Issue Details

Issue	#15
Published	October 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 "The Murders of Gimp and Moody"

Characters	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Joan Mason (first appearance); Gimp (first appearance; villain); Moody (first appearance; villain)
Pencils	Charles Nicholas
Inks	Charles Nicholas
Notes	Blue Beetle wears yellow gloves, uses a gun on splash page.

3 page Wing Turner story "The Jewel Robbery"

Pencils	Dennis Neville?
Inks	Dennis Neville?
Notes	next app. in THE FLAME #2

8 page Rex Dexter story "Peril From a Miniature Planet"

Characters	Earth (origin; theoretical); Rex Dexter (origin details; flashback); Dr Ramm (first appearance)
Script	Dick Briefer
Pencils	Dick Briefer
Inks	Dick Briefer

8 page Green Mask story "The Mummy's Curse"

Characters	Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Zinnotti (first appearance; villain); Prof. Stone (first appearance; villain)
Pencils	Walter Frehm
Inks	Walter Frehm

2 page Billy Bounce story "Oboy! I'm famous!"

Characters	Billy Bounce (last appearance)
Script	Fred Schwab
Pencils	Fred Schwab
Inks	Fred Schwab
Letters	Fred Schwab

2 page text story "The Crojax Murders"

Script	Paul Ludwig
Letters	typeset

6 page Chen Chang story "The Murder of Sir James Boyce"

Characters	Chen Chang (villain); Alice Mason (first appearance)
Pencils	Munson Paddock [as Cecilia Munson]
Inks	Munson Paddock

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Strike of the Sinister Skull"

Characters	Lt. Drake; The Skull (first appearance; villain; not the same villain as in Blue Beetle story in last issue)
Pencils	Klaus Nordling?
Inks	Klaus Nordling?

8 page D-13 story "The Siberian Sub Base"

Characters	D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Numiak (first appearance); Russians (villains)
Script	Bob Powell
Pencils	Bob Powell
Inks	Bob Powell

4 page Zanzibar story "Ghost Murder At Stock Manor"

Characters	The Phantom Abbot [Stock] (first appearance; villain)
Pencils	Pierce Rice?

5 page Lynx story "The Murder of Jonathan Graham"

Characters	Lynx [Jim]; James Hilton (first appearance; villain)
Pencils	? (Godfrey Clarke)

3 page Captain Savage story "The Bride of Baal"

Characters	Captain Savage
Pencils	Charles A. Winter?
Inks	Charles A. Winter?