Modern (1967ish?) Blue Beetle starts out in the back of Cap'n Atom for four issues, #s 83-86. The cool little cover banners only happened on three issues (I want another!). Then, BB gets his own rag, and another back-up, The Question, who was basically a homogenized Mr. A. This Mr. A splash is from the rare fanzine Eon, which is only rare to me cause I didn't see or hear about it when it came out. That kinda reminds me of Bill Murray picking the Oscar-winning movies on Week-end Update right before the Oscars. He eliminated lots of contenders because he just hadn't seen them, and (as I recall), he was usually right
I had bought Charlton comics second-hand ( for 5 cents at a place I used to spend my lawn-mowing money ) because they were so strange-looking. Blue Beetle # 2 was the first one I bought new at a bus terminal news stand. I thought it was the first issue because it was the origin. When I figured out what I had, I almost immediately took a bus back to the same news stand and bought # 1.
ReplyDeleteYou, sir, were one sharp puppy. I love #2 (not numbered on the cover), and I didn't catch #1 until 10 years later as a Modern reprint
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