February 19, 2023 • 25 mins
The exploits of Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman who, by wearing bullet-proof blue chain mail, transformed himself into the mysterious Blue Beetle, a daring crusader for justice.
The Blue Beetle was created by Charles Nicholas. The character made his first appearance in August of 1939 in the comic book Mystery Men #1, published by Fox Features Syndicate.
The Blue Beetle radio serial aired from 05-15-40 to 09-13-40 as a CBS 30 minutes, syndicated series. Actor Frank Lovejoy provided the voice of the Blue Beetle for the first thirteen episodes. Later episodes were uncredited.
After his father was killed by a gangster's bullet, young Dan Garrett joined the New York Police Department, but soon tired of the slow pace and red tape of police work.
With the help of his friend and mentor, pharmacist and drug-store proprietor Dr. Franz, Dan acquired a costume of bullet-proof chain-mail-like cellulose material, and began a second life, fighting crime as The Blue Beetle.
His calling card was a small beetle-shaped marker that he left in conspicuous places to alert criminals to his presence, using their fear of his crime fighting reputation as a weapon against them. For this purpose he also used a "Beetle Signal" flashlight. The Blue Beetle's reputation was not his only weapon -- he carried a revolver in a blue holster on his belt, and was sometimes shown wearing a multi-pouched belt after the style set by Batman. Also in the Batman vein, the Blue Beetle had a "BeetleMobile" car and a "BeetleBird" airplane. In at least one radio adventure, he carries something called a "magic ray machine". The ray machine was a sort of super-scientific cutting device.
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The Blue Beetle was created by Charles Nicholas. The character made his first appearance in August of 1939 in the comic book Mystery Men #1, published by Fox Features Syndicate.
The Blue Beetle radio serial aired from 05-15-40 to 09-13-40 as a CBS 30 minutes, syndicated series. Actor Frank Lovejoy provided the voice of the Blue Beetle for the first thirteen episodes. Later episodes were uncredited.
After his father was killed by a gangster's bullet, young Dan Garrett joined the New York Police Department, but soon tired of the slow pace and red tape of police work.
With the help of his friend and mentor, pharmacist and drug-store proprietor Dr. Franz, Dan acquired a costume of bullet-proof chain-mail-like cellulose material, and began a second life, fighting crime as The Blue Beetle.
His calling card was a small beetle-shaped marker that he left in conspicuous places to alert criminals to his presence, using their fear of his crime fighting reputation as a weapon against them. For this purpose he also used a "Beetle Signal" flashlight. The Blue Beetle's reputation was not his only weapon -- he carried a revolver in a blue holster on his belt, and was sometimes shown wearing a multi-pouched belt after the style set by Batman. Also in the Batman vein, the Blue Beetle had a "BeetleMobile" car and a "BeetleBird" airplane. In at least one radio adventure, he carries something called a "magic ray machine". The ray machine was a sort of super-scientific cutting device.
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Mm The Blue Beetles weeping down uponthe underworld as mask gangling, comes the
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mysterious all powerful character who is aproblem to the police, but a good
sailors all off in reality, DamnGarrett, a rookie mc cold, loved
by everyone. What's suspected by noneof beings? The Blue Beetle As the
Blue Pettle be hides behind the screenof mask and a suit of impenetrable blue
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chain armor flex the bass still whatstronger banstel. Today's episode of the Fox
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feature The Blue Beetle is entitled TheUnderworld Goes Underground. Rival construction companies submitted
low bids for digging a tunnel underEastern Valley River from York City to Paradise
Islands. The Dunlap Construction Company wasawarded the contract. Many citizens and some
of the newspapers believe young Reginald Dunlap'sengagement to the daughter of Commissioner of Public
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Works Morrison was the main reason hegot the contract for his company. Since
works started on the tunnels, morethan the average number of accidents have occurred
in the workings. Strong pressure hasbeen brought to bear on Commissioner morrisons by
politicians and newspapers to cancel Dunlap's contractand give it to the Jenkins Company.
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During previous and less honest administrations,the Jenkins Company had a virtual monopoly on
all city construction work. As ourstory opens, Patrol and Dan Garrett,
who is really the blue Beetle,is discussing the matter with his friend and
confidence doctor Franz. I'm convinced thatthere's dirty work going on at the tunnel.
For what makes you so certain thepast record of the Dunlap Company.
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For one thing, Before this tunneljob, they enjoyed the reputation of having
fewer casualties on their jobs than anyother construction company in the country. If
this is a very difficult and hashis job, it is, But the
Dunlap people have had other jobs justas hazardous. Is that's true. I
went to college with young Dunlap,and I know he's a capable fellow.
