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: "The Phantom of Pago Island"
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 #14 (1987)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #12; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Murray Takamoto (last appearance in Blue Beetle #12; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Angela Revere (last appearance in Blue Beetle #11; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Garrison Slate (last appearance in Blue Beetle #12; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)

Villain(s)

• Carapax (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Catalyst (next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Doctor Klaus Cornelius (next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)
• Cinq (Cornelius's employee; next appearance in Blue Beetle #15)

Guest Appearance(s)

• Teen Titans (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Flash #1)
• Nightwing (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Flash #1)
• Wonder Girl (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Flash #1)
• Cyborg (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Flash #1)
• Changeling (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Teen Titans Spotlight #9)
• Starfire (last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; next appearance in Flash #1)
• Raven (next appearance in New Teen Titans #32)

Other Character(s)

• Josiah Sledge (dies in this story; last appearance in Blue Beetle #13; no further appearances)
• Sledge's crew (Sparky named; die in this story; no further appearances)
• Frank Holt (a police detective; no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Mento (in flashback)
• Hybrid (in flashback)
• Curt Calhoun (Prometheus; in flashback)
• Gorgon (in flashback)
• Behemoth (in flashback)
• Pterodon (in flashback)
• Scirocco (in flashback)
• Blue Beetle (Dan Garrett; in flashback)

Comments:
This story continues in Blue Beetle #15.

Synopsis:
Blue Beetle returns to Chicago where he discovers that his work at Kord Industries has been piling up. Unwilling to do the work, Ted visits the police station to follow up on a missing persons case. He learns that Lt. Fisher has taken a vacation and suspects that the detective is headed to Pago Island.

Ted's suspicions are correct. Fisher has hired Josiah Sledge and his crew to take him to the island. Sledge plans to leave Fisher on the island, but his ship is thrown onto the island by an unseen force. The crew members are then killed.

Ted decides to make his own voyage to Pago Island to find Fisher. He discovers the dead bodies, but Fisher's is not among them. He tracks the police detective to a cave where the men are attacked by an armored foe, Carapax.