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Issue Details

Issue #14
Published September 1940
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

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

8 page Blue Beetle story "Skull, the Saboteur"

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

7 page Rex Dexter story "The Moonlight Murder Mystery"

Characters Rex Dexter; The Moonmen (first appearance; villain)
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer

3 page Wing Turner story "The Joe Pennelli Case: Part 2"

Characters Joe Pennelli (villain); Manton (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Dennis Neville? (Floyd Kelly)
Inks Dennis Neville?

9 page Green Mask story "Featuring Domino, the Miracle Boy"

Characters Green Mask [Michael Shelby] (more origin details; in caption); Domino [Don] (first appearance); Capt. Domai (first appearance; villain; death); Kuma Hiroto (first appearance; villain; death)
Pencils Walter Frehm
Inks Walter Frehm

2 page Billy Bounce story "Bong! ...It's now exactly 12 o'clock noon!"

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

6 page Chen Chang story "Spider Torture"

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

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Airplane Parts Smugglers"

Characters Lt. Drake
Pencils Klaus Nordling?
Inks Klaus Nordling?

2 page text story "The Crusaders At War"

Script Nathaniel Nitkin [as N. N. Nathaniel]
Letters typeset

5 page Lynx story "Prisoner of Droom Mansion"

Characters Lynx [Jim] (origin details in caption); Dr. Glome (first appearance; villain); Janice (first appearance; villain)
Pencils ? (Norton Kingsley)

8 page D-13 story "The Mysterious Junk"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Capt. Brusiloff (first appearance; villain)
Script Bob Powell
Pencils Bob Powell
Inks Bob Powell

3 page Captain Savage story "The Pirates and the Pearl"

Characters Captain Savage; Summa (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Charles A. Winter?
Inks Charles A. Winter?

4 page Zanzibar story "The Mark of the Cobra"

Characters James E. Drew (first appearance; death)
Pencils Pierce Rice?