When the old man died recently,Reggie took over the business. He's done
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a good job with it so far. What's causing all these accidents and so
many men getting the bin I don'tknow, but I'll bet Thumb group is
trying to undermine Reggie the thickly situationfor the commissioners. I can see it
is he wants to favor his prospectiveson in law, yet he can't disregard
the dangerous tuition that exists. Excuseme, Damny, is someone out front
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of the store. Yeah, it'shardly meed. Hello Mike, Hello,
come on back in the laboratory.Damn easy, Hello Mike, Hello,
Daddy, I was looking for youthere. There's trouble over at the mid
City Tunnel and we've been assigned toinvestig Ye, okay, I'll be right
with you. Anybody hust Minigan,Yeah, yeah, I think mister Dunlop
hisself was hurt. Reggie Dunlap,I think so. Come on, Mike,
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Reggie is a friend of mine.Along Doc see you later. You're
looking for someone, officer, Yes, mister Reginald Dunlow, my name is
Stanley, and the knight's over,Dunna said. Dunlap is in the airlock
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being decompressed. Can I see him? Pray not not at the moment.
What happened there, said Dunlap wasdown on the tunnel and inspecting the work.
That word that it's Beyonce. MissMarrison had been thrown from a horse
while riding in the city park.He immediately to rush to the service here
without spending enough time in the decompressionchamber. He got a severe attack of
the bends. Well, I'd liketo see him. I'm a personal friend
of his end and half hor Perhapshe's back of the decomprision chamber. I
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see, was miss Morrison hurt bythe fall? Broke an arm? I
believe he's a city hospital. Allthanks, mister Stanley. I'll take a
run over there and drop back herein half an hour. Rush still,
and Donnie drive me over to thecity hospital, Mike, Miss Morrison's been
injured. Can't see done laugh forhalf an hour? He's being treated for
the ven Oh fans, that's whatthem turnel workers get handed. Yes,
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well, what causes it, Danny? Well, in order to keep the
rock and month from falling in andcrushing the tunnel workers and stand moods,
and they're called compressed, air hasto be forced into the tunnel until the
air pressure against the sides and roofof the tunnel is as great as the
pressure of the river bed and thewater above the tunnel. Yeah, and
I can understand dot, But pressuremay vary from forty to sixty pounds to
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the square and shawled up. Mustbe tough on those sad and hide.
It is normal. Atmospheric pressure atsea level is only if team pounds a
square inch, and that's what thehuman body's accustomed to go on. When
the men go on the job,they spend a certain amount of time in
the compression chamber cold an airlock.While in the airlock, the air pressure
is gradually increased to a point whereit equals the pressure in the tunnel.
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The men are then able to passdirectly into the tunnel. They share a
chart of conditions. M huh,that's right, But what about when they
come out? All that takes longer. If the men aren't properly decompressed before
they come out into normal air pressure, paralysis and even death may result.
Well, here we are at thehospital. That it go ahead. Wait
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for me, Mike. I'll onlybe a few minutes. Okay, But
if you see any weird look conversers, just tell them to fight. Mattigan
had account of his own. Youwill find miss Morrison and that will right
there. Thank you. Art comein, Yeah, oh, what is
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it, officer, There's something happenedin it the gun. Low, don't
worry, miss Morrison. Nothing serioushas happened. I happened to be an
old college mate of Reggie's and Iheard you were here. I wanted to
ask you a few questions about youraccident. Will you help me? Why?
Of course I will. I'll doeverything I can to help Reggie.
Tell me what happened to you?When I was riding along the bridle path
in City Park when suddenly a mandashed out from behind some bushes, waving
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his hands and shouting, my horseshot and started to run away. I
stepped off my saddle and fall.That's all I know until I came to
here on the hospital. The brokenarm. Well, now tell me.
Do you often take that same rideand at the same time by almost every
day if the weather is clear?Why? Oh? Nothing. Well,
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I've got to hurry back and seeReggie. Miss Morrison. Now, don't
you worry anymore. Just take iteasy and met that arm of your set.
I'm going to find the answer tothese mysterious accidents. Well, Danny,
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what are you going to do withthose old clothes? Put them on
over my blue beetle chain armor.Going to a party disguised is a disguise,
now, Doc, you see beforeyou patroling Van Garrett alias the Blue
Beetle alias a sand park in themid City Tunnel job. But you're afraid
you'd be discovered. I have totake that chance. What did you learn
today? Not many things, Doc. I learned from Reggie when I could
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talk with him, that he's notaltogether satisfied with this new nighttime superintendent he
had Do you mean Stanley? Yes? Stanley's an experienced man, isn't he
Yes? And he came recommended bya friend of miss Morrison. What about
Miss Morrison's accident? I think thatwas planned with a hope that Reggie would
come rushing up out of the tunnelas soon as he got the news and
be incapacitated by an attack of thebin. Yes, well, what are
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you going to do? Go towork as a sand harder? Keep my
ears and eyes open? But youridentity? Does Devilot know you're doing this?
He asked me to help him solvethis case. I told him it
might prove embarrassing for his future fatherin law if word got around. The
member of the City Police Force wasworking as a special investigator for the Dunlap
Company so so I told him Iwas very close to the blue Beetle.
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I was sure I could persuade himto take the case of Betty and jeered.
