tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post1868027650940057295..comments2024-03-27T13:51:16.021-04:00Comments on Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun!: Fun Fifty of 2008: Part 2 of 5Bullyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11708103213119467419noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16823651.post-59906973083260477892009-01-09T00:13:00.000-05:002009-01-09T00:13:00.000-05:00Greetings, most informative and amiable bovine! Fo...Greetings, most informative and amiable bovine! For the record, in general in the "golden age of radio," heroes who landed their own wireless gig came from newspaper comics, not funnybooks (Superman being the notable exception, and only partial since he was "a copyrighted feature" also appearing in papers, and the insane Pep ads for those swell comic buttons put him company with the Sunday supplement crowd). So, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Dick Tracy, Mark Trail, Mandrake the Magician, Jungle Jim, and plenty more dominated the airwaves; even Batman and Robin had to be content with their recurring guest spots on Superman's show, never getting beyond audition shows (the radio term for what is now called a "pilot"). <BR/><BR/>In general, there isn't a lot of information on the Blue Beetle series. At the time, Hollywood was in fact far from the entertainment capital when it came to the airwaves, with New York and Chicago outproducing them even (due to problems in the "round robin" way shows were relayed along telephone wires, thus making it more expensive to send a show from Hollywood or any other Western station east, as opposed to the other way around), to say nothing of one Detroit station WXYZ (who gave the world the Lone Ranger and Tonto, Yukon King and Sgt. Preston, and the Green Hornet and Kato.) Anyway, Blue Beetle came from New York.<BR/><BR/>Dan/Blue Beetle was played Frank Lovejoy, who had also played an episodic role on "Superman" in 1938, as a steadfast steamship captain in a tale of arson in a mining company. He was one of radio's busiest actors, often playing tough guy cops but also doing a lot of dramatic narration (especially in wartime shows), later migrating to Hollywood and such films as "I Was a Communist for the FBI" (in the lead role) and "House of Wax."Andrew Lealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04536423892525694724noreply@blogger.com