Blue Beetle (1939 Fox/Holyoke) comic books 1948

Stories by Ed Lane and others. Art by Jack Kamen and others.. Fox Feature Syndicate presents the first series featuring the original version of the Blue Beetle. A Blue Beetle Christmas story; The Blue Beetle tells the true story of the organized crime gang Murder Incorporated. Featuring an action-packed bondage cover by an unknown artist. The Fiddling Crooks!; Twas the Night Before Christmas; Murder O'Clock; Sadie Krum, Girl Bandit; Murder Incorporated. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Stories by Joe Adder and others. Art by Jack Kamen and others.. Fox Feature Syndicate presents the first series featuring the original version of the Blue Beetle. The Beetle gets involved in a film shoot and winds up making an underwater rescue; The Blue Beetle investigates a series of women jumping to their deaths; The Beetle tells the true story of gangster "Legs" Diamond. Featuring another lurid cover by an unknown artist, as the series transforms into one of the era's many crime comics. Murder on Strange Street; Suicide for Sale!; Rat Poison; Homicide Diary: The Case of the Lethal Christmas Package; True Crime Case: Jack Legs Diamond, Scorpion of Crime. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Fox Feature Syndicate presents the first series featuring the original version of the Blue Beetle, which by this time was becoming one of the era's many crime comics. The Beetle investigates after a model disappears; The Beetle tells the true story of cop-killer Victor Gelson. Featuring the most lurid cover yet, by an unknown artist, one that was reproduced in Seduction of the Innocent. (Note the possibly erroneous missing bra-straps - visible in the woman's reflection - that make the cover even tawdrier.) The Vanishing Nude; House of a Thousand Corpses; The Deadly Three; Tropical Topics; True Crime Story: Victor Gelson, the Murdering Showoff. 36 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Edited by Victor Fox. Stories by Robert Webb and Jack Kamen. Tales of daring-do starring Blue Beetle, a super-hero who wears a special bulletproof costume and takes "Vitamin 2X" which gives him super-energy. The Counterfeit Co-Ed; Gangster Lushy Lemond hides out by pretending to be a college girl. The Anonymous Atom; Blue Beetle battles Red Donahue. Carlo Barone the Human Vulture; a story narrated by Blue Beetle. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

Cover by Jack Kamen. Fox Feature Syndicate presents the first series featuring the original version of the Blue Beetle, which by this time was becoming one of the era's many crime comics. The Beetle tracks a killer of women, only to learn she's a woman herself: the masked Sphinx; Frankie becomes a heroin pusher in a typically lurid crime story of the era; The Beetle tells the true story of bank robber and Depression-era outlaw Wilber Underhill. Featuring violent imagery that got the issue mentioned in Seduction of the Innocent. The Sinister Sphinx!; An Invitation to Danger!; Killers at Large; True Crime Story: Wilber Underhill; Gang Leaders. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Cover art by Jack Kamen. The Black Widow; Navy sailors are being murdered, suffocated by a plastic film that Navy was developed in secret, and each marked with a dead black black widow spider. The Lady Firebug; Dan, Mike and Joan know something is up when homeowners start burning their own homes and turning themselves in for arson; Blue Beetle gets into trouble when Lady Medusa hypnotizes him to be her spy on the police force. Partners in Loot; Blue Beetle narrates the crime career and superstitions of the Fleagle Brothers. 36 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.