Reggie got me a Union card anda note to Stanley and to start
work tonight. Anything you need,Denny, this is going to be dangerous
for I like a shot of yoursecret two X formula may prove useful if
by getting any trouble underground, youshall have it. Anything else not tonight,
We else along Dot. The blueBeetle will crawl underground tonight instead of
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flying, but his nippers will bejust as sharp. You're new on this
job, agent, Yeah, youwant a Stanley's men. I was hired
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by mister Dunlap. Oh what differencesthat make funny? The man Stanley's hiding
around for no good and trouble makeus? What do you mean? I've
worked with some of them before.They're always brought in when somebody wants to
slow up a job. They're nothingmore than gangsters. Who hired you,
young Dunlap sold man? What aboutall these accidents? Blowout, caven,
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look up trouble ahead. Don't lethim get you into a fight. They'll
chill you. Let him. Tryit. He's a spire, a new
guys aspires a minute. Yeah,let's get him over this. Yeah,
burn true, Yeah, let's geta blow. Hey you what's your name?
Blood do you? Oh? Yeah, well flood do you that?
Yeah? Like spoil? How doyou like that? Oh? I will
get him? Oh yeah, itwould be no month man. How do
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you competition? The guys can't go. He's got a fruit steel hooding it.
Hey, it's the flow beetles bubno blue Beetle, and he's going
to burn you with his magic racegone here and the boss in the boys,
this man in the strange mask,it's the blue Beetle, lobele?
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Who sent you here? Blue Beetlefliers wherever crime and Crook's congregate well or
no crook's here. He was snobingaround a bit there, boys hard Yeah,
go after the office, get yourmoney. Take this blue Beetle with
you. Listen, mister Stanley.Ah, you had the compression chamber there,
you told lou Beetle. But letme see your masquerading space around here
again. I have a feeling youand I will meet again, mister stan
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Lean after the Blue Beetle finishes hisinvestigation shut it off, baby, she
boys, do you think he's whyto you? I don't worry when he
gets out of that compression chamber,Neither he nor Burke will ever be able
to tell what they know? Aresuspek you've never had the Ben's Blue Beetle?
What you're going to have them?Now? Camera a play? What
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will happen to the Blue Beetle ina compression chamber in the tunnel beneath the
Great River? Will Stanley's quick decompressionof the air in the chamber kill or
permanently paralyze the Blue Beetles? Thesequestions will be answered in the next episode
of The Blue People. The BlueBeetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in
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Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The BlueBeetle Magazine. The Blue Beetle is on
the air twice a week on thissame station. Consult the broadcast schedule in
your local newspapers, and don't forgetto listen into the Blue Beetles. The
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Blue Beetles weeping down upon the underworldas mash Gangling comes the mysterious all powerful
character who is a problem to thepolice. What I could say that all
in reality Damn Garrett are looking forcold loved by everyone that's suspected by none
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of beings. The Blue Beetle asthe Blue Puttle, he hides behind the
spring of man and a suit ofimpellegible blue chain, all of flexible ask
of the heels. Today's episode ofthe Fox feature The Blue Beetle is the
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second part of the story entitled TheUnderworld Goes Underground. Reginald Dunlap, head
of the Dunlap Construction Company, hasasked his friend Dan Garrett to make a
private investigation of the many mysterious accidentsthat have occurred during tunnel operations under the
Eastern Valley River. Due to certainpolitical angles involved, Dan tells Dunlap he'll
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get the Blue Beetle to do thejob. As the Blue Beetle, Dan
Garrett, disguised as the tunnel worker, makes an investigation, but is discovered
and after a fight, is orderedinto the airlock by the superintendent of the
job to be decompressed before ascending tothe surface with the Blue Beetle. In
the airlock is a man named Burke, a faithful employee whom Stanley, the
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superintendent, dislikes, and has justdischarged as the first episode ended, Stanley
and some of his filings are decompressingthe air in the chamber more quickly than
it's safe, in the hope thatthe Blue Beetle and Burke will be killed
as a result. As our storyopens, we are in the airlock with
Burke and the Blue Beetle. Whatare we going to do? Blue Beetle?
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What you helped in? The air? Pressure is going down so fast.
I can feel a cramps coming onin my leg of Richard Teeth,
old man, and bear it aswell as you can. Just as soon
as I can locate the valves inthis darkness, I'll stop the decompression.
Must be some control inside as wellas outside this chamber. I think there
is all of that, are right, I've found them, Lucky I had
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my flashlight with me. He's gettingcold in here. That's caused by the
expanding air. It draws heat fromsurrounding objects. Well, I hope you
can get a sound of here quickly. That's just what I don't want to
do there, shutting off the valveshere? What about standing in a gay
outside at the tunnel end of theairlock. They can't get in here.
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Now the door opens outward and thepressure from their side is too great.
