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Issue Details

Issue #4
Published January 1965
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Pat Masulli

Cover Details - "Praying Mantis-Man"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man; Juanita Rivera
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Giordano
Inks Dick Giordano

7 page Blue Beetle story "The Praying Mantis-Man"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Juanita Rivera; Praying Mantis-Man [Hunter Mann]; Professor Ybor
Genre superhero
Script Joe Gill
Pencils Bill Fraccio
Inks Tony Tallarico

1 page story "The Silent World"

Genre fact; science; fantasy

4 page Blue Beetle story "The Chlorophyll Man Chapter 2"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man
Genre Superhero
Script Joe Gill
Pencils Bill Fraccio
Inks Tony Tallarico

2 page Blue Beetle letters page "The Beetle's Nest"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Genre Superhero
Pencils ? (illustrations)
Inks ? (illustrations)
Letters typeset
Notes Letters of comment from readers Paul McSpadden, Henry Hegman, Dennis Knuth, Robert Vann, Dave Fitzpatrick, Randy Montgomery, Norman R. Doerner, Cynthia Diay and Jerry D. Johnson.

4 page Blue Beetle story "The Garden of Crawling Death - 3"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Juanita Rivera; Praying Mantis-Man
Genre Superhero
Script Joe Gill
Pencils Bill Fraccio
Inks Tony Tallarico

3 page story "The Outpost"

Genre war; science fiction
Inks Jon D'Agostino?
Notes Original indexer had credits for Joe Sinnott and Jon D'Agostino. However, in a list of Mr. Sinnott's work, his son Mark claims he did not do any work for Charlton after 1963. This also puts the inking credit to question.

1 page Blue Beetle illustration "Blue Beetle Pin-Up"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
Genre superhero
Pencils Pat Masulli
Inks Pat Masulli
Letters typeset; ?

5 page Blue Beetle story "The Mantis and the Beetle - 4"

Characters Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man; Juanita Rivera
Genre Superhero
Script Joe Gill
Pencils Bill Fraccio
Inks Tony Tallarico