Blue Beetle #54 featuring the mystical Dan Garrett Blue Beetle hit stands in 1965. The series picked up the numbering of Mysterious Worlds. Novice writer Roy Thomas writes the script for the last issue of the classic Blue Beetle from Charlton. The team of Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico are still on hand to supply the artwork.
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Thomas creates a story which delves into Blue Beetle's origins and features the curse of the Eye of Horus. Beetle must seek wisdom from the ancient pharaoh who was himself Blue Beetle and defeated the Eye. This story has a real classic Shazam feel to it and I'm certain that if Thomas had been given a few more issues, he'd have given Blue Beetle a partner in the form of a young boy who gets zapped in the course of the story.
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This one features another great house ad. In the modern day of the internet, it's difficult I guess for fans to recollect just how evocative these ads could be. Often a fan would see a comic which was long gone and out of reach. It was gratifying to get my mitts on all of the classic comics featured in these Charlton ads.
And this ad just cracks me up. It's just bizarre. For just a buck one could have their dreams shattered. Ain't capitalism a blast!
Read the complete comic at this link.
The all-new Blue Beetle makes his debut next time.
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Happy Juneteenth, Rip! Here in the UK we don't have a holiday to remember the end of slavery but perhaps we should, considering Britain invented the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
ReplyDeleteThe current ignoble administration has done its dead level best to try to sink "slavery" down the collective memory hole by removing uncomfortable but necessary historical reminders from public parks and monuments. Juneteenth is a necessary holiday for my country, to give lie to the dimwitted notion that slavery wasn't the horror that it clearly was.
DeleteI remember growing "magic rocks" a few times, but didn't have to send for them as they could be found at my local hobby shop. I wonder if the "7 monsters" were related to those.
ReplyDeleteProbably. The ad was likely trying to give the whole product a Sea Monkeys vibe.
DeleteHa - I love the ad about the 7 monsters! I never saw it in any comics, as it was a bit before my time. However, it does remind me of the Sea Monkeys ad!
ReplyDeleteJust mentioned them above, and I agree.
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