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: "Havoc is... the Hybrid"
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 #11 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Legends #6; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #10; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Angela Revere (last appearance in Blue Beetle #10; next appearance in Blue Beetle #14)
• Curt Calhoun (last appearance in Blue Beetle #9; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #9; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #9; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)

Villain(s)

• Mento (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Hybrid (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Gorgon (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Harpi (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Pterodon (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Behemoth (first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Scirocco (last appearance in Blue Beetle #9; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Touch-n-Go (last appearance in Blue Beetle #10; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Two kidnappers (employed by Mento; no further appearances)
• Two jewel thieves (no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Teen Titans (last appearance in Legends #6; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Nightwing (last appearance in Secret Origins #13; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Wonder Girl (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Cyborg (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Changeling (last appearance in Legends #6; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Starfire (last appearance in Secret Origins #13; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)
• Jericho (last appearance in Action Comics #584; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)

Other Character(s)

• Ralph (Steve Dayton's assistant; next appearance in Blue Beetle #12)

Comments:
This story continues in Blue Beetle #12.

Synopsis:
Ted Kord returns to his office after capturing a gang of jewelry store thieves. In the metallurgy lab Ted, Murray Takamoto, and Curt Calhoun finish perfecting a new promethium alloy. Unknown to them, Steve Dayton is watching the procedure and causes the liquid metal to be poured onto Curt.

The scientist survives and is rushed to the hospital. However, Dayton's agents hijack the ambulance and bring it to New York. Blue Beetle follows and is attacked by Dayton's team the Hybrid. They knock the Beetle's Bug from the sky, then the Teen Titans join the fight.