Issue: #27
Published: November 1943, Price: 0.10 USD, Pages: 68, Editing: Phillip Steinberg
Color: Color Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S. Paper Stock: Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior Binding: Saddle-stitched Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Notes: Indicia:
THE BLUE BEETLE, November, 1943, No. 27. Published monthly by Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc. Office of publication, 1 Appelton Street, Holyoke, Mass. Editorial and executive offices, 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office at Holyoke, Mass., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Price 10 cents per copy. Subscription rates: 12 issues in the United States and its possessions, Mexico, South America, Spain, $1.20. The publisher accepts no responsibility for unsolicited material. Copyright 1942 by Holyoke Publishing Co., Inc. Contents must not be reproduced without permission. The names of all characters that are used are ficticious. Use of a name which is the same as that of any living person is accidental.
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Death in the Sky! |
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Crime Reporter |
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A Nazi sabotages a new plane, killing the test pilot. But when the F.B.I closes in on him, he tries to escape in a plane he'd sabotaged and dies himself. |
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War |
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Little Willie |
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Willie looks after a parrot but his friends teach the parrot some new vocabulary. |
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Script: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Inks: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) |
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Humor Children |
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Little Willie Mrs. Van Snoot Polly (a Parrot) |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Rod Ripley, Wizard of Science |
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Rod Ripley and his companion Zarita must find the cure for a mysterious disease in the tomb of Rameses in the "Great Pyramid of Ghazi". They join British scientist Sir Malcom in Cairo. Ahmed, their guide, is killed by a falling stone as they try to enter the pyramid. As they take the formula from Rameses's sarcophagus, Rameses awakens and curses them. Then Isis appears, and tells them they may take the formula but only if they leave and never return. The three are happy to comply, and Ripley seals the pyramid behind them. |
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Rod Ripley Zarita Sir Balcom Ahmed (a Guide) Rameses (mummy) Isis (goddess) |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Turkey Joe |
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Joe is a well-dressed turkey with no where to go on the farm, until he gets an invitation to dinner from the Army. But Joe fails to realize that he's being invited not to *be* dinner on Thanksgiving. |
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Humor Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
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Turkey Joe U.S. Army |
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Rookie Rod |
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Rod tries to learn the "manly art of self-defense", but chooses a first opponent who is too skilled. |
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Script: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Inks: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) |
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Humor Military |
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Rookie Rod |
Comic Story (9 pages) |
Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Helicopter |
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Biography of Sikorsky's attempts and eventual success at building a helicopter.
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Non-fiction War |
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Igor Sikorsky |
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Come to the Fun Circus |
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Script: Mel Lazarus (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus (signed) | Inks: Mel Lazarus (signed) |
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Humor |
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The Case of the Fish Scale Man |
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Durrand Draw |
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Durrand Draw is called to solve a case where a girl has been abducted by a man with fish scales on his skin. But the fish scale man's role is not what it first appears. |
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Detective-mystery |
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Durrand Draw (intro) Beth (intro) |
Cartoon (1 page) |
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Service Gags |
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Script: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Pencils: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) | Inks: Mel Lazarus [as Mel] (signed) |
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Humor War |
Comic Story (5 pages) |
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Tamaa, Jungle Prince |
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Tamaa must free Augo from a tribe after he is captured as part of a ritual to choose the next chief, and then help the better candidate win. |
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Jungle |
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Tamaa Augo (Tamaa's Lion) |
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