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Blue Beetle #27

Holyoke · Series began 1942 · November 1943

Dates

Cover date
November 1943
Pages
68

Editions and covers

Creators

script: Mell Lazarus, Sid Lazarus, Montgomery Mulfordpencils: Mell Lazarus, Sid Lazarus, Bob Kiplerinks: Mell Lazarus, Sid Lazarus, Bob Kipler

Stories

  • An Epidemic of Truth · 10 pages

    A scientist sprays truth gas over the city, inciting a mob.

  • Death in the Sky! · Crime Reporter · 6 pages

    A Nazi sabotages a new plane, killing the test pilot. But when the F.B.I closes in on him, he tries to escape in a plane he'd sabotaged and dies himself.

  • Untitled · 1 pages

    Willie looks after a parrot but his friends teach the parrot some new vocabulary.

  • Rod Ripley, Wizard of Science · 5 pages

    Rod Ripley and his companion Zarita must find the cure for a mysterious disease in the tomb of Rameses in the "Great Pyramid of Ghazi". They join British scientist Sir Malcom in Cairo. Ahmed, their guide, is killed by a falling stone as they try to enter the pyramid. As they take the formula from Rameses's sarcophagus, Rameses awakens and curses them. Then Isis appears, and tells them they may take the formula but only if they leave and never return. The three are happy to comply, and Ripley seals the pyramid behind them.

  • Turkey Joe · 5 pages

    Joe is a well-dressed turkey with no where to go on the farm, until he gets an invitation to dinner from the Army. But Joe fails to realize that he's being invited not to *be* dinner on Thanksgiving.

  • Rookie Rod · 1 pages

    Rod tries to learn the "manly art of self-defense", but chooses a first opponent who is too skilled.

  • Young Norwegian Hero Fools Gestapo · 2 pages

    Article describing the roles of Norwegians and Norwegian-Americans in the war.

  • Igor Sikorsky and His Amazing Helicopter · 9 pages

    Biography of Sikorsky's attempts and eventual success at building a helicopter.

  • The Case of the Fish Scale Man · Durrand Draw · 5 pages

    Durrand Draw is called to solve a case where a girl has been abducted by a man with fish scales on his skin. But the fish scale man's role is not what it first appears.

  • Tamaa, Jungle Prince · 5 pages

    Tamaa must free Augo from a tribe after he is captured as part of a ritual to choose the next chief, and then help the better candidate win.

  • Double Trouble [Part 1] · 10 pages

    The military sends a captured Gestapo agent back into Germany to impersonate the Blue Beetle and help free some captured soldiers. Unfortunately the Nazi goes back on his word, so the real Blue Beetle has to follow him and free his friends. Continued....

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