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| Great stories, and the art work is wonderful. |
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| Publication | January 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup] [aka Sparky]; The Red Knight |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Publisher advertisement | Don't Miss the January Issue of Catman (1 page) |
| Featuring | Catman |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside front cover. Indicia at the bottom of the page.
Promotional advertisement for what would be Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1942 Series) #v3#7 (17) (January 1943). |
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| Comic Story | The Case of the Red Knight! (15 pages) |
| Synopsis | Count Renaud enters the offices of two jewelers, announcing he has the fabulous Beaufort Emerald. Joan is on hand, wanting the story for her newspaper, and is invited to dinner at Mr. Bentley's that evening to get the story. Officer Dan Garret, knowing that the emerald carries with it a history of death for its owners, decides to be around....just in case, and learns that, during the time of the Crusades, the Red Knight, possessing the emerald, stops to rest for the evening and is killed for the gem by Count Beaufort. When the Knight and curse on the gem seems to return, the Beetle steps in. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup]; Joan Mason (reporter); Bentley (jeweler, death); Carl Lewis (jeweler, death); Count de Beaufort (villain, death, flashback); The Red Knight (flashback, death); The Red Knight [Count Henry Renaud] (villain) |
| Notes | A new version of the Red Knight is introduced in Blue Beetle (Charlton, 1964 series) #5.
Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Photo Story | Read the Catman and the Kitten (1 page) |
| Featuring | Catman |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Catman; Kitten |
| Notes | Promotional advertisement for Cat-Man Comics (Holyoke, 1942 Series) #v3#7 (17) (January 1943) including cover reproduction. |
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| Comic Story | The Blue Beetle Starring Spunky.. in The Case of the Magic Lamp (15 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup] |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Featuring | Papoose |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Papoose (introduction, only appearance); Big Moose (father of Papoose) |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Comic Story | A Mission of Death! (10 pages) |
| Featuring | V-Man |
| Content | Genre: Superhero |
| Notes | Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020). |
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| Text Story | Six-Gun Law (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Western-frontier |
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| Featuring | Likkity Split |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Children; War |
| Notes | Last appearance. |
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| Comic Story | The Sight-Seeing Bus Mystery!! (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Spunky [Sparkington J. Northrup] |
| Notes | Listed as: "Art and Editorial by Cromwell Bates and Dudley Rutherford." on the splash page.
Art identification from Jim Vadeboncoeur Jr. via the Digital Comic Museum (https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=17278&page=69, retrieved 23 April 2020).
On the third panel of the eighth page, the dialogue box states, "Once more Wes and Sandy return to the sight seeing bus." This reference indicates that this was most probably a re-worked story originally intended to be a Sandman and Sandy story. It is likely the story was originally rejected by DC and redone for Holyoke's Blue Beetle. |
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| Featuring | Spark Stevens |
| Content | Genre: Military | Characters: Spark Stevens; Chuck; Myra Lee |
| Notes | navy |
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| Advertisement | Free with this Offer (1 page) |
| Featuring | Holyoke Publishing Co. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for the book series Wonders of Science, Simplified from Holyoke Publishing Co. of New York. |
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| Advertisement | Jim Prentice Famous Inventor of Electronic Football, Baseball, Etc., Announces (1 page) |
| Featuring | Electric Game Co., Inc. |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Pencils:? (illustrations) | Inks:? (illustrations) | Letters:?; typeset |
| Notes | Back cover.
Advertisement for the Jim Prentice electronic game, Bomb'em with Blast'em from Electric Game Co., Inc. of Holyoke, Massachusetts. |
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