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Cover: Chuck Cuidera
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Blue Beetle #6

Mar 1941 · Fox · 0.10 USD
📊 ~33,118 copies sold its debut month
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The Blue Beetle confronts a criminal mastermind named Vango who threatens to take over the city with a secret drug and possesses a dangerous atom ray cannon. After an advertising stunt goes wrong and causes public panic, Dan Garrett transforms into the Blue Beetle to stop Vango's plot. The story culminates with a confrontation involving Vango's mysterious weapon and a crashing aircraft, with the Blue Beetle pursuing the villain to prevent him from escaping with his destructive technology.

Contains 6 stories
The Crime Coils of the Eel
15 pp · Superhero
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]The Eel (villain, introduction, death)Brute (villain, introduction, death)another crook (villain, introduction, death)

The Blue Beetle battles The Eel, a ruthless criminal mastermind who's tightening his grip on the city's food supply by extorting the trucking companies through violence and intimidation. When The Eel captures Dan Garret's fellow officer Mike and the mysterious Joan Mason, the Blue Beetle must fight his way through The Eel's gang—including the brutish Brute—to stop the racket before the madman carries out his sinister plans.

The Book Murders
10 pp · Superhero
The Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]The Wart (villain, introduction, death)Ivor Nick (villain, introduction, death)

Dan Garret, the Blue Beetle, must stop The Wart—a ruthless killer who's been booby-trapping books and sending them to crime-fighting columnists—before the villain can eliminate another target. When Dan uses a reporter as bait to draw The Wart out of hiding, he finds himself caught between the masked killer and a shocking revelation: The Wart is merely an assistant to the true mastermind behind the murders. Protected by his special armor and powered by Vitamin 2-X, the Blue Beetle faces a race against time to save the woman in danger and bring the real criminal to justice.

The Doctored Dive Bomber
6 pp
Prussland agents (villains, introduction)
The Vengeance of Vango
10 pp
Vango (villain, introduction, death?)
The Atom Ray Saboteurs
10 pp · Superhero
Dynamite Thor [aka The Explosion Man] [Peter Thor]Glenda (Thor's fiance)Mr. Quinn (aircraft company head, death)The Blue Diamond Gang [GrootGordonNickothers unnamed] (villains, introduction for all, all die)
The Harpie of Horror
8 pp
Lugo (villain, introduction, death)

Sub Saunders springs into action when a mysterious undersea creature called Lugo drags a young woman, Jane, down to his submerged cavern with plans to make her his bride. Racing against time in the ocean depths, Sub must navigate Lugo's domain, contend with a monstrous snake-dragon guardian, and rescue Jane before the villain's twisted wedding feast begins. It's a wild underwater slugfest packed with danger, ancient creatures, and one lone-wolf crusader determined to stop Lugo's sinister schemes.

ComicBooks.com Value

Our Model is In Beta
Raw (Good) $187
CGC 7.0 · 1 in census $652
CGC 6.5 none in existence
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $652
CGC 5.5 none in existence
CGC 5.0 none in existence
CGC 4.5 · 2 in census $366
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CGC 4.0 none in existence
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $280*
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $248
CGC 2.5 none in existence
CGC 2.0 none in existence
CGC 1.5 · 2 in census $169
CGC 1.0 · 2 in census $125
CGC 0.5 · 1 in census $86*
* estimate — limited direct-sales data at this grade
Our model’s value — refined as new sales data arrives · CGC census counts shown where available

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Full credits

artist, inker Roland Patenaude
cover pencils, inks Chuck Cuidera

Reprints

Reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #98 (2015)

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