duke de Gromais for the honor of one of the Queen's Ladies In Waiting. |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Duke De Montray (The Monkey Fencer); Duke de Gromais; Rosalind de la Varr; Louis XIV |
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