We'll just take it easy for awhile and let our bodies adjust themselves to
the reduced pressure. Then I leta little more air out until the pressure
inside is the same as that inthe elevator shaft at the other side of
the chamber. But the cold,I'm freezing here, but on this sweater
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of mine. Yeah, but whatabout you. I don't need it.
I can stand the cold. I'veconditioned myself to it. Well, thanks
man, Where boy, this isgonna feel grand? How's the bends better?
I guess it must have been myimagination. A little little more air
out, that's more like it.I'll give it about fifteen more minutes in
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here, then it'll be safe toget out of here, point will I'll
be glad they burke. How manyof the men do you think are loyal
to mister Dunlight? Most of them. It's only the monkers that are new
on this job, them and Superinstemand Stanley. The muckers are the men
who shovel air hole away the muckthat's drilled away from in front of the
shield here. That's right, sandHugs. That is the Jewess gave him
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that name. Certainly it fits thatbunch of cutthroats to attack us. Yeah,
they're a pretty slummy bunch. Didyou ever work under Stanley before?
No? Never know anything about him, only that he's the son of Assemblyman
Stanley from the third election district.His last job, I believe, was
this foreman of a job on theWest coast. How'd you like to do
a young Dunlap a favor? Oh? Sure, he's always treated me all
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right, as his father before him. What do you want me to do?
Keep your mouth shut about this wholething? Boom? What about my
job? Let them fire you.Mister Dunlap will take care of you until
this matter is all cleared up.Then you'll get a real job if I
have anything to do with it.Okay, I don't know nothing. Well
that's on the shaft side. I'mgoing to open up. Hell, give
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me my sweaterback. I want toput on my disguise again. Okay,
yeah, here it is, andthanks a lot. How welcome? All
right? Yeah? Just a minute. Oh what's happened? Well now the
toll but we didn't give me answer. Oh, nothing's wrong. There was
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a fight in me and Burke gotfired you are Stanley fired as we want
to pay. I didn't get atthe office. I'm going to find out
what's wrong in the tunnel. Nothing'swrong except there's a few of the wrong
kind of rats in it. Comeon, Brick, we need some fresh
air. Here's the little friend ofthe entire project. And here here is
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a detailed friend of the air systemin the tunnel. Spy. Our engineer
in charge of the pumps will knowwhat to do when I give him the
go ahead. Your job flow keysto see that the steel emergency curtain is
jam So a wrong fall and theexplosion blows the holes of the roof,
lets the river flood the tunnel.Sure, all right, got chentully.
You want to make this accident agood book there can Come on me,
boss. Let make sure you getinto the air lock as quickly as possible.
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I don't want to lose any ofharm. Man, how ain't gonna
work it? Some of us areworking up at the shield. I'll be
right there with the water or breakthrough first, and I'll see that they
get a signal in advance. Theywill suddenly decide to strike. They don't
like the conditions under which they're working. All you men, those that I've
hired start back toward the airlock,to the decompression chamber before coming up out
of the tunnel. But most ofyou are near the airlock. I'll give
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the signal and mister Reginald Dunlop's constructioncompany can wind up. It's a fair
blue people, and he's going towise to get in my way again.
Blue Beetle, I failed last time, but this time I'm going to make
sure miss me, but I won'tmiss use Stanley. That for Dunlap and
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that for birth. Get ahead,even which I'm fluking bulletin, gets the
blue bee dog a chair out atset it home, and that takes care
of you. I'll just take theseplans and be on my way. I
don't think there'll be any more accidents. Mister tan lay Boy would have whompied
back. What about it? He'sgot our plans? Who beagle exposure.
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I'll let him try it. He'san outlaw wanted by the police. He
doesn't dare appear in any court totestify. Besides, those blueprints are meaningless
after the danger's done. Now,what are you gonna do? Phone scrags
and tell him to pull a job. At once, Anny, Where are
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you on my way to the midcity tunnel to try to stop a sabotage
job? Anything else? Yes,for all hospitals to have ambulances and pulmotors
hand over right away? Got that? Yes, yes, okay, rue,
people have to work fast. Goodbyeto I would buy Danny, No,
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no, what's the matter? Herehas been an accident? Blow explosion,
blow the hole through the riverbank.Everybody, Hey, rnn, don't
know it? Who beat us downthere? Who beat on? What's you
doing? Resto sandhog? Hey?He can do it? Anybody can?
I read a while? Back way? Let me in and the waters cover
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vice. I got away. Wecan't take it. He in one of
the clime and I'm back up there. Let him throw off out of the
water. I throw up like oneof the times through that store. There's
room for all in the airlock wherebreaking room gay way here the water into
here comes at the last man,list help me with the floor here.
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I got it. I always safe, saved, saved, every man saved
by the flue beetle. Well,Danny, how do you feel after your
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strenuous battle to day? I feelfine. That two X formula certainly puts
the vitality in this old carcass ofmine. Ah, you did a brave
and noble thing to night, Danny, saving all those name that was the
blue Beeetle's work to Yes, yes, but the blue Beetle is Dan Garrett,
and Dan Garrett is by sir Versa. And you know who's a happy
man to night, the Reggie Dunlap. I suppose now that his enemies have
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been exposed. Yes, yes,I guess he's happy. I don't mean
him, I mean Burke Bert.Yes, Burke a man who got fired
when Stanley discovered my blue beetle disguisein the tunnel. Well what about birth.
