Issue Details

Issue	#4
Published	January 1965
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Pat Masulli

Cover Details - "Praying Mantis-Man"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man; Juanita Rivera
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Dick Giordano
Inks	Dick Giordano

7 page Blue Beetle story "The Praying Mantis-Man"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Juanita Rivera; Praying Mantis-Man [Hunter Mann]; Professor Ybor
Genre	superhero
Script	Joe Gill
Pencils	Bill Fraccio
Inks	Tony Tallarico

1 page story "The Silent World"

Genre

fact; science; fantasy

4 page Blue Beetle story "The Chlorophyll Man Chapter 2"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man
Genre	Superhero
Script	Joe Gill
Pencils	Bill Fraccio
Inks	Tony Tallarico

2 page Blue Beetle letters page "The Beetle's Nest"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Genre	Superhero
Pencils	? (illustrations)
Inks	? (illustrations)
Letters	typeset
Notes	Letters of comment from readers Paul McSpadden, Henry Hegman, Dennis Knuth, Robert Vann, Dave Fitzpatrick, Randy Montgomery, Norman R. Doerner, Cynthia Diay and Jerry D. Johnson.

4 page Blue Beetle story "The Garden of Crawling Death - 3"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Juanita Rivera; Praying Mantis-Man
Genre	Superhero
Script	Joe Gill
Pencils	Bill Fraccio
Inks	Tony Tallarico

3 page story "The Outpost"

Genre	war; science fiction
Inks	Jon D'Agostino?
Notes	Original indexer had credits for Joe Sinnott and Jon D'Agostino. However, in a list of Mr. Sinnott's work, his son Mark claims he did not do any work for Charlton after 1963. This also puts the inking credit to question.

1 page Blue Beetle illustration "Blue Beetle Pin-Up"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Pat Masulli
Inks	Pat Masulli
Letters	typeset; ?

5 page Blue Beetle story "The Mantis and the Beetle - 4"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man; Juanita Rivera
Genre	Superhero
Script	Joe Gill
Pencils	Bill Fraccio
Inks	Tony Tallarico