SUPERCUT: IT'S NOT THE SIGN OF THE BLUE BEETLE!

I assume that this one will get at least a little bigger over time.

It's the Sign of the...

Black Spider:

 

NOTES: MARCH 2025

Supercut Updates:

Fresh new Skeletons With Jobs and Looming Spectres of Death await ye.

Abandoned Ideas: 

I came very close to assembling a supercut of Women Kissing the Protagonist in the Last Panel While Their Father Looks Coyly On, but it would be way too labour-intensive to assemble. Plus probably a bit creepy to see all in one place.

Anti-Drug Propaganda:

Chic Carter investigates a dangerous drug ring after a college kid goes nuts and kills his friend... ON WEED. (Smash Comics 009, 1940)

Cops Shooting at Fleeing Suspects:

Coupla crooks running from the police get fired upon. (Smash Comics 010, 1940)

Dinosaurs:

Shock Gibson discovers a lost plateau full of dinosaurs, including this, the grodiest pterodactyl I have ever seen. I love it. (Speed Comics 005, 1940)

SUPERCUT: SKELETONS WITH JOBS

The Skeleton With a Job is a close cousin to the Looming Spectre of Death, only instead of merely lurking symbolically, they do a little task symbolically. I love them and they enhance every comic panel or splash page that they appear in.

COMMUNICATIONS:

Radio operator skeleton (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1941)

Telegraphy skeleton (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1941)

CRIME:

Gangster skeleton (Hit Comics 014, 1941)

Murderer skeleton (Mystery Men Comics 007, 1940)

Saboteur skeleton (Jumbo Comics 022, 1940)

MUSIC:

Conductor skeleton (Adventure Comics 068, 1941)

Violin skeleton (Feature Comics 035, 1940) 

SPORTS:

Football skeleton (Shield-Wizard Comics 002, 1940) 

Jockey skeleton (The Spirit Section, 29 December, 1940)

THEATRE: 

Puppeteer skeleton (Shield-Wizard Comics 002, 1940)

Stagehand skeleton, I think (Blue Beetle Comics v1 010, 1941) 

TRADES:

Not quite a skeleton but Blacksmith Skullhead can join the gang (Smash Comics 009, 1940)

TRANSPORT: 

Driving skeleton (The Funnies 047, 1940) 

 Pilot skeleton (Smash Comics 007, 1940)

Stagecoach skeleton (Adventure Comics 060, 1941) 

WAR:

Soldier skeleton (Crack Comics 006, 1940) 

Allied and Axis soldier skeletons (Smash Comics 007, 1940)

Sort of a generic ancient warrior skeleton (Smash Comics 012, 1940)

Roman-ish warrior skeleton (Smash Comics 014, 1940)

SUPERCUT: THE LOOMING SPECTRE OF DEATH

The looming spectre of a grinning, skeletal Death is an important storytelling device in comics, and here at the Curse of Skeleton Munroe we celebrate skeletons and their contributions to society, and so I present a small collection of looming Deaths that will surely grow large with time (issue numbers in hover text):

 

IT'S THE SIGN OF THE BLUE BEETLE!

What's that? 

The sign of who?

That's the guy.

And the greatest and most unhinged sign of the Blue Beetle of all:

(hover for issue numbers)