Issue: #22
Published: June 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Charles Quinlan
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Published monthly by Holyoke Publishing Co, Inc. 1 Appleton St, Holyoke Mass. Editorial and Executive Offices 52 Vanderbilt Ave. New York City.
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| Table Of Contents (1 page) |
Contents |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Case of the Transformation |
| Featuring: |
Blue Beetle |
| 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. |
| Credits: |
Script: Sylvan Stein (signed) | Pencils: Charles Quinlan Sr. [as Charles Quinlan] (signed) | Inks: Charles Quinlan Sr. [as Charles Quinlan] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] Mike Mannigan Bill Dailey Adolf Hitler (villain) The Devil (villain) |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
Bagdad 900 Miles |
| Featuring: |
Ali Baba |
| 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. |
| Credits: |
Script: Ray Willner | Pencils: Ray Willner | Inks: Al Ulmer ? |
| Genre: |
Humor Fantasy |
| Characters: |
Ali-Baba Mrs. Baba Muhrad Harun El-Rashid King Of Sarandib |
| Text Story (2 pages) |
Adventure with the Lions in New York City |
| Credits: |
Letters: Typeset |
| Comic Story (7 pages) |
Beware -- This Woman Is Death |
| Featuring: |
Crime Reporter |
| Synopsis: |
When Kay hooks up with Mike Dolan's gang, her former boyfriend "Ears" is certain she's giving him his future hit list. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Allen Ulmer ? |
| Genre: |
Crime |
| Characters: |
Mike Dolan Kay Ears McGuire |
| Activity (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Picture Quiz |
| Activity (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Puzzle Page |
| Comic Story (10 pages) |
The Boy Patriots Chapter 2 |
| Featuring: |
Wing Lee |
| Synopsis: |
Downed american pilot Bill Anderson needs Wing Lee's help to rescue his father from a Japanese POW camp. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Jack Alderman | Inks: Jack Alderman |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Wing Lee Chin Lau Bill Anderson Ruby Foo Song Kau |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Young Guerilla Girl Fighter |
| 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 ? |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Vera Nikitina |
| Comic Story (4 pages) |
Parachute Nurse |
| Synopsis: |
Young nurses parachute into Russian villages to tend the wounded. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Allen Ulmer ? | Inks: Allen Ulmer ? |
| Genre: |
War |
| Characters: |
Tanya Gertseva |
| Comic Story (8 pages) |
A Holiday with Death |
| Featuring: |
Blue Beetle |
| 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. |
| Credits: |
Script: Charles Quinlan (signed) | Pencils: Charles Quinlan (signed) | Inks: Charles Quinlan |
| Genre: |
Superhero |
| Characters: |
Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett Dan Garret] Mike Mannigan Bug Eye Bailey Joan Mason |
| Comic Story (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Little Willie |
| Credits: |
Script: Mel Lazarus (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus | Inks: Mel Lazarus | Letters: Mel Lazarus |
| Genre: |
Children Humor |
| Characters: |
Little Willie Mom |
| Public Service Announcement (1 page) |
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| Featuring: |
Dipsy Doodle |
| 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. |
| Credits: |
Pencils: Sol Brodsky [as Sol] (signed) | Inks: Sol Brodsky [as Sol] (signed) |
| Genre: |
Humor |
| Characters: |
Dipsy Doodle Uncle Sam |
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