Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Blue Beetle TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2015
On Sale Date: January 28, 2015 Direct Market Date January 28, 2015
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Direct Market Date January 28, 2015
Source: Previews, #313

Cover Price: $19.99
Page Count: 584

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Timepiece"
Pages: 22

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

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

Reprinted From:
Blue Beetle #9 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Legends #2; next appearance in Legends #4)

Supporting Character(s)

• Curt Calhoun (last appearance in Blue Beetle #8; next appearance in Blue Beetle #11)
• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #8; next appearance in Blue Beetle #10)
• Angela Revere (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #10)
• Murray Takamoto (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #11)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #11)

Villain(s)

• Chronos (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Legends #4)
• Glorious Godfrey (last appearance in Fury of Firestorm #56; next appearance in Legends #4)
• Carapax (Conrad Carapax; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• A gang of cyberpunks (no further appearances)
• Chronos's henchmen (both die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Gwyneth Tate (last appearance in Cosmic Boy #1; next appearance in Fury of Firestorm #62)
• Scirocco (as Cassandra Sharp; next appearance in Blue Beetle #11)
• Ronald Reagan (last appearance in Legends #3; next appearance in Legends #5)
• Frank (a police detective; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Atom (in flashback)

Comments:
This issue is labeled: "Legends Cross-Over Chapter 11".

This story continues in Legends #4.

Synopsis:
After defeating a gang of cyberpunks, Blue Beetle finds himself the target of anti-hero sentiment from the public. The situation is a result of G. Gordon Godfrey's campaign against super-heroes that has produced a presidential edict prohibiting super-heroes from operating in public.

Blue Beetle resumes his identity as Ted Kord and supervises the development of a new metal armor. After the experiment fails, he returns to the office and learns that Angela Revere is missing. He checks out her house where he finds that she has been paralyzed by her uncle Chronos. Angela admits that she has been stealing equipment from Ted, and now her uncle is using the equipment for criminal purposes. Ted decides to risk disobeying the presidential order by pursuing Chronos as the Blue Beetle.