Blue Beetle #9 [Direct]
(February 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
1986-10-21
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 #33.
This issue has variants:

[Hero Go Home] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; President Reagan (photo in newspaper)
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Indexer Notes

Legends Chapter 11 also on the cover.

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Timepiece! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Len Wein
Pencils
Paris Cullins
Inks
Dell Barras
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
G-2839
Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Ted Kord]; Chronos [David Clinton]; Angela Revere; Cassandra Sharp (amateur geologist); Melody Case; President Reagan; Gweneth Tate (TV news announcer); G. Gordon Godfrey; Murray Takamoto; Curt Calhoun; Lt. Max Fisher; Detective Frank Holt; Conrad Carapax
Synopsis
G. Gordon Godfrey continues to spread his propaganda against Super Heroes. President Reagan signs an order outlawing all Super Heroes. Blue Beetle must decide if he will follow the new law, or break it when Angela Revere's uncle, the Super Villain Chronos, begins his new plans.
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Indexer Notes

This is Chapter 11 of the Legends storyline that ran thru most DC books at the time.

Superman's Other Creators (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Dick Giordano
Pencils
? (photo)
Inks
? (photo)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Jerry Ordway (photo)
Synopsis
Dick Giordano writes about various creators who have worked on Superman over the years, including Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway who will be taking over one of the Superman titles.

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

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

Script
Len Wein
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2591
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [Hero Go Home]
    Blue Beetle
  2. 1. Timepiece!
    Blue Beetle
  3. 2. Superman's Other Creators
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Beetle's Nest
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  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Stangas
  • Jim Van Dore
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