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Issue Details

Issue #22
Published May 1941
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Victor Fox

Cover Details

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Pencils Chuck Cuidera
Inks Chuck Cuidera

10 page Blue Beetle story "The Menace of Magog"

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

8 page Rex Dexter story "Attack of the Ugly Queen"

Characters Rex Dexter; The Ugly Queen (first appearance; villain); Rad (first appearance; villain); Lom (first appearance; villain); Mong (first appearance; villain)
Script Dick Briefer
Pencils Dick Briefer
Inks Dick Briefer

8 page Green Mask story "The Kidnapping of Joan Tracy"

Characters Green Mask [Michael Shelby]; Joe Donner (first appearance; villain)
Pencils Walter Frehm
Inks Walter Frehm

5 page Lt. Drake story "The Radio Bomb Spies"

Characters Lt. Drake; Folikoff (first appearance; villain); Communists (villains)
Pencils Klaus Nordling?
Inks Klaus Nordling?

6 page Chen Chang story "Escape From the Noose"

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

2 page text story "Hollywood Racket"

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

8 page Lynx story "The Return of the Rook"

Characters Lynx [Jim]; The Rook (villain)
Pencils ? (Norton Kingsley)
Notes Lynx wears a new costume with a shirt

6 page Zanzibar story "The Murder of a Gunmoll"

Characters Joe Gary (first appearance; villain); Alice Gary (first appearance; death)
Pencils Pierce Rice?

8 page D-13 story "Attack on the QUEENSLAND"

Characters D-13 [Richard Anthony]; Kapitan Von Garf (first appearance; villain); Maj. Von Volke (first appearance; villain)
Script Bert Whitman?
Pencils Bert Whitman?
Inks Bert Whitman?