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| Date | | Number: 9 | Lang: English (en) | |||
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| Name | Blue Beetle 9 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 68 | Frequency: bi-monthly |
| Notes | The on-sale date is from the publication date recorded in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1941, New Series, Vol. 36, No. 4. |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Roland Patenaude ? |
| Inks | Roland Patenaude ? |
| Comic Story | The Bank of Counterfeit Bills / Blue Beetle (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | The Crofte Trust Bank is passing counterfeit $1 bills. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Lora Crofte; Jorth (villain); Slink Bard (villain) |
| Pencils | Al Carreño ? |
| Inks | Al Carreño ? |
| First Line | Tearing wildly through a light at a busy intersection, a taxi careens recklessly into cross traffic and crashes head-on into a sleek limousine! |
| Comic Story | The Crimes of the Falcon / Blue Beetle (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | A gang of zombies tries to rob a jewelry store. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Luella; Mr. Finger; The Falcon (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Al Carreño ? |
| Inks | Al Carreño ? |
| First Line | The Falcon! |
| Comic Story | The Carnival Doll Killing / Blue Beetle (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Carnival pickpockets steal rich people's address cards for future use. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mike Mannigan; Joan Mason; Carvo (villain, introduction); unnamed carnival workers (villains, introduction for all) |
| Pencils | Al Carreño ? |
| Inks | Al Carreño ? |
| First Line | Midnight -- and death slips in between the bars of Phillip Dolor's sumptuous mansion as he prepares to retire... |
| Comic Story | The Deadly Sanitarium of Dr. Horthe / Blue Beetle (10 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dr. Horth uses dead bodies to dictate new wills leaving their estates to him. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Characters | Mike Mannigan (Policeman); Janet Charter; Dr. Horthe (villain, introduction) |
| Pencils | Al Carreño ? |
| Inks | Al Carreño ? |
| First Line | As his deformed assistant stands by, Dr. Horthe applies lethal paralyzing gas to the recumbent form of Charter, one of the elderly patients of his sanitarium! |
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| Synopsis | The Kooba Kid is too lazy to reel in his fishing line but one sip of Kooba with vitamin B-1 gives him the strength to tackle purse snatchers. |
| Feature | Kooba Kid |
| Characters | Kooba Kid |
| Comic Story | The Gorilla with a Human Brain (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mad scientist Brock transfers Castle's brain into a gorilla's body which then murders Brock and goes after Brock's niece, Elsa. |
| Feature | The Gorilla |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Characters | The Gorilla [Jack Castle, gorilla w/ a human brain] (introduction, origin, Dr. Brock's assistant); Ken Connors; Elsa Brock (Dr. Brock's niece); Dr. Mishkin (scientist, death); Dr. Flavius Brock (villain, brain surgeon, introduction) |
| Pencils | Harry Graves (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Graves (signed) |
| Notes | Harry Graves is not listed by Jerry Bails in the Who's Who, nor is the feature. Bill Black states that Jerry Bails' "Collector's Guide: The First Heroic Age" from 1969 and Howard Keltner's "Index to Golden Age Comics Books" from 1976 both list the feature. |
| Text Story | The Memoirs of the Colonel (2 pages) |
| Pencils | ? (illustrations) |
| Inks | ? (illustrations) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Genre | War |
| Script | Nathaniel Nitkin |
| Comic Story | The Origin of the Blackbird (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Jake Baxter builds a super plane but no one will believe him so he becomes the Blackbird. |
| Feature | Blackbird |
| Characters | The Blackbird [Jake Baxter] (intro and origin); Raftery; Von Essen (villain); Nazis; Dutch Berry |
| Comic Story | Buttercup Alley (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | Davy lives in a shack. The Grogans torment him day and night, until one day he learns he can make wishes come true. |
| Feature | Davy the Wish Master |
| Genre | Humor; Children; Fantasy |
| Characters | Davy (the Wish Master); Ma Grogan; Pa Grogan; Junior Grogan |
| Pencils | Arturo Cazeneuve ? |
| Inks | Pierce Rice ? |
| 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 | |

