Comic Title: Blue Beetle #18
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: November 1987
On Sale Date: August 11, 1987 Newsstand Date August 11, 1987
Source: DC Releases, #42

Newsstand Date August 11, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122

Shipping Date July 21, 1987
Source: Amazing Heroes, #122

Shipping Date July 21, 1987
Source: Focus, #1, Page BC

Copyright Date July 21, 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

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

Title: "...and Death Shall Have No Dominion"
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Len Wein
Artist: Paris Cullins
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 #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)

Guest Star(s)

• Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett; dies in this story; last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Millennium #2)
• Randall Truman (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #21)
• Jeremiah Duncan (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)
• Garrison Slate (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)

Villain(s)

• Catalyst (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)
• Doctor Klaus Cornelius (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)
• Cinq (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)

Other Character(s)

• A genetically engineered boy (last appearance in Blue Beetle #17; next appearance in Blue Beetle #19)
• Three unnamed scientists (no further appearances)
• Flannigan (a police officer; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued from Blue Beetle #17 and continues in part in Blue Beetle #19.

Synopsis:
The original Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, has returned. He calls out Ted Kord who faces his former friend in combat. Garrett has been possessed by his magic scarab and will not listen to Ted. A genetically engineered boy with telepathic abilities who has escaped from STAR Labs happens upon the scene. The boy is able to snap Garrett from the Scarab's control. In his resistance, Garrett is killed, and the Scarab is destroyed.