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, at First, You Don't Succeed..."
Pages: 22

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

Writer: Len Wein
Penciller: Don Heck
Inker: Daniel Bