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Issue Details

Issue #7
Published February 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Pencils Charles Nicholas?
Inks Charles Nicholas?

8 page Blue Beetle story "The Blue Beetle Impostors"

Characters The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Groone (first appearance; villain); Tony (first appearance; villain); two other Blue Beetle impostors (first appearance; villains)
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

3 page Wing Turner story An Episode With "The Devil"

Characters The Devil [Baldy Barry] (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils George Tuska (Floyd Kelly)
Inks George Tuska

8 page Rex Dexter story "The Fiend Called Franto"

Characters Rex Dexter; Franto (first appearance; villain; death)
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer

8 page Green Mask story "The Crime Syndicate"

Characters The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Rod Riley (first appearance; villain); Shive Parker (first appearance; villain); Goldie Gates (first appearance; villain); Frankie Ciconi (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Walter Frame
Inks Walter Frame

2 page Billy Bounce story "Wanted!!--But Not Immediately!"

Characters Billy Bounce
Script Fred Schwab
Pencils Fred Schwab
Inks Fred Schwab
Letters Fred Schwab

6 page Chen Chang story "Buzzards Scream As Death Carves a Feast"

Characters Chen Chang
Pencils Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson]
Inks Munson Paddock

2 page text story "Swallowed By the Earth"

Script Toni Adams (Toni Blum?)
Letters typeset

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Fish Pirates"

Characters Lt. Drake
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

4 page Denny Scott story "Prisoner of Maharajah Rampur"

Characters Denny Scott; Rampur (first appearance; villain)
Pencils John Lindermayer
Inks John Lindermayer

3 page Hemlock Shomes story "The Train-Ticket Theft"

Characters Hemlock Shomes
Genre humor; detective
Script Fred Schwab
Pencils Fred Schwab
Inks Fred Schwab
Letters Fred Schwab

8 page D-13 story "The Moravian Master Spy"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Kardly Gorin (first appearance; villain; death)
Script Bob Powell
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

3 page Captain Savage story "The Bad Luck Diamond"

Characters Captain Savage; Sin Lee (villain); Blondie Flo (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Art Peddy?
Inks Art Peddy?

4 page Zanzibar story "Melosh the Soothsayer"

Characters Melosh (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils George Tuska
Inks George Tuska