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Mystery Men #1 Charles Nicholas Wojtoski August 1939 Dressed like the Green Hornet |
Mystery Men #2 Charles Nicholas Wojtoski Blue Beetle in tights Sept 1939 |
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Mystery Men #3 Charles Nicholas Wojtoski October 1939 |
Blue Beetle #1 new origin by Will Eisner Winter 1939 |
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Jack Kirby 1939-40 After Kirby left, Pierce Rice took over the comic strip. |
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Blue Beetle #2 Larry Antonette Spring 1940 The Arson Ring yellow gloves! |
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Blue Beetle #2 Al Carreno Spring 1940 |
Blue Beetle 3 Mastermind of Crime Pierce Rice 41 July/August 1940 |
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Mystery Men #12 Joe Simon July 1940 |
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Mystery Men #12 Chuck Cuidera July 1940 |
Mystery Men 13 Don Rico? August 1940 |
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Blue Beetle #4 Ed Ashe Fall 1940 |
Big 3 #1 Sam Cooper Fall 1940 Borgo |
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Blue Beetle #10 Louis Cazeneuve December 1941 red gloves! |
Blue Beetle 11 Ramona Patenaude February 1942 |
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Blue Beetle 11 Louis Cazeneuve February 1942 Cargo of Doom |
Blue Beetle 11 Al Carreno February 1942 |
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| With Blue Beetle #12, Printer Sherman Bowles managed to wrest control of the property from Victor Fox, for non-payment of debts. He turned the preparation of material over to Frank Temerson's Cat-Man staff, a title he had taken over only a few months earlier. |  |
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Blue Beetle 13 Allen Ulmer August 1942 |
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Pierce Rice Blue Beetle #13 (left over from Fox) |
Sol Brodsky Blue Beetle 13 |
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Blue Beetle 13 Christopher Schaare |
Blue Beetle 14 introduced the Beetle's kid side kick Sparky, although Sparky would miss more adventures than he would participate in. (Allen Ulmer) |
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Blue Beetle 16 (Allen Ulmer?) November 1942 |
Blue Beetle 16 Charles Quinlan Quinlan was Temerson's editor/art director. |
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Phil Bard (Oliver Ashford) Blue Beetle 14 September 1942 |
Alex Blum Blue Beetle 20 April 1943 |
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Alan Mandel Blue Beetle 20 |
Lewis Golden Blue Beetle 21 May 1943 |
| Temerson won back the rights
to Cat-Man and took his former staff with him to begin producing a
new comics line. Sherman Bowles turned to a new shop and a new
editor, Philip Steinberg, to continue producing his remaining
Blue Beetle title.
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Gil Kane Blue Beetle 25 September 1943 |
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Lee Ames Blue Beetle 27 November 1943 |
George Tukel ? Blue Beetle 29 January 1944 |
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Gerald Altman cover Blue Beetle 31 June 1944 |
Herman C Browner Blue Beetle 31 June 1944 Peril in the Pacific |
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Under the over the top guidance of E. C. Stoner
(Otis), Fox's new Blue Beetle became a cosmic hero capable of
performing any super feat imaginable. A cross between Superman
and the Spectre, flying, super-speed, super vision growing to giant
size- the Beetle could do anything! No explanation for this development was ever made in the stories. Stoner guided the Beetle through a six part serial about an invasion from Saturn that collapsed in mid storyline when Fox decided to change direction again. |
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Maurice Del Bourgo 45-6 or Maurice Whitman |
EC Stoner Blue Beetle 33 August 1944 |
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Stoner? Blue Beetle 36 November 1944 |
Lou Ferstadt Blue Beetle 40 Winter 1945 |
After almost a year break between issue 44 and 45 the Beetle came back with a new direction. The super powers were gone and the Beetle became a regular crime fighter again. Fox turned creative control over to Jerry Iger and his studio. Under artists like Jack Kamen and Bob Webb the Beetle became known for "good girl art" and lurid crime stories. |
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Jack Kamen Blue Beetle 46 July 1947 |
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Blue Beetle 46 H C Kiefer |
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Robert Webb Blue Beetle 56 May 1948 |
Ken Battefeld or John Forte Blue Beetle 57 July 1948 |
| There was almost a two year gap between Blue Beetle 49 and 50, after which the lurid crime approach was abandoned in favor of a return to standard crime fighting. Mo Marcus and diverse hands handled the art for the three issue revival attempt after which Victor Fox gave up the battle and liquidated his properties. |
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Mo Marcus Blue Beetle 58 April 1950 |
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