Thursday, June 18, 2026

Blue Beetle #53 - The People Thieves!


Blue Beetle #53 featuring the mystical Dan Garrett Blue Beetle hit stands in 1965. The series picked up the numbering of Mysterious Worlds. Joe Gill is the scripter and Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico supply the artwork for the insides as well as the stark cover. This was my very first issue of Blue Beetle and is marked in my young memory. 


Hunter Mann The Praying Mantis Man returns and this time his scheme is to use giant insects to eradicate the human population, and he will restart society using selected humans he has frozen in advance. The Blue Beetle gets involved and saves the day yet again. 


I was most eager to get my mitts on the comics featured in this ad. It would be decades before I got to read them all. "The Beetle's Nest" is gone and replaced by one of Charlton's typical prose pieces.

Read the complete comic at this link

More Blue Beetle tomorrow. 

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