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Fox Features syndication. “Death Rides On Horseback” Part one. Commercials added locally. A masked horseman has shot six policemen. The Blue Beetle “borrows” a horse and gives chase. A girl reporter is kidnapped; the Blue Beetle is captured and held in a subterranean cell below the city reservoir and about to be drowned. 15 minutes.
Part two. The head of the gang commits suicide; the Blue Beetle frees the beautiful reporter for the Chronicle. 15 minutes.
(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. –OTRR)