Well, Bert took over the operationof the pumps, and as a
reward for his work, Reggie hasgiven him that job from Ah, that's
splendid. Well, oh, whatare you going to do now, well,
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Duck, with the compliments of themanagement of doctor Franz's little apothecary shop,
I am going to make myself agreat big strawberry ice cream solar.
Oh fine, fine, Danny,that's a great idea. Hanging No,
I think I'll have one with you. Come out in front of the store.
We'll sit up at the counter andbe our own best customers. And
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so the Blue Beetle performed another nobledeed and brought some dishonest crooks to justice.
The morrow of this story is thatloyalty such as that of Burke the
Sandhog, brings its just rewards.What further adventures awaits the Blue Beetle in
his one man Crusaders crime. Thisquestion will be answered in the next episode
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of The Blue Beetle. The BlueBeetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in
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Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The BlueBeetle Magazine. The Blue Beetle is on
the air twice a week on thissame station. Consult the broadcast schedule in
your local newspapers, and don't forgetto listen in to The Blue Beetle. D
Mm The Blue Beetles weeping down uponthe underworld as mask gangling, comes the
(00:26):
mysterious all powerful character who is aproblem to the police, but a good
sailors all off in reality, DamnGarrett, a rookie mc cold, loved
by everyone. What's suspected by noneof beings? The Blue Beetle As the
Blue Pettle be hides behind the screenof mask and a suit of impenetrable blue
(00:46):
chain armor flex the bass still whatstronger banstel. Today's episode of the Fox
(01:07):
feature The Blue Beetle is entitled TheUnderworld Goes Underground. Rival construction companies submitted
low bids for digging a tunnel underEastern Valley River from York City to Paradise
Islands. The Dunlap Construction Company wasawarded the contract. Many citizens and some
of the newspapers believe young Reginald Dunlap'sengagement to the daughter of Commissioner of Public
(01:33):
Works Morrison was the main reason hegot the contract for his company. Since
works started on the tunnels, morethan the average number of accidents have occurred
in the workings. Strong pressure hasbeen brought to bear on Commissioner morrisons by
politicians and newspapers to cancel Dunlap's contractand give it to the Jenkins Company.
(01:56):
During previous and less honest administrations,the Jenkins Company had a virtual monopoly on
all city construction work. As ourstory opens, Patrol and Dan Garrett,
who is really the blue Beetle,is discussing the matter with his friend and
confidence doctor Franz. I'm convinced thatthere's dirty work going on at the tunnel.
For what makes you so certain thepast record of the Dunlap Company.
(02:19):
For one thing, Before this tunneljob, they enjoyed the reputation of having
fewer casualties on their jobs than anyother construction company in the country. If
this is a very difficult and hashis job, it is, But the
Dunlap people have had other jobs justas hazardous. Is that's true. I
went to college with young Dunlap,and I know he's a capable fellow.
When the old man died recently,Reggie took over the business. He's done
(02:42):
a good job with it so far. What's causing all these accidents and so
many men getting the bin I don'tknow, but I'll bet Thumb group is
trying to undermine Reggie the thickly situationfor the commissioners. I can see it
is he wants to favor his prospectiveson in law, yet he can't disregard
the dangerous tuition that exists. Excuseme, Damny, is someone out front
(03:02):
of the store. Yeah, it'shardly meed. Hello Mike, Hello,
come on back in the laboratory.Damn easy, Hello Mike, Hello,
Daddy, I was looking for youthere. There's trouble over at the mid
City Tunnel and we've been assigned toinvestig Ye, okay, I'll be right
with you. Anybody hust Minigan,Yeah, yeah, I think mister Dunlop
hisself was hurt. Reggie Dunlap,I think so. Come on, Mike,
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Reggie is a friend of mine.Along Doc see you later. You're
looking for someone, officer, Yes, mister Reginald Dunlow, my name is
Stanley, and the knight's over,Dunna said. Dunlap is in the airlock
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being decompressed. Can I see him? Pray not not at the moment.
What happened there, said Dunlap wasdown on the tunnel and inspecting the work.
