Comic Title: Blue Beetle #19
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: December 1987
On Sale Date: September 8, 1987 Newsstand Date September 8, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #43

Newsstand Date September 8, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 18, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #124

Shipping Date August 18, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Copyright Date July 27, 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 August 18, 1987
Source: Comic Shop News, #8

Cover Price: $1.00
Page Count: 32
Editor: Dennis J. O'Neil

Title: "A Matter of Animus"
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 Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Booster Gold #22)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Blue Beetle #21)
• Garrison Slate (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; no further appearances)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #21)
• Jeremiah Duncan (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Blue Beetle #20)

Villain(s)

• Catalyst (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Blue Beetle #20)
• Doctor Animus (Rose Beryl; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Doctor Klaus Cornelius (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Blue Beetle #20)
• Cinq (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; no further appearances)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Alfy Twidgett (Alfred W. Twidgett; first post-Crisis appearance; next appearance in Blue Beetle #21)
• Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett; as a corpse; last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; no further appearances)
• Belphegor (last appearance in Teen Titans Spotlight #11; next appearance in Justice League International #8)
• Fleur-de-Lis (a French super-hero and member of the Global Guardians; next appearance in Blue Beetle #20)

Other Character(s)

• A genetically engineered boy (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; no further appearances)
• Theodora Twidgett (name revealed; last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #21)

Comments:
This story continues in part from Blue Beetle #18.

Synopsis:
After the death of Dan Garrett, Garrison Slate and a team from S.T.A.R. Labs arrive on the scene to take custody of the genetically engineered boy. Blue Beetle allows them to leave, but later shows up in Slate's office for answers. Slate calls security forcing the Beetle to get his answers by hacking into the S.T.A.R. computer network.

The boy was an experiment created using the DNA of Dr. Rose Beryl and Dan Garrett. Dr. Beryl was believed dead, but a corpse recently turned up with the same DNA as the boy. Blue Beetle flies to California to continue his investigation.

His first stop is Animus Explorations, a company with the equipment to conduct Beryl's experiments. Beetle finds the office empty, then is attacked by the furniture. He is taken to Dr. Beryl who is not dead, but now wears robotic armor. She calls herself Doctor Animus. Her experiments have continued, and she is creating an army of humanoids to take over the world. The Blue Beetle stops her, and Beryl falls to her death. He retrieves as much data as he can from her laboratory before it is destroyed. Beetle then delivers the data to Slate to help the boy.