| Additional Information |
| |
| Publication | June 1943 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: monthly |
| |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Pencils: Sol Brodsky?; Sid Lazarus |
| Content | Genre: Fantasy; Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Ali Baba |
| |
| Contents | Contents (1 page) |
| Notes | Contents page |
| |
| Comic Story | The Case of the Transformation (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dan quits the police force and joins up with the U.S. Intelligence Dept. Dan and his new friend Bill Dailey are assigned to sneak into Germany. Dan then proceeds to Berchtesgaden and meets Hitler where he discovers that der Fuehrer is really the Devil in disguise. There the Beetle escapes a firing squad and manages to pull Hitler's moustache. |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Script: Sylvan Stein (signed) | Pencils: Charles Quinlan Sr. [as Charles Quinlan] (signed) | Inks: Charles Quinlan Sr. [as Charles Quinlan] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Mike Mannigan; Bill Dailey; Adolf Hitler (villain); The Devil (villain) |
| |
| Comic Story | Bagdad 900 Miles (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Having defeated the 40 theives and stolen the treasure, Ali discovers that life at home is not pleasant. He goes off to find more treasure to help pay the income tax. Ali is soon shipwrecked on an island inhabited by a very hungry giant. |
| Featuring | Ali Baba |
| Credits | Script: Ray Willner | Pencils: Ray Willner | Inks: Al Ulmer? |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Fantasy | Characters: Ali-Baba; Mrs. Baba; Muhrad; Harun el-Rashid; King of Sarandib |
| |
| Text Story | Adventures with Live Lions in New York City (2 pages) |
| Credits | Letters: Typeset |
| |
| Comic Story | Beware -- This Woman Is Death (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | When Kay hooks up with Mike Dolan's gang, her former boyfriend "Ears" is certain she's giving him his future hit list. |
| Featuring | Crime Reporter |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Ulmer? |
| Content | Genre: Crime | Characters: Mike Dolan; Kay; Ears McGuire |
| Notes | The script claims Kay is a redhead, yet she doesn't have the same hair color in any two panels. |
| |
| Featuring | Picture Quiz |
| |
| Featuring | Puzzle Page |
| |
| Comic Story | The Boy Patriots Chapter 2 (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Downed american pilot Bill Anderson needs Wing Lee's help to rescue his father from a Japanese POW camp. |
| Featuring | Wing Lee |
| Credits | Pencils: Jack Alderman | Inks: Jack Alderman |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Wing Lee; Chin Lau; Bill Anderson; Ruby Foo; Song Kau |
| |
| Comic Story | Young Guerilla Girl Fighter (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vera tells the first person story about how a young teenager becomes a guerilla fighter against the Nazis in the Soviet Union. Her life is saved by supplies dropped by American war relief. |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Ulmer? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Vera Nikitina |
| |
| Comic Story | Parachute Nurse (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Young nurses parachute into Russian villages to tend the wounded. |
| Credits | Pencils: Allen Ulmer? | Inks: Allen Ulmer? |
| Content | Genre: War | Characters: Tanya Gertseva |
| Notes | Page count supplied by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker. |
| |
| Comic Story | A Holiday with Death (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Bug-Eye Bailey is released on parole, which cause Mike much consternation, because Bailey has sworn to kill Dan. So he has Joan start a crusade in the paper to put Bailey back in jail. This gets Mike and Joan in hot water, so they're lucky Dan shows up as the Beetle on the last page to put things to rights. |
| Featuring | Blue Beetle |
| Credits | Script: Charles Quinlan (signed) | Pencils: Charles Quinlan (signed) | Inks: Charles Quinlan |
| Content | Genre: Superhero | Characters: Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett; Dan Garret]; Mike Mannigan; Bug Eye Bailey; Joan Mason |
| Notes | Joan Mason works for the Centre City Clarion. Garret/Garrett is spelled both ways. |
| |
| Featuring | Little Willie |
| Credits | Script: Mel Lazarus (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus | Inks: Mel Lazarus | Letters: Mel Lazarus |
| Content | Genre: Children; Humor | Characters: Little Willie; Mom |
| |
| Comic Story | Lieutenant Edward Henry O'Hare (1 page) |
| Credits | Pencils: Phil Bard? | Inks: Phil Bard? |
| Content | Genre: Biography; War | Characters: Edaward Henry O'Hare |
| Notes | Re-uses the splash panel and blurb and an additional panel from the 6-page story of the same name in Blue Beetle #15. Art credits from GCD index of that story. (Note added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.) |
| |
| Synopsis | Dipsy approaches Uncle Sam with a quarter and asks if Sam could use it, and Sam wants to know where he got it. When Dipsy tells him that he got it delivering groceries, then Sam agrees to let Dipsy buy a war stamp with it. |
| Featuring | Dipsy Doodle |
| Credits | Pencils: Sol Brodsky [as Sol] (signed) | Inks: Sol Brodsky [as Sol] (signed) |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Dipsy Doodle; Uncle Sam |
| Notes | Art credits by Richard Arndt in Alter Ego #134 (July, 2015). |
| |
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under a
Creative Commons Attribution License.
More details about this comic may be available in their page here |
