Comic Title: Blue Beetle #9
Publisher: DC (DC Comics Inc.)
Address: 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1987
On Sale Date: November 13, 1986 Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Newsstand Date November 13, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: DC Releases, #33

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: Amazing Heroes, #103

Shipping Date October 21, 1986
Source: Comics Journal, #111

Copyright Date October 21, 1986
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1986
DC publication dates beyond April 1981 listed by the LoC
represent shipping dates NOT newsstand sale dates

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.75
Page Count: 32
Editor: Karen Berger

Title: "Timepiece"
Pages: 22

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

Crossover Event:
Legends

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Paris Cullins
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 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.