With Jack Kamen art not seen on a U.S. screening , Bell Features ' 4Most # 22 features Blue Beetle and Goldie the chorus girl .
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harmonize to GCD , Canadian comic Quran caller Bell Features only published a handful of proceeds have Blue Beetle , scattered across title such asMystery Adventure ThrillersandZoot . Publisher Superior also put out three outcome of theBlue Beetleseries in Canada . But4Most # 22from Bell Features might be the most interesting Canadian - published Blue Beetle of the cluster — and the most unnoticeable . This one has n’t even been document by GCD , and features one of the best Blue Beetle insure published in either the U.S. or Canada during this late Golden Age era . The blurb on theJack Kamencover repurposed from one of the interior narration ( originally published in Fox’sBlue Beetle # 49 ) tells the tale , as the activity take position " over the footlights of a girly - girly show to give up the living of Goldie , Queen of the Chorus ! " There ’s a4Most # 22(Bell Features , ca . 1947 ) VG condition copyup for auctionin the 2025 March 13Canadian Golden Age Comics ShowcaseAuction # 40290 at Heritage Auctions .
well remembered for his work at EC Comics across a range of genres including science fiction , repulsion , and offence , Jack Kamenalso made notable late-1940s donation to publishing house like Fiction House and Fox Feature Syndicate , where his good young lady graphics on title likePhantom Ladyamong others is also highly sought after by gatherer . We ’ve mentioned his Fox work onDagar , Desert Hawk , andRulah , Jungle Goddessrecently , and hisBlue Beetlework is also extremely seek after by collectors . This earned run average of the U.S.Blue Beetleseries is well live to have garnered a twosome of reference inFredric Wertham’sSeduction of the Innocent , but that ’s only part of the tale . In 1948 , shortly after the harder - edge truthful criminal offence storey and good girl art era had begin for this series , a telephone number of major metros around the United States putBlue Beetleon theirbanned cartoon strip lean .
In Canada that same year , theVancouver Sunwould say of Blue Beetle , " dot stuff this with bounteous ladling of super gender . In this regard , follows comic book pattern of impart reader sexual practice of one and half a dozen of the other . Blue Beetle is a copper named Dan Garret with a deep sense of public obligation which causes him to pull on what seems to be a suit of long underwear , bleached blue , whenever the world jeopardize to be fellate up ( and it almost is spoil up in one edition ) and foreclose it in the nick of time . feature on cover is the distinctive Miss Maximum Minimum . That is , she has a maximum of strong-arm ontogeny and a niminum of clothing . "
While much of the Fox line survived the 1948 era , Blue Beetleeffectively terminate that twelvemonth in the U.S. with matter # 57 . Interestingly , Fox had him progressively crowded off of the covers of his own series in favour of the beautiful women during this part of the foot race in the U.S. , make Canada’s4Most # 22an disposed symbol for this era of the character . There ’s a VG condition copyup for auctionin the 2025 March 13Canadian Golden Age Comics ShowcaseAuction # 40290 at Heritage Auctions .
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