Comic Title: Blue Beetle #15
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: August 1987
On Sale Date: May 12, 1987 Newsstand Date May 12, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #39

Newsstand Date May 14, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #116

Shipping Date April 21, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #116

Newsstand Date May 14, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Copyright Date April 21, 1987
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1987
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Shipping Date April 21, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #696, #702

Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "In Combat with... Carapax"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Ross Andru
Inker: Dell Barras
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

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

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Captain Atom #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #16)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #16)
• Angela Revere (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Jeremiah Duncan (last appearance in Blue Beetle #10; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Garrison Slate (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Randall Truman (an employee of Kord Inc.; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)

Villain(s)

• Carapax (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #23)
• Catalyst (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Doctor Klaus Cornelius (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Cinq (last appearance in Blue Beetle #14; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Overthrow (next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)

Other Character(s)

• Roy (a security guard; no further appearances)
• Ms. Lester (a secretary; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Blue Beetle #14.

Synopsis:
Blue Beetle and Max Fisher face-off against Carapax on Pago Island. They take refuge inside the lab of Jarvis Kord, but Carapax follows them. Fisher destroys the lab with explosives, then he and Beetle make it outside to the Bug.

Carapax punches his way out of the demolished lab and fires on the Bug with missiles. Blue Beetle decides to retreat, but first he destroys the ship that could take his robotic opponent off the island. Carapax latches onto the Bug with a cable and climbs aboard. A battle ensues. Eventually Beetle is able to manuever the Bug to throw Carapax over the side. The robot sinks to the bottom of the ocean from which he cannot return.