Blue Beetle #8 [Direct]
(January 1987)

DC, 1986 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1986-09-16
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Karen Berger (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #32.
This issue has variants:

You've Seen Him All Your Life ...But You've Never Really Known Him ...Until Now! (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Ed Buckley
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Henchman! (Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Dell Barras
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
G-2783
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; The Calculator [Noah Cuttler]; Ed Buckley; Doris Buckley; Katie Buckley; Rudy; Curt Calhoun; Frankie; Andy; Melody Case
Synopsis
Ed Buckley just got out of prison and is looking for a job so he can feed his family. When Kord Industries turn him down he returns to the only work he's ever known, being a henchman for a Super-Villain.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Beetle's Nest / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Karen Berger
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2574
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. You've Seen Him All Your Life ...But You've Never Really Known Him ...Until Now!
    Blue Beetle
  2. 1. Henchman!
    Blue Beetle
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Beetle's Nest
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  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Peter Croome
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Fawzy Partridge
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
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