Blue Beetle #4 - Praying Mantis Man!

Blue Beetle #4 featuring the mystical Dan Garrett Blue Beetle hit stands in 1965. Underneath a great Dick Giordano cover we are introduced to the Charlton Blue Beetle's only returning villain -- Praying Mantis - Man. 

This wild story of a green maniac threatening the world was written by Joe Gill and drawn by the steady team of Tony Tallarico and Bill Fraccio. Blue Beetle travels into the Mexico to track down a threat to the environment and finds a strange menace. 

The outreach by the Charlton gang to fans ramps up with a second letters page, this one with a contest concerning Blue Beetle's costume. 

And we are treated to the very first Blue Beetle Pin-Up. Read the complete comic at this link. More Blue Beetle tomorrow. 

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