Blue Beetle (1939 Fox/Holyoke) comic books

Add to cart CGC 7.0 $740.00 View scans Paper: Off white Label #4313783010

Add to cart CGC 6.0 $800.00 View scans Paper: Off white to white Label #4345602007

Edited by Victor Fox. Cover by Jack Kamen. Stories by Robert Webb, Jack Kamen, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, and Otis. Blue Beetle in "The Shady Lady," "The man Who Murdered Midas," and "The Cunning Corpse!" 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 Shady Lady; A female gang leader uses electricity black outs and darkness to rob banks. The Man Who Murdered Midas; Professor Midas invents a drink that turns living tissue into pure gold. The Cunning Corpse; Joan Mason gets into trouble investigating criminals stealing corpses. 36 pages, full color. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.

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.

The Power of the Press; Dan Garret and the Blue Beetle return after a nearly two year absence, during which Dan did overseas work for the government. Appointment With Death; Dan Garret overhears a plot to kill a professor working on atomic secrets in the subway, and must save both the Professor and Joan as the Blue Beetle. Sink That Ball; The Blue Beetle helps a high school basketball player who is being blackmailed into throwing the championship game. 36 pgs. $0.10. 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 crime in the world of boxing; Reporter Joan Mason, the Beetle's girlfriend, and her photographer pal have a Hitchcockian showdown with a killer on the torch of the Statue of Liberty. Murder In the Ring; Explosive Action; Joan Mason: Reproduction of Terror. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.

Art by Jack Kamen and others. 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 gets involved when hoods invade a charity circus to steal a priceless artifact from a struggling magician; Reporter Joan Mason, the Beetle's girlfriend, investigates a murder during a stage play; The Beetle stumbles on a forgery plot at a Van Gogh exhibit. Crime Circus; Joan Mason: Onstage Murder; Justice Wasn't Blind; The Bloody Artist. Final issue of the series; the character returned in the 1960s Charlton series. 32 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10.