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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published April 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Pencils Lou Fine
Inks Lou Fine

8 page Blue Beetle story "The Blue Beetle--Kidnapper?"

Characters The Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Jack Bendon (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

5 page Wing Turner story "Girl Flyer Missing"

Characters Joan Farrel (first appearance)
Pencils ? (Floyd Kelly)

8 page Rex Dexter story "The Planet That Feared Earth"

Characters Rex Dexter; Ecaepians (first appearance); Leonardo Da Vinci; Napoleon; Alexander the Great
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer

8 page Green Mask story "Steel Mill Explosion"

Characters The Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Von Shlameal (first appearance; villain); Josef (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Walter Frame
Inks Walter Frame

2 page Billy Bounce story "Gee--nobody knows the hours I suffer..."

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

6 page Chen Chang story "River Lily and the Feted Guests"

Characters Chen Chang (villain); River Lily (villain)
Pencils Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson]
Inks Munson Paddock

4 page Lt. Drake story "The Milk Bottle Bombs"

Characters Lt. Drake
Pencils Klaus Nordling
Inks Klaus Nordling

2 page text story "The Secret of Wan"

Letters typeset

8 page D-13 story "The Disintegrator"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Hito Dishuki (first appearance; villain)
Script Bob Powell?
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

6 page Zanzibar story "The Phantom of Cadel"

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

7 page Moth story "Enter: The Moth"

Characters The Moth (first appearance)
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney