Blue Beetle #2 [Direct]
(July 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
1986-03-18
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #26.
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
S-4796
First Line of Dialogue or Text
In final conflagration with Firefist the Incendiary Man!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Firefist [Lyle Byrnes]
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This City's Not for Burning! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
S-4788
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Firefist [Lyle Byrnes] (Origin); Frank (firefighter); Jeremiah Duncan; Melody Case; Conrad Carapax; Lt. Max Fisher; Murray Takamoto; Angela Revere; Dombrowski (firefighter); Doctor Alchemy [Alvin Desmond] (unnamed, not in costume)
Synopsis
Blue Beetle discovers the secret to Firefist's power and stops him, but not after he's burned down the Chicago Firefighter's Museum.
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Indexer Notes

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

[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 / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis (credited); Paris Cullins
Pencils
M. C. Anderson (signed)
Inks
M. C. Anderson (signed)
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4801
Characters
Blue Beetle [Dan Garret]

Indexer Notes

Editorial and interview with Paris Cullins; most of the second page is an illustration of the original Blue Beetle.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["In final conflagration with Firefist the Incendiary Man!"]
    Blue Beetle
  2. 1. This City's Not for Burning!
    Blue Beetle
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
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  • Chris Boyko
  • Peter Croome
  • Dave Marchand
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
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