| Additional Information |
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| Publication | October 1944 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| Notes | Distributed by Fawcett |
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| Cover | The Man Who Painted Death |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle |
| Notes | Distributed by Fawcett |
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| Comic Story | Sabotage on the Scrap Pile (10 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Oak; Officer Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Alvin Kanigher' Esta Kanigher; David Kanigher |
| Notes | Beetle has a Beetlemobile and an "electronic ear". Plus he has super powers. Contest winners get to appear in a Blue Beetle story.
Kids who appear in the story are Alvin, Esta, and David Kanigher. Writer Robert Kanigher may have used his own children as 'contest winners' in this story. |
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| Synopsis | Entry form for contest in which readers can submit their information and a photo for a chance to be included as characters in a Blue Beetle story. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Luke Chandler |
| Notes | Al Zere is aka W. Jourdain. |
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| Comic Story | The Threat from Saturn - Chapter 2: The Blinding Ray (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Criminals banished from the planet Saturn attempt to take over the Earth. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Saturnia; The Gloat; Joan Mason; Officer Mike Mannigan |
| Notes | Beetle has super powers. Continued.
Signed on the third panel of the third page. |
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| Text Story | Postage Due (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Harry Kobler; Hillard; Barat |
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| Comic Story | The Beauty Parlor Murders (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Joan discovers a bag of cocaine in her purse. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Joan Mason; McPherson (editor); Officer Dan Garret; Officer Mike Mannigan |
| Notes | Dan Garret does not change into the Blue Beetle during this story. |
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| Comic Story | The Land of "Yups" "Nopes" and "Maybes" (6 pages) |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Waterman O'Brine; Wetmore O'Brine |
| Notes | art is not Jack Farr |
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| Comic Story | The Artist who Painted Death! (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Prophetic Painter paints your future. |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; Joan Mason; Officer Mike Mannigan; The Prophetic Painter; Bill Dane; Jack Dane; Sally Dane |
| Notes | The Beetle has super powers. |
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| Synopsis | A commuter on a homeward-bound bus tosses his newspaper out the window and is reminded by a fellow passenger that paper is a vital commodity for the war effort. |
| Notes | Public service announcement urging readers to save waste paper for the war effort. |
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