Blue Beetle #10

The Blue Beetle faces his most sinister case yet when a mysterious killer known as the "Burning Death" emerges—a murderer who leaves victims with veins and arteries transformed by some unknown, deadly drug. When Dan Garret's investigation as a police officer points toward Leo Sugar, a drug manufacturer and partner of the first victim, the Blue Beetle confronts him directly, only to discover Sugar has perfected a horrifying weapon and isn't afraid to use it. Now the hero must stop Sugar before more innocents fall prey to his terrible creation.

When a tramp meets a gruesome end at the hands of banker Marcus Hook, the Blue Beetle finds himself caught between two corpses and a web of deception—a body in Hook's mansion with suspiciously wrong hands, a missing druggist, and a house full of suspects with secrets to hide. As Dan Garret investigates the contradictions in the evidence, he must race against time to uncover what really happened and stop the killers before another innocent person falls victim to their scheme.

When a millionaire sports man takes a fatal plunge from a rooftop, the Blue Beetle joins forces with policeman Mike Mannigan and visiting Scotland Yard official Lord Summer to uncover a sinister plot behind a string of mysterious "suicides"—only to discover that forged suicide notes and a masked killer suggest something far more sinister than despair. As Dan Garret transforms into the Blue Beetle, he races to stop actor James Bourne and the supposedly-dead forger Scribbler from claiming another victim, but his investigation leads him directly into Bourne's trap.

When a mysterious monster rises from the swamp and begins derailing freight trains, patrolman Dan Garret—who moonlights as the Blue Beetle—teams up with his partner Mike Mannigan and reporter Joan Mason to investigate. As they close in on the truth, Joan is captured and dragged into the marsh by the swamp's grotesque inhabitants, forcing the Blue Beetle to pursue them into a hidden underground lair where the Swamp Master waits with sinister plans and a deadly interrogation in store.

In "The Gorilla and the Gangsters," the enigmatic half-human, half-gorilla—once known only to a few—strikes a brutal blow against the underworld by eliminating mobster Renard and seizing control of his empire. With Elsa Bonn, one of the only two who know his true identity, now in his grasp, he begins manipulating the criminal world from the shadows, using her as a pawn in a dangerous game of power and deception.