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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published April 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

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

10 page Blue Beetle story "Hook Tigo, Super-Criminal"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Hook Tigo (first appearance; villain; death); Dwarf (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Charles Nicholas
Inks Charles Nicholas

8 page Rex Dexter story "The Curse of the Stratobird"

Characters Rex Dexter
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer
Notes story based on Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner

8 page Green Mask story "The Dilemma of Dr. Doe"

Characters Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Baldy Fluger (first appearance; villain); Dr. Doe (first appearance); Lucy Doe (first appearance)
Pencils Walter Frehm
Inks Walter Frehm

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Three Outcasts"

Characters Lt. Drake; The Three Outcasts [Boris (first appearance; villain; death); two others (first appearance; villains; death)]; Miss X
Pencils Klaus Nordling?
Inks Klaus Nordling?

6 page Chen Chang story "The Rifle Plans Robbery"

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

2 page text story "Silent Sabotage"

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

8 page Lynx story "The Rook Strikes"

Characters Lynx [Jim]; The Rook (first appearance; villain); Baldy (first appearance; villain); Sonia (first appearance; villain)
Pencils ? (Norton Kingsley)

6 page Zanzibar story "The Wreck of the Coastal Limited"

Characters John Geer (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Pierce Rice?

8 page D-13 story "Double For a Spy"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Nick Colucci (first appearance; villain); Count Von Backenger (first appearance; villain; death)
Script Bert Whitman?
Pencils Bert Whitman?
Inks Bert Whitman?