Blue Beetle was utterly transformed by Steve Ditko into a sleek modern hero who became, as all Ditko heroes do eventually if not initially, a vehicle for Ditko's distinctive politics. The series ran five issues, with a sixth scheduled and advertised in the back the final December 1967 issue of Judomaster. The collapse of the "Action Hero" line stopped that though. That sixth issue of Blue Beetle would have to wait several more years before finally seeing print, in the pages of 1974's double…
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