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Weathing down upon the underworld as Max Ganglen comes an mysterious all-powerful character
who is a problem to the police for a considerable loss. In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrol
loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the blue people.
As the blue people, he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of intenetable blue chain armor.
Flexible as silk, but stronger than steel.
Today's episode of the Fox Feature, the Blue Beetle, is entitled Sabotage Incorporated.
Throughout the country, foreign spies and saboteurs are busy trying to prevent the shipment of
war munitions to countries with whom their native country is at war. Near your city is located
exploded and cooperated, one of the largest manufacturers of munitions in the country.
Every night, trainload of munitions leaves their factory for some secret destination.
As our story opens, Officer Manigan and Patroman Dan Garrett,
who is really the Blue Beetle, are investigating a mysterious telephone call
from Wentwood Beach Hall, President of Explosives Incorporated, who lives at the Monaco apart.
Well, here we are at a charge apartment, which is a fucking daddy.
That's no answer.
Well, let's break in the door.
Now, we better call the superintendent. You'll have a path key.
There's something wrong over here. Who are you?
I'm the superintendent of this building.
Oh, well, uh, we got a mysterious telephone call from Mr. Charles, but she didn't finish.
It was such a nature that we felt it necessary to make an investigation.
He doesn't answer his bell or our knocking.
Well, I have a pass key here. I'll unlock the door for you.
Uh, uh, something's holding the door shut.
Hey, come on, I will break it in.
No, no, no, wait.
I'll tell the phone the owner of the apartment house.
He'll, uh, well, we can't wait for that.
Just come on, Danny. Let's break in the door.
All right, here we go.
Uh, well, uh, well, there's nobody here.
Look at the bedroom there.
Okay, I have a Lord.
I hope nothing happened to Mr. Charles.
He's one of our best tenants.
Hey, Danny, look, here's Mr. Charles and he's...
What is it, Mike?
Hey, Danny, thanks, Charles.
Look, there, over his heart.
A woman.
Yeah, right through his pajamas.
That's $20,000, would it?
I bet.
No, no, it's a stab wound, man.
Mr. Charles, all right.
Is he dead?
Yeah.
Who could have done it?
That's what the police would like to know.
That's what we have to find out.
Miller, I don't see any weapons,
but for a night they call a...
Finn's still at home.
Don't care and have a look around the apartment.
Hadn't I better telephone the owner of the building?
Not yet.
And don't leave the apartment.
Yes, but who's the partner that joins this on the bedroom side?
Professor Vladimir Daniscus.
What is this?
I believe he lectures on anthropology.
As he, uh, live along,
he has a male secretary who lives with him, I believe.
Who lives on the other side?
Next to the living room.
Oh, that apartment is making it.
Did Mr. Charles live along?
Yes.
Apparently Mr. Charles was killed while he was phoning.
The receiver is still off the hook there,
and his body is lying in front of a telephone table.
Yes, it looks that way.
I can't find any sign of a gaggle or ice pick anywhere.
There's an electric ice box in the kitchen, so...
I don't think Mr. Charles would be needing an ice pick,
and soon, what about the windows?
There are lots.
Any fire escapes?
No.
It's a 14-story drop for the street on our side.
How many floors above this, Superintendent?
15.
Any other entrances to this apartment?
Only a service door in the kitchen.
Yeah, I look with that.
It's locked and bored of from the inside,
and there's no knob on the outside of the door.
Well, Mike, you better phone the car and then...
I'll just have a look around the apartment.
Then I'd like to question the professor and his secretary.
Maybe they can throw some light on this case.
OK.
Oh, good evening, professor.
Good evening.
What can I do for you?
This officer would like to ask you some questions.
There's been some trouble next door and the police are interested in getting some information.
Won't you come in, please?
Thanks.
Now, what is it you would like to know, officer?
I am sure I cannot be of any assistance to you.
Did you hear any commotion or unusual noise tonight in Mr. Charles' apartment?
Oh, nothing.
In fact, I've been so busy with my studies that I doubt if I would have heard any noise coming from anywhere.
When I am doing my research work, I concentrate very deeply.
Do you have any children, Professor?
No, no, no. I am not married.
Let's come there.
Do you use that in your research?
Oh, God.
That belongs to my secretary.
He is off tonight.
He bought it for his little boy.
It is a near-right party strong enough to what?
I mean, it has the appearance of a real gun, but it would be no good for hunting game other than small birds.
I assure you.
Here.
Have a look.
Yes.
Yes, I can see you're right.
I presume a BB shot from this air rifle would hardly have enough force behind it to kill a man.
Is a man?
Is someone big?
Yes, Professor.
Mr. Charles, your next door neighbor was murdered less than an hour ago.
You know, Danny, this case is very puzzling.
Very dark, but the blue beetles are going to starve the puzzle.
How?
I am going to revisit the Charles department alone.
Do a little private investigating.
Danny, what do you think is the fact of this murder?
Sabotage of some sort.
I'm positive it has something to do with a train of munitions and guns being shipped to Canada.
Be careful, Danny boy.
If your suspicions are correct, you'll run into a ruthless gang of murderers.
I know that.
But the blue beetle can handle them.
Have you everything you need?
Mm-hmm.
This blue beetle chain armor and mask.
My magic ray and spotlight are all I'll need tonight.
I'm traveling light because I've got to travel fast.
The blue beetle is going to starve the murder and strike a blow or humanity.
Well, here's Mr. Charles' bedroom.
The body's been removed.
Nothing else has been disturbed in that bedroom here.
A picture on the wall there, facing a spot where Charles was sitting when he was killed.
It doesn't hang straight.
I don't have a look at you, I don't know what I mean.
A hole in the wall, back of the picture.
Just large enough for a rifle barrel and to hear conversation.
Oh.
Here.
Here is the railroad map.
The Venetian strain will approach a bridge to Canada over the board, along this track here.
Yeah.
Now, our major plan is to blow up the bridge as the Venetian strain is passing over.
But before some reason, our men are unable to place the charge of explosives under the bridge.
Our alternate plan is to wreck the train and block the entrance in the entire road,
as well as destroy the Venetians aboard the train.
Well, how will we know in advance which plan to follow?
No, I'm expecting a call. Any minute for my lead, there's a professional near the border.
Then as soon as you get word, I'll be on my way.
Yes.
Your job is to take care of any guards at the American side of the bridge.
Yes, I understand.
This will take care of them.
Oh, the air crystal.
Let's use glass pellets filled with soft heating gas.
Yes.
It makes very little noise.
Whoever is shot with it remains unconscious for a long, long time.
Oh, boy.
Now, the two planes tuned up and waiting outside the airfield.
You take one of them.
All right.
And you're sure no one suspect our plot?
Possibly.
Possibly.
I liquidated Charles before he could telephone the police.
Well, what about money?
Here.
Here's a thousand dollars for expensive.
Okay.
When the job is done, there'll be plenty more where this came from.
Good.
Hello?
Yes?
You what?
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, we're ready at the send.
Oh, wait.
Here's the alcohol now.
Just a minute.
I'll ask him.
Well, what about it, Igor?
The munition train is low, then we'll pull out for Canada and give it to me.
Hello.
Renaldo.
Igor informs me that the train will pull out in ten minutes.
Yes, all right.
Everything is moving smoothly.
We'll be with you soon.
Goodbye.
What's wrong?
Where?
I can't imagine what that could be.
Yes, the Blue Beetle.
And he's going to nip you.
Have an ingenious matter of entering Mr. Blue Beetle.
Did you buy any chance to fly to my window?
And just what do you want?
I overheard your whole plot from the next apartment.
And crawled along the ledge outside the window.
Can't you know everything?
I'm going to turn you over to the police.
All of you.
Get away from that phone professor.
Or I'll burn you with my magic ring.
Oh, no, you won't.
Blue Beetle, because you won't be able to.
