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| Excellent clean copy of this. Yet another oddly-specific "superhero" -- Dynamite Thor "can propel himself through the air with dynamite." This "power" seems like it would only be useful in certain specific situations. |
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| Publication | March-April 1941 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: Bimonthly |
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| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret] |
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| Comic Story | The Crime Coils of the Eel (15 pages) |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; The Eel (villain, introduction, death); Brute (villain, introduction, death); another crook (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | vaguely Kirbyesque layouts |
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| Comic Story | The Book Murders (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]; The Wart (villain, introduction, death); Ivor Nick (villain, introduction, death) |
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| Comic Story | The Doctored Dive Bomber (6 pages) |
| Featuring | Wing Turner |
| Credits | Pencils: Dennis Neville? | Inks: Dennis Neville? |
| Content | Characters: Prussland agents (villains, introduction) |
| Notes | last app. in BIG THREE #2 |
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| Comic Story | The Vengeance of Vango (10 pages) |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Charles Nicholas | Inks: Charles Nicholas |
| Content | Characters: Vango (villain, introduction, death?) |
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| Text Story | Strange Companions (1.75 pages) |
| Credits | Pencils:? (illustration) | Inks:? (illustration) | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Animal |
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| Statement of Ownership | Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc. |
| Credits | Script: S. Sidney Robbins (business manager) | Letters: typeset |
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| Comic Story | The Atom Ray Saboteurs (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | The threat to U.S. wartime munitions plants draws the attention of Dynamite Thor who then comes face to face with the Blue Diamond Gang |
| Featuring | Dynamite Thor |
| Credits | Pencils: Roland Patenaude | Inks: Roland Patenaude |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Dynamite Thor [aka The Explosion Man] [Peter Thor]; Glenda (Thor's fiance); Mr. Quinn (aircraft company head, death); The Blue Diamond Gang [Groot; Gordon; Nick; others unnamed] (villains, introduction for all, all die) |
| Notes | Last appearance in Weird Comics #6.
The Men of Mystery reprint lists Roland Patenaude as the artist. |
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| Comic Story | The Harpie of Horror (8 pages) |
| Featuring | Sub Saunders |
| Credits | Pencils: Henry Kiefer (Karl Kief) | Inks: Henry Kiefer |
| Content | Characters: Lugo (villain, introduction, death) |
| Notes | app. between FANTASTIC COMICS #16 / 17 |
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