Blue Beetle #1 [Direct]
(June 1986)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-02-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #25.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paris Cullins (signed)
Inks
Bruce Patterson (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
C-671
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Watch out, world!!! The Beetle is back...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]
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Out from the Ashes! (Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
S-4771
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord] (Origin recap); Firefist [Lyle Byrnes]; Dombrowski (firefighter); Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (Flashback); Jarvis Kord (Flashback); Angela Revere; Jeremiah Duncan; Melody Case; Conrad Carapax; Murray Takamoto; Lt. Max Fisher; Detective Frank Holt; Doctor Alchemy [Albert Desmond] (unnamed, not in costume, cameo)
Synopsis
Blue Beetle comes out of retirement and his first case is against the arsonist Firefist. After Firefist escapes their first encounter he burns down a firehouse. In the battle between Beetle and Firefist, Beetle is trapped in the burning firehouse.
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Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story continues in the next issue.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Blue Beetle / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis (credited)
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4785
Synopsis
Information on various creators on this title.

Indexer Notes

Editorial, no letters.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Watch out, world!!! The Beetle is back..."]
    Blue Beetle
  2. 1. Out from the Ashes!
    Blue Beetle
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
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