Blue Beetle #5 - The Red Knight!

Blue Beetle #5  featuring the mystical Dan Garrett Blue Beetle hit stands in 1965. Under yet another striking Dick Giordano cover we get the fifth and final issue in Blue Beetle's run. He will return for more adventures, but under different numbering. (More on that next week.) 

We actually get credits this issue featuring writer Joe Gill and artists Bill Fraccio and Tony Tallarico. The Beetle battles an old friend who has come under strange influences and becomes a strangely powered Red Knight. Chess is established as something of an inspiration for this wild story of space travel and world domination. 

In the "Beetle's Nest" this time we get a look at work by Alan Weiss when he sends in a revised Blue Beetle costume. There's a letter by Dave Kaler, a fan who will become part of the Charlton firmament sooner than later on Captain Atom. Read the complete comic at this link. 

More Blue Beetle to come.

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