New Blue Beetle #3 - The Madmen!

The New Blue Beetle #3 featuring the Ted Kord Blue Beetle by Steve Ditko hit stands in 1967.  Ditko is really hitting his stride in this wild one which centers around his gun, a gun our hero loses in battle, but not to worry, he has a tech solution which frankly makes sense for all guns and is possible today. Once again D.C. Glanzman is listed as scripter but that's a ruse by Ditko. 

The Madmen are a gang of tough robbers called the Fleeter Mob who like the Beetle, dress up to go to "work". It's hard not to see more than a bit of The Creeper in these guys. 

We are treated to a letters page once again. There's no doubt fans love this incarnation of the hero as redesigned by Ditko. 

The Question returns as the back-up feature and more on him later this summer. 

This is my absolutely favorite comic book ad. It thrilled me as a kid when I chanced on it in the few Charlton comics I had back then. Art by Ditko of course as well as Pete Morisi, Pat Boyette and Frank McLaughlin. This is the apogee of Dick Giordano's "Action-Hero" line-up. 

This issue of Blue Beetle got the Modern Comics treatment in the 70's.  

Read the complete comic at this link. 

More Blue Beetle tomorrow. 

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