Joan Mason was an American crime reporter who, at different periods of her career, wrote for The Bulletin, Daily Blade, New York Chronicle, and Daily Planet. She was the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Dan Garret, a.k.a. Blue Beetle. Her father was an admiral in the Navy. While she never figured out her love interest was secretly the Blue Beetle, she was fairly smart and capable, even coming up with plans on how to capture criminals such as the Sinister Sphinx. Aside from appearing in Blue Beetle stories, she had her own feature during the mid-1940s.
Creators/Key Contributors Charles Nicholas, Larry Antonette(?)
First Appearance Blue Beetle #2 (May-June 1940) (possibly) / Blue Beetle #4 & Big 3 #1 (definitively) (both issues came out in Fall 1940)
First Publisher Fox Feature Syndicate [CB+] [DCM] [GCD]
Appearance List Blue Beetle vol. 1 #4-5 (possibly #2 but the character went unnamed), 7-11, 13, 31-42, 44-48, 51, 53, 55, 57-60, vol. 3 #13-15, 18, 22, 24-25, vol. 4 #18, 20-21, Big 3 #1-4, All Great Comics, All Top Comics #8, Book of All-Comics, Everybody’s Comics (unnumbered), vol. 2 #1, Mystery Men Comics #15, 26, 28, Phantom Lady #13, Zoot Comics #7, Space Adventures #13-14, Tegra #1
Description Joan Mason was an American crime reporter who, at different periods of her career, wrote for The Bulletin, Daily Blade, New York Chronicle, and Daily Planet. She was the on-again, off-again girlfriend of Dan Garret, a.k.a. Blue Beetle. Her father was an admiral in the Navy. While she never figured out her love interest was secretly the Blue Beetle, she was fairly smart and capable, even coming up with plans on how to capture criminals such as the Sinister Sphinx. Aside from appearing in Blue Beetle stories, she had her own feature during the mid-1940s.