Go down that gun.
Blue Beetle.
Oh.
There.
Battle fix, Mr. Blue Beetle.
Well, let us get out of here.
Such gases making me sick.
And what about the Blue Beetle?
You tie him up and take him down to the plate yard
and put him aboard the munition frame.
The Blue Beetle will have a rude awakening sometime
in the early morning hours.
What will happen to the Blue Beetle now?
How soon will he recover from the effects
of the suffocating gas?
Can he save the shipment of munitions
to Canada from destruction?
Which plan will the saboteurs put into effect?
These questions will be answered in the next episode
of the Blue Beetle.
The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box feature,
appearing in Mystery Men comics magazine,
and The Blue Beetle magazine.
The Blue Beetle is on the air,
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And that's the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers.
And don't forget to listen in to
the official news that this is our final news.
And this is the last episode of the Blue Beetle.
The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box feature,
appearing in Mystery Men Comics magazine,
and the Blue Beetle magazine.
The Blue Beetle is on the air,
All is an end though, a blow to be told.
The blue beetles.
Weeping down upon the underworld,
a smashed ganglion,
come,
and this mysterious,
all-powerful character
who is a problem
to the police
for a coup smitter fall off.
In reality,
Sam Garrett,
a rookie patrol,
loved by everyone,
but suspected by none,
are being the blue beetles.
As the blue beetles,
he hides behind a strange mask
and a suit of incendentable blue-chain armor,
flexible as suit,
but stronger than steel.
Today's episode
of the Fox Feature,
the blue beetles,
is the second part
of a story entitled,
Sabotage Incorporated.
In the previous episode,
went with three Charles,
president of Explosive Incorporated,
has been stabbed to death,
apparently with a knife fix,
as he was poning the police
about a shipment of munitions.
Investigation discloses
no murder weapon,
and no clues to the killer.
All doors and windows
of the Charles apartment
were securely locked
and bolted from the inside.
A later secret investigation
by Dan Garrett,
as the blue beetles,
discloses that the occupants
of an adjoining apartment,
a professor Dennis Kew
and his male secretary,
are part of a Sabotage ring,
whose purpose
is to destroy a clean load
of explosives
and warm munitions
as its passes
over the rocky gorge bridge
from the United States
to Canada.
As the blue beetles confronts them,
he is rendered unconscious
by a suffocating gas,
shot from an air pistol,
by a young girl named Vicki,
one of the conspirators.
As the episode ends,
the conspirators plan to dispose
of the blue beetles
by dumping his bound
and unconscious body
of rather munitions'
trains which is to be destroyed.
As our story opens today,
Vicki is on her way
in a private plane
to Rosno near the Canadian border,
who supervise operations
at the bridge.
The professor,
and Igor,
are to follow
as soon as they dispose
of the blue beetles.
They are professor
here, here,
at the freak here.
If I was not mistaken,
dust the train
with the load of guns
and explosives aboard.
Yes, it's moving there.
We'll have to hurry.
Give me a hand,
that will be to here.
Yes.
All right.
There you go.
Oh, he´s heavy.
There it is,
ten cannons.
Oh, no.
Here comes an empty enormous難.
Yes. We show them in one.
Yes.
Yes.
Three liveres.
Ah, very arms.
110,
you are rehab district
with a clean load of
the loads to stay long.
Offer the home.
Oh, hello, Dr. France, how did you end on it?
No, no, not for some time.
Have you got any idea what he might be?
He said something about working on this expulsion.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's when they taught.
But, hey, jealum, what's that mic in your hand?
A present for your young sick?
Oh, all right.
That's an air rifle.
I followed me apartment next to where Charles was killed.
Oh, I've signed anything else?
Well, nothing much except this.
Any idea what it might be, Dr.?
It's an aluminum mold of some sort.
Yeah, for American detonators or something,
but what would the befresser be?
Wait, wait, I've got it.
He got what?
The weapon that killed Mr. Charles.
What do you mean, Dr?
That aluminum mold was filled with water
and placed in an electric refrigerator.
The water froze into little sharp pointed icicles
about the size of an ice-pick blade.
Yeah, I can see that.
Then there were shots from that air rifle at the victim.
Even though the air rifle looked innocent enough,
it is a particular type with sufficient air propulsion
to make those needle-pointed icicles penetrate
deep into the victim's body where they melted leading no trace.
What the?
How could the murderer get to him?
That the water and windows was locked and welded from the inside.
The murderers probably bought a small hole
through the wall and shot him from their apartment.
That's it. That's what happened.
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Well done, I got to get down to hip quarters now and report.
Where else am I?
That was the other train.
I wonder where it is.
Where are you headed for?
Canada.
But you ain't going.
Is this train loaded with munitions?
That's for you.
I'm the blue people.
Yeah.
And I have told you that this is your water.
You're getting off from the water.
All right.
Wait. Help me out of here.
I want the water.
You're on your level.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We carry passengers.
You're no player.
I don't want you.
Shit.
I'll be honest with you.
Fuck you.
Sit on my back right up.
I'm going to press for the first time.
Not to get to a fool somewhere and warm the authorities to flag that train.
Hey, who's down there?
The blue people.
Have you got a phone?
Is there a blue one?
And we ain't got a phone.
Where's the nearest telephone?
Five miles down the road.
Jet hunking is placed.
Thanks.
But he ain't home.
Where can I get a car?
And the trolleys don't run out this far.
They get a bus in the morning.
Great.
I can't wait.
And how far is the border?
About 20 miles.
Just to get that in a hurry.
Who are you running away from?
Not running away.
I'm trying to prevent a crime.
Well, I could drive you out to Rosmo in the morning.
Where's the nearest airport?
Rosmo.
Ten miles.
Drive me to the airport tonight.
And you'll be a hero in the morning.
So when you'll be, if you live through my breath,
I'll be down soon as you get the mooch on into...
Mr. Rogeet in.
I got the flag that's playing down there.
Of course you reach the bridge.
Can't make it. Can't break our dreams for something less than a mile.
Thanks to Wes. Give me that red lantern.
What do you do to go?
They love to find courage. You can't wait this red lantern if I go down.
Well, here I go.
There are more to the bridge.
I am.
Yeah, five more miles, and our job will be done.
And glad I'll be. In 30 years of railroad, this is the toughest job I've ever had.
All in 50 cars have exposed into the world equipped with the Canada
and eat my idea of a soft snack.
Yeah, those tellin' when you may run into an open switch or a pile of ties on the tracks.
As plenty of fire aspires would like to rick a train load like this.
Hey, listen to that phrase.
Let's be something important to bring that guy out on a stormy night like this.
Hey, there's no lights in the switch house. You better throw it out.
Three signals up.
Yeah, but you never can tell.
Well, keep an eye out on your side as we reach the switch to the Rogers first track.
Okay.
Look there. Where?
Up there in the sky.
Yes.
Well, it's the cruise of light's dear place.
Yeah, but look underneath it.
Well, I'll be.
There's a red light forward and swinging from side to side.
Hey, maybe he's signalin' us to stop.
So, here's a guy in a parachute that's dropped out on the plane.
And he's waving the red light.
That's strange.
Well, there's the bridge right ahead.
Maybe something broke with the bridge.
All the signal lights have been green.
Except the red light on the plane.
Well, here goes the brake.
I hope I can bring this train or a stop on the slipway rail.
Well, so long will be the land.
Thanks a million.
Okay.
Give my regards to your neighbors across the border.
Tell them we Americans are glad we both speak the same language.
In more ways than one.
And so the Blue Beetle prevented a frightful tragedy
and through sheer nerve outwitted a clever band of foreign saboteurs and murderers.
The moral of this story is that their never will be the perfect crime.
Crimes like the murder of Mr. Charles, no matter how strangely and cleverly done,
will always be found out and the guilty punished.
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