That word that it's Beyonce. MissMarrison had been thrown from a horse
while riding in the city park.He immediately to rush to the service here
without spending enough time in the decompressionchamber. He got a severe attack of
the bends. Well, I'd liketo see him. I'm a personal friend
of his end and half hor Perhapshe's back of the decomprision chamber. I
(04:06):
see, was miss Morrison hurt bythe fall? Broke an arm? I
believe he's a city hospital. Allthanks, mister Stanley. I'll take a
run over there and drop back herein half an hour. Rush still,
and Donnie drive me over to thecity hospital, Mike, Miss Morrison's been
injured. Can't see done laugh forhalf an hour? He's being treated for
the ven Oh fans, that's whatthem turnel workers get handed. Yes,
(04:30):
well, what causes it, Danny? Well, in order to keep the
rock and month from falling in andcrushing the tunnel workers and stand moods,
and they're called compressed, air hasto be forced into the tunnel until the
air pressure against the sides and roofof the tunnel is as great as the
pressure of the river bed and thewater above the tunnel. Yeah, and
I can understand dot, But pressuremay vary from forty to sixty pounds to
(04:53):
the square and shawled up. Mustbe tough on those sad and hide.
It is normal. Atmospheric pressure atsea level is only if team pounds a
square inch, and that's what thehuman body's accustomed to go on. When
the men go on the job,they spend a certain amount of time in
the compression chamber cold an airlock.While in the airlock, the air pressure
is gradually increased to a point whereit equals the pressure in the tunnel.
(05:16):
The men are then able to passdirectly into the tunnel. They share a
chart of conditions. M huh,that's right, But what about when they
come out? All that takes longer. If the men aren't properly decompressed before
they come out into normal air pressure, paralysis and even death may result.
Well, here we are at thehospital. That it go ahead. Wait
(05:36):
for me, Mike. I'll onlybe a few minutes. Okay, But
if you see any weird look conversers, just tell them to fight. Mattigan
had account of his own. Youwill find miss Morrison and that will right
there. Thank you. Art comein, Yeah, oh, what is
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it, officer, There's something happenedin it the gun. Low, don't
worry, miss Morrison. Nothing serioushas happened. I happened to be an
old college mate of Reggie's and Iheard you were here. I wanted to
ask you a few questions about youraccident. Will you help me? Why?
Of course I will. I'll doeverything I can to help Reggie.
Tell me what happened to you?When I was riding along the bridle path
in City Park when suddenly a mandashed out from behind some bushes, waving
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his hands and shouting, my horseshot and started to run away. I
stepped off my saddle and fall.That's all I know until I came to
here on the hospital. The brokenarm. Well, now tell me.
Do you often take that same rideand at the same time by almost every
day if the weather is clear?Why? Oh? Nothing. Well,
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I've got to hurry back and seeReggie. Miss Morrison. Now, don't
you worry anymore. Just take iteasy and met that arm of your set.
I'm going to find the answer tothese mysterious accidents. Well, Danny,
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what are you going to do withthose old clothes? Put them on
over my blue beetle chain armor.Going to a party disguised is a disguise,
now, Doc, you see beforeyou patroling Van Garrett alias the Blue
Beetle alias a sand park in themid City Tunnel job. But you're afraid
you'd be discovered. I have totake that chance. What did you learn
today? Not many things, Doc. I learned from Reggie when I could
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talk with him, that he's notaltogether satisfied with this new nighttime superintendent he
had Do you mean Stanley? Yes? Stanley's an experienced man, isn't he
Yes? And he came recommended bya friend of miss Morrison. What about
Miss Morrison's accident? I think thatwas planned with a hope that Reggie would
come rushing up out of the tunnelas soon as he got the news and
be incapacitated by an attack of thebin. Yes, well, what are
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you going to do? Go towork as a sand harder? Keep my
ears and eyes open? But youridentity? Does Devilot know you're doing this?
He asked me to help him solvethis case. I told him it
might prove embarrassing for his future fatherin law if word got around. The
member of the City Police Force wasworking as a special investigator for the Dunlap
Company so so I told him Iwas very close to the blue Beetle.
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I was sure I could persuade himto take the case of Betty and jeered.
Reggie got me a Union card anda note to Stanley and to start
work tonight. Anything you need,Denny, this is going to be dangerous
for I like a shot of yoursecret two X formula may prove useful if
by getting any trouble underground, youshall have it. Anything else not tonight,
We else along Dot. The blueBeetle will crawl underground tonight instead of
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flying, but his nippers will bejust as sharp. You're new on this
job, agent, Yeah, youwant a Stanley's men. I was hired
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by mister Dunlap. Oh what differencesthat make funny? The man Stanley's hiding
around for no good and trouble makeus? What do you mean? I've
worked with some of them before.They're always brought in when somebody wants to
slow up a job. They're nothingmore than gangsters. Who hired you,
young Dunlap sold man? What aboutall these accidents? Blowout, caven,
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look up trouble ahead. Don't lethim get you into a fight. They'll
chill you. Let him. Tryit. He's a spire, a new
guys aspires a minute. Yeah,let's get him over this. Yeah,
burn true, Yeah, let's geta blow. Hey you what's your name?
Blood do you? Oh? Yeah, well flood do you that?
Yeah? Like spoil? How doyou like that? Oh? I will
get him? Oh yeah, itwould be no month man. How do
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you competition? The guys can't go. He's got a fruit steel hooding it.
Hey, it's the flow beetles bubno blue Beetle, and he's going
to burn you with his magic racegone here and the boss in the boys,
this man in the strange mask,it's the blue Beetle, lobele?
