Mystery Men Comics (1939) 23

Cover by Chuck Cuidera. Stories by Dick Briefer, Al Weine and Nathaniel Nitkin. Art by Charles Nicholas, Dick Briefer, Walter Frehm, Paul Gustavson, and Munson Paddock. An anthology of Golden Age adventure comics from Fox Feature, including the original Blue Beetle. The Ugly Queen, who hates anything beautiful, returns to plague handsome Rex Dexter in another outsider-art-style story by Dick Briefer; The Blue Beetle leaps into action when a madman attacks the city with exploding pigeons; Zanzibar, who looks like Mandrake the Magician in a blue fez, investigates phony mediums who are swindling a wealthy man and his beautiful daughter. Gat Arat's Super-Weapon; The Return of the Ugly Queen; A Tryst With Death; The Spies of Frau Izan; The Abduction of Gen. Lee; Planes Over England; The Dropped Safe Murder; The Murder of Senator Harrington; The Phony Medium. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.