"Reaping down upon the underworld to smash ganglands comes a friend of the unfortunate an enemy of criminals, the mysterious all powerful character who is a problem to the police. A crusader for law, in reality Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue beetle he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of impenetrable blue chain armour flexible as silk but stronger than steel."

Numerous fires of suspicious nature have stirred the civil authorities to a point where a concerted drive is underway to discover who and what is at the back of this unprecedented wave of mysterious conflagrations. As the city’s fire inspection department become obsolete is the increase of destructive fires in abandoned factories and old law tenements due to coincidence or is an organized campaign of wholesale arson being engineered by a mastermind?