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Who sent you here? Blue Beetlefliers wherever crime and Crook's congregate well or
no crook's here. He was snobingaround a bit there, boys hard Yeah,
go after the office, get yourmoney. Take this blue Beetle with
you. Listen, mister Stanley.Ah, you had the compression chamber there,
you told lou Beetle. But letme see your masquerading space around here
again. I have a feeling youand I will meet again, mister stan
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Lean after the Blue Beetle finishes hisinvestigation shut it off, baby, she
boys, do you think he's whyto you? I don't worry when he
gets out of that compression chamber,Neither he nor Burke will ever be able
to tell what they know? Aresuspek you've never had the Ben's Blue Beetle?
What you're going to have them?Now? Camera a play? What
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will happen to the Blue Beetle ina compression chamber in the tunnel beneath the
Great River? Will Stanley's quick decompressionof the air in the chamber kill or
permanently paralyze the Blue Beetles? Thesequestions will be answered in the next episode
of The Blue People. The BlueBeetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in
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Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The BlueBeetle Magazine. The Blue Beetle is on
the air twice a week on thissame station. Consult the broadcast schedule in
your local newspapers, and don't forgetto listen into the Blue Beetles. The
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Blue Beetles weeping down upon the underworldas mash Gangling comes the mysterious all powerful
character who is a problem to thepolice. What I could say that all
in reality Damn Garrett are looking forcold loved by everyone that's suspected by none
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of beings. The Blue Beetle asthe Blue Puttle, he hides behind the
spring of man and a suit ofimpellegible blue chain, all of flexible ask
of the heels. Today's episode ofthe Fox feature The Blue Beetle is the
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second part of the story entitled TheUnderworld Goes Underground. Reginald Dunlap, head
of the Dunlap Construction Company, hasasked his friend Dan Garrett to make a
private investigation of the many mysterious accidentsthat have occurred during tunnel operations under the
Eastern Valley River. Due to certainpolitical angles involved, Dan tells Dunlap he'll
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get the Blue Beetle to do thejob. As the Blue Beetle, Dan
Garrett, disguised as the tunnel worker, makes an investigation, but is discovered
and after a fight, is orderedinto the airlock by the superintendent of the
job to be decompressed before ascending tothe surface with the Blue Beetle. In
the airlock is a man named Burke, a faithful employee whom Stanley, the
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superintendent, dislikes, and has justdischarged as the first episode ended, Stanley
and some of his filings are decompressingthe air in the chamber more quickly than
it's safe, in the hope thatthe Blue Beetle and Burke will be killed
as a result. As our storyopens, we are in the airlock with
Burke and the Blue Beetle. Whatare we going to do? Blue Beetle?
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What you helped in? The air? Pressure is going down so fast.
I can feel a cramps coming onin my leg of Richard Teeth,
old man, and bear it aswell as you can. Just as soon
as I can locate the valves inthis darkness, I'll stop the decompression.
Must be some control inside as wellas outside this chamber. I think there
is all of that, are right, I've found them, Lucky I had
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my flashlight with me. He's gettingcold in here. That's caused by the
expanding air. It draws heat fromsurrounding objects. Well, I hope you
can get a sound of here quickly. That's just what I don't want to
do there, shutting off the valveshere? What about standing in a gay
outside at the tunnel end of theairlock. They can't get in here.
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Now the door opens outward and thepressure from their side is too great.
We'll just take it easy for awhile and let our bodies adjust themselves to
the reduced pressure. Then I leta little more air out until the pressure
inside is the same as that inthe elevator shaft at the other side of
the chamber. But the cold,I'm freezing here, but on this sweater
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of mine. Yeah, but whatabout you. I don't need it.
I can stand the cold. I'veconditioned myself to it. Well, thanks
man, Where boy, this isgonna feel grand? How's the bends better?
I guess it must have been myimagination. A little little more air
out, that's more like it.I'll give it about fifteen more minutes in
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here, then it'll be safe toget out of here, point will I'll
be glad they burke. How manyof the men do you think are loyal
to mister Dunlight? Most of them. It's only the monkers that are new
on this job, them and Superinstemand Stanley. The muckers are the men
who shovel air hole away the muckthat's drilled away from in front of the
shield here. That's right, sandHugs. That is the Jewess gave him
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that name. Certainly it fits thatbunch of cutthroats to attack us. Yeah,
they're a pretty slummy bunch. Didyou ever work under Stanley before?
No? Never know anything about him, only that he's the son of Assemblyman
Stanley from the third election district.His last job, I believe, was
this foreman of a job on theWest coast. How'd you like to do
a young Dunlap a favor? Oh? Sure, he's always treated me all
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right, as his father before him. What do you want me to do?
