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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Holyoke
Title: Blue Beetle
Page Count: 68
Genre: Anthropomorphic-funny Animals, Children, Detective-mystery, Humor, Jungle, Military, Non-fiction, Superhero, War
Era: Golden
Cover Price: 0.10 USD
Cover Date: November 1943
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Country: United States
A scientist sprays truth gas over the city, inciting a mob.; 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....; Biography of Sikorsky's attempts and eventual success at building a helicopter.; 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.; 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 kiled 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.; 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.; 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 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.; Willie looks after a parrot but his friends teach the parrot some new vocabulary.; Rod tries to learn the "manly art of self-defense", but chooses a first opponent who is too skilled.