([February] 2011)

DC, 2011 Series
Published in English (United States) United States
 
Price
17.99 USD; 20.99 CAD
Pages
172
On-sale Date
2010-12-22
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
ISBN
978-1-4012-2897-2 Search at WorldCat
Barcode
9781401228972 51799
Editing
Rachel Gluckstern (credited) (editor - original series); Michael Siglain (credited) (editor - original series); Harvey Richards (credited) (assistant editor - original series); Bob Harras (credited) (group editor - collected editions); Sean Mackiewicz (credited) (editor)
Color
Color
Dimensions
Standard Modern Age U. S.
Binding
Softcover
Publishing Format
Collected Edition

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Blue Beetle / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Inks
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Colors
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; KDRA
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Blue Beetle / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)
Inks
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)
Colors
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Traci Thirteen
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Black Magic Woman (Table of Contents: 2)

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

Script
Will Pfeifer (credited)
Pencils
David Baldeón (credited)
Inks
Steve Bird (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Travis Lanham (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Traci Thirteen; Paco; Hector; Nadia; Mr. Tolbert; Boswell
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Blue Beetle / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)
Inks
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)
Colors
Rafael Albuquerque (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Brutus
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Brutus (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
Will Pfeifer (credited)
Pencils
David Baldeón (credited)
Inks
Steve Bird (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Steve Wands (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (flashback); Brenda; Paco; Hector; Nadia; Peacemaker [Christopher Smith]; Dani Garrett; Dr. Mephistopheles (villain in flashback); Brutus (dog that changes into monster)
Synopsis
Dr. Mephistopheles disappeared one night in the 1940's after battling the original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett. Now he's returned, and he's brought his monster with him.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Blue Beetle / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Inks
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Colors
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; KDRA
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Only Change Endures, Part One of Two (Table of Contents: 6)

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

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Carlo Barberi (credited)
Inks
Jacob Eguren (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Traci Thirteen; Brenda Delveccio; Paco Ortiz; Hector; Nadia; Bianca Reyes; Mrs. Ortiz; Soledad Ortiz; Scott; Mateo; Squid Gang (villains); Catalyst (villain); Masked Marauder [Count Von Steuben] (villain); Firefist, the Incendiary Man [Lyle Byrnes] (villain); Madmen (villains); Carapax (villain); KDRA [The Khali-Da Revolutionary Army (first appearance; villains); Djo-Mek (first appearance; villain); Djo-Sut (first appearance; villain); Djo-Zha (first appearance; villain); Khaji-Ro (first appearance; villain); Khaji-Tal (first appearance; villain)]
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Blue Beetle / cover reprint (on interior page) / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Inks
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)
Colors
Rafael Albuquerque (credited, signed)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]
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Only Change Endures, Part 2 of 2 (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Carlo Barberi (credited)
Inks
Jacob Eguren (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Travis Lanham (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (hallucination); Blue Beetle [Ted Kord] (hologram); Traci Thirteen; Brenda Delveccio; Paco Ortiz; Hector; Nadia (death); Peacemaker [Christopher Smith]; Alberto Reyes; Bianca Reyes; Milagro Reyes; Green Lantern [Guy Gardner] (cameo); DEO (cameo); KDRA [The Khali-Da Revolutionary Army (villains); Djo-Dje (villain); Djo-Mek (villain); Djo-Sut (villain); Djo-Zha (villain); Khaji-Eq (villain); Khaji-Ro (villain); Khaji-Tal (villain)]
Synopsis
Jaime stops the KDRA, but one of his friends pays the ultimate price.
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Armor-Plated, Part 1 of 3: Golden Child (Table of Contents: 9)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Norm Rapmund (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Brenda Delveccio; Paco Ortiz; THINKO!; Alan Von Neumann, Jr.; Unimate; Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (cameo); Blue Beetle [Ted Kord] (cameo)
Synopsis
While Blue Beetle fights a giant robot calling itself THINKO!, Brenda discovers that another robot going by the same name attacked El Paso in 1949. After Jaime puts down the robot, he, Brenda, and Paco visit the son of the inventor of THINKO! in prison, but he denies any involvement, particularly since he designed the much more advanced Unimate. Later Paco and Jaime are shocked to be confronted by Unimate.
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Armor-Plated, Part 2 of 3: Silver Spoon (Table of Contents: 10)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Norm Rapmund (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Unimate; Alan Von Neumann, Jr.; Maria Boole; Paco Ortiz; Bianca Reyes; Alberto Reyes; Milagro Reyes; Brenda Delveccio
Synopsis
Blue Beetle tricks the Unimate robots into fighting each other until they are all out of commission. Later, Paco follows up on the lead on Maria Boole, the daughter of Unimate's creator, and finds Alan Von Neumann being held captive by her. Realizing that Paco is missing, Brenda and Jaime head after him and find that Maria may be more than they expected.
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Armor-Plated, Part 3 of 3: Thoroughly Modern Maria (Table of Contents: 11)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Sandra Hope (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Maria Boole; Brenda Delveccio; Paco Ortiz; Alan Von Neumann, Jr.; Black Beetle
Synopsis
Maria reveals that she is not Von Neumann's biological daughter, but rather a cyborg with human emotions that he created. Maria kidnapped her creator to try to force him to remove those emotions. When Beetle tries to protect Von Neumann, Maria activates a slew of robots to fight him, but he battles through and deactivates the cyborg. But just before leaving Maria's laboratory, Jaime is surprised by the arrival of the Black Beetle, who vanishes with Maria's body.
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Black and Blue, Part 1 of 2 (Table of Contents: 12)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Norm Rapmund (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Parasite [Rudy Jones] (cameo); Brenda Delveccio; Paco Ortiz; Bianca Reyes; Alberto Reyes; Milagro Reyes; Black Beetle
Synopsis
On an outing to Texas Big Bend National Park with friends and family, Jaime -- who is struggling to control a more and more bloodthirsty scarab -- encounters Black Beetle for the first time.
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Black and Blue, Part 2 of 2 (Table of Contents: 13)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Norm Rapmund (credited); Mike Norton (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Travis Lanham (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Black Beetle; Bianca Reyes; Alberto Reyes; Milagro Reyes; Paco Ortiz; Brenda Delvecchio; Booster Gold (doll); Blue Beetle [Ted Kord] (doll)
Synopsis
Thanks to the quick thinking of Paco, Jaime immobilizes the Black Beetle -- who claims to be a future version of Jaime -- after a brief fight. But because the villain had injured Milagro, Jaime and his friends and family must allow the villain to go free in order to get the young girl to a hospital.
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The Beginning of the End (Table of Contents: 14)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Mike Norton (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
John J. Hill (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Traci Thirteen; Paco Ortiz; Brenda Delvecchio; Bianca Reyes; Alberto Reyes; Unimates (flashback); Black Beetle (flashback); Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett] (flashback); Praying Mantis Man (flashback); Peacemaker [Christopher Smith]
Synopsis
Blue Beetle and his friends go to the archaeological site where Dan Garrett first discovered the scarab in order to find out why the scarab has become so bloodthirsty. After Jaime makes contact with the Reach technology, the scarab's original programming re-asserts itself and takes control of Jaime in order to finally conquer Earth.
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The End of the End (Table of Contents: 15)

Blue Beetle / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Lilah Sturges (credited as Matthew Sturges)
Pencils
Mike Norton (credited)
Inks
Mike Norton (credited)
Colors
Guy Major (credited)
Letters
Sal Cipriano (credited)

Genre
superhero
Characters
Blue Beetle [Jaime Reyes]; Peacemaker [Christopher Smith]; Traci Thirteen; Paco Ortiz; Brenda Delvecchio; Milagro Reyes
Synopsis
With Jaime now under the complete control of the scarab, Peacemaker nukes the Reach, even as the scarab forces Blue Beetle to defend it. But once the Reach is destroyed, Jaime, safe thanks to Traci, emerges from the rubble.
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  2. 1. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  3. 2. Black Magic Woman
    Blue Beetle
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  5. 4. Brutus
    Blue Beetle
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  7. 6. Only Change Endures, Part One of Two
    Blue Beetle
  8. 7. [no title indexed]
    Blue Beetle
  9. 8. Only Change Endures, Part 2 of 2
    Blue Beetle
  10. 9. Armor-Plated, Part 1 of 3: Golden Child
    Blue Beetle
  11. 10. Armor-Plated, Part 2 of 3: Silver Spoon
    Blue Beetle
  12. 11. Armor-Plated, Part 3 of 3: Thoroughly Modern Maria
    Blue Beetle
  13. 12. Black and Blue, Part 1 of 2
    Blue Beetle
  14. 13. Black and Blue, Part 2 of 2
    Blue Beetle
  15. 14. The Beginning of the End
    Blue Beetle
  16. 15. The End of the End
    Blue Beetle
This issue was modified by
  • Stanley Ho
  • Bob Hughes
  • Jim Van Dore