Keep your mouth shut about this wholething? Boom? What about my
job? Let them fire you.Mister Dunlap will take care of you until
this matter is all cleared up.Then you'll get a real job if I
have anything to do with it.Okay, I don't know nothing. Well
that's on the shaft side. I'mgoing to open up. Hell, give
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me my sweaterback. I want toput on my disguise again. Okay,
yeah, here it is, andthanks a lot. How welcome? All
right? Yeah? Just a minute. Oh what's happened? Well now the
toll but we didn't give me answer. Oh, nothing's wrong. There was
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a fight in me and Burke gotfired you are Stanley fired as we want
to pay. I didn't get atthe office. I'm going to find out
what's wrong in the tunnel. Nothing'swrong except there's a few of the wrong
kind of rats in it. Comeon, Brick, we need some fresh
air. Here's the little friend ofthe entire project. And here here is
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a detailed friend of the air systemin the tunnel. Spy. Our engineer
in charge of the pumps will knowwhat to do when I give him the
go ahead. Your job flow keysto see that the steel emergency curtain is
jam So a wrong fall and theexplosion blows the holes of the roof,
lets the river flood the tunnel.Sure, all right, got chentully.
You want to make this accident agood book there can Come on me,
boss. Let make sure you getinto the air lock as quickly as possible.
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I don't want to lose any ofharm. Man, how ain't gonna
work it? Some of us areworking up at the shield. I'll be
right there with the water or breakthrough first, and I'll see that they
get a signal in advance. Theywill suddenly decide to strike. They don't
like the conditions under which they're working. All you men, those that I've
hired start back toward the airlock,to the decompression chamber before coming up out
of the tunnel. But most ofyou are near the airlock. I'll give
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the signal and mister Reginald Dunlop's constructioncompany can wind up. It's a fair
blue people, and he's going towise to get in my way again.
Blue Beetle, I failed last time, but this time I'm going to make
sure miss me, but I won'tmiss use Stanley. That for Dunlap and
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that for birth. Get ahead,even which I'm fluking bulletin, gets the
blue bee dog a chair out atset it home, and that takes care
of you. I'll just take theseplans and be on my way. I
don't think there'll be any more accidents. Mister tan lay Boy would have whompied
back. What about it? He'sgot our plans? Who beagle exposure.
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I'll let him try it. He'san outlaw wanted by the police. He
doesn't dare appear in any court totestify. Besides, those blueprints are meaningless
after the danger's done. Now,what are you gonna do? Phone scrags
and tell him to pull a job. At once, Anny, Where are
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you on my way to the midcity tunnel to try to stop a sabotage
job? Anything else? Yes,for all hospitals to have ambulances and pulmotors
hand over right away? Got that? Yes, yes, okay, rue,
people have to work fast. Goodbyeto I would buy Danny, No,
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no, what's the matter? Herehas been an accident? Blow explosion,
blow the hole through the riverbank.Everybody, Hey, rnn, don't
know it? Who beat us downthere? Who beat on? What's you
doing? Resto sandhog? Hey?He can do it? Anybody can?
I read a while? Back way? Let me in and the waters cover
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vice. I got away. Wecan't take it. He in one of
the clime and I'm back up there. Let him throw off out of the
water. I throw up like oneof the times through that store. There's
room for all in the airlock wherebreaking room gay way here the water into
here comes at the last man,list help me with the floor here.
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I got it. I always safe, saved, saved, every man saved
by the flue beetle. Well,Danny, how do you feel after your
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strenuous battle to day? I feelfine. That two X formula certainly puts
the vitality in this old carcass ofmine. Ah, you did a brave
and noble thing to night, Danny, saving all those name that was the
blue Beeetle's work to Yes, yes, but the blue Beetle is Dan Garrett,
and Dan Garrett is by sir Versa. And you know who's a happy
man to night, the Reggie Dunlap. I suppose now that his enemies have
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been exposed. Yes, yes,I guess he's happy. I don't mean
him, I mean Burke Bert.Yes, Burke a man who got fired
when Stanley discovered my blue beetle disguisein the tunnel. Well what about birth.
Well, Bert took over the operationof the pumps, and as a
reward for his work, Reggie hasgiven him that job from Ah, that's
splendid. Well, oh, whatare you going to do now, well,
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Duck, with the compliments of themanagement of doctor Franz's little apothecary shop,
I am going to make myself agreat big strawberry ice cream solar.
Oh fine, fine, Danny,that's a great idea. Hanging No,
I think I'll have one with you. Come out in front of the store.
We'll sit up at the counter andbe our own best customers. And
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so the Blue Beetle performed another nobledeed and brought some dishonest crooks to justice.
The morrow of this story is thatloyalty such as that of Burke the
Sandhog, brings its just rewards.What further adventures awaits the Blue Beetle in
his one man Crusaders crime. Thisquestion will be answered in the next episode
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of The Blue Beetle. The BlueBeetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in
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Mystery Men Comics Magazine and The BlueBeetle Magazine. The Blue Beetle is on
the air twice a week on thissame station. Consult the broadcast schedule in
your local newspapers, and don't forgetto listen in to The Blue Beetle. D
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