Comic Title: Blue Beetle #16
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: September 1987
On Sale Date: June 9, 1987 Newsstand Date June 9, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #40

Newsstand Date July 9, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #118
Date is misprinted 7/9 instead of 6/9

Shipping Date May 19, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #118
Date is misprinted 7/9 instead of 6/9

Newsstand Date June 9, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

Copyright Date May 19, 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 May 19, 1987
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #702, #704

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

Title: "Anywhere I Hang My Head Is Home"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Ross Andru
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 #7; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #15; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #15; next appearance in Blue Beetle #17)

Villain(s)

• The Skid Row Slasher (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Howard Bower (a homeless man; no further appearances)
• A police captain (no further appearances)
• Frank (a detective; no further appearances)
• Esther Kravitz (a homeless woman; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Blue Beetle chases a masked thief who trips over a sleeping homeless man. The crook drops a stolen vial, but is forced to run away to avoid being caught. He later returns for the vial and begins killing homeless people who fail to lead him to it. Blue Beetle tracks down the homeless man he met during the chase. The man still has the vial which contains an experimental lukemia cure. The killer attacks, but is defeated by the Blue Beetle. He explains that he needed the cure for himself because he was dying.