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: "If This Works, It'll Be a Miracle"
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 From:
Blue Beetle #21 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)

Guest Star(s)

• Mister Miracle (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #19; next appearance in Blue Beetle #23)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #19; no further appearances)
• Angela Revere (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #23)
• Randall Truman (last appearance in Blue Beetle #18; next appearance in Blue Beetle #24)
• Jeremiah Duncan (last appearance in Blue Beetle #20; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Overthrow (identity of Arnold Beck revealed; last appearance in Blue Beetle #20; no further appearances)
• Chronos (last appearance in Suicide Squad #4; next appearance in Blue Beetle #22)
• Doctor Klaus Cornelius (last appearance in Blue Beetle #20; next appearance in Blue Beetle #22)
• Manhunters (last appearance in Outsiders #28; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Grandmaster (last appearance in Millennium #5; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Associates of Klaus Cornelius (identified as steel makers, bankers, gun merchants, drug czars, and mafia men; next appearance in Blue Beetle #22)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Aquaman (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Batman (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Kilowog (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Floronic Man (last appearance in Millennium #6; next appearance in Millennium #7)
• Belphegor (last appearance in Blue Beetle #20; no further appearances)
• Alfy Twidgett (last appearance in Blue Beetle #19; no further appearances)
• Andre Chavard (head of Department Gamma of the French Secret Service; last appearance in Teen Titans Spotlight #11; no further appearances)
• Jan Haasan (first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)
• Rip Carter (rank given as General; first post-Crisis appearance; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Theodora Twidgett (last appearance in Blue Beetle #19; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Martian Manhunter (mistakenly depicted at the Green Lantern Citadel; see comment)
• Doctor Mist (referenced by Belphagor; said to have disappeared)
• Starfire (in flashback to New Teen Titans Annual #3)
• Godiva (in flashback to New Teen Titans Annual #3)

Comments:
This issue is labeled:"Millennium Week 6".

Jan of the Boy Commandos is reintroduced in this story. His last name is given as Haasan, while his pre-Crisis counterpart spells his name Jan Haasen.

This story mentions the escape of the Cuckoo with a reference to New Teen Titans #40. That story was delayed and published in New Teen Titans #44.

Martian Manhunter is depicted with other heroes at the Green Lantern Citadel. He could not have been present since he was in space battling Highmaster as shown in Millennium #6.

Synopsis:
After discovering that the Manhunters have assembled under the surface of the Earth, Blue Beetle returns to Kord Industries to retrieve an experimental Starprobe. With the help of Mister Miracle, he believes the device will allow the heroes to melt their way inside the Earth. Overthrow and a group of Manhunters are sent to stop the heroes. After briefly being knocked out, Beetle and Miracle defeat Overthrow and unmask him as Arnold Beck, a dock worker at Kord, Inc.