Comic Title: Blue Beetle #23
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: April 1988
On Sale Date: December 15, 1987 Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #47

Shipping Date December 15, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131

Newsstand Date January 7, 1988
Source: Amazing Heroes, #131

Copyright Date December 15, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "Don't Get Mad, Get Even"
Pages: 22

Feature(s):
Blue Beetle (Ted Kord Post-Crisis)

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Daniel Bulanadi
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Reprinted In:
Showcase Presents:Blue Beetle TPB (2015)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Justice League International #12; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #21; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)
• Angela Revere (last appearance in Blue Beetle #21; no further appearances)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Millennium #2; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)

Villain(s)

• Carapax (last appearance in Blue Beetle #15; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)
• Madmen (Farley Fleeter named; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Hawk and Dove #18)

Other Character(s)

• Thomas Kord (Ted's father; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)
• Fred Adkins (a police officer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story continues in part in Blue Beetle #24.

Synopsis:
Blue Beetle battles the Madmen. During the fight, he is scratched by their leader. After the crooks are defeated, he returns to the office at Kord Industries. Ted then begins to see people in Madmen makeup. He deduces that the scratch was drugged. With the help of Max Fisher, he confronts Madman Farley Fleeter in his jail cell. He pretends to drug Fleeter so that the crook will reveal where the antidote is located. The plan works, and the drug's effect is counteracted. When he gets back to the office, Ted finds his father waiting for him and claiming to be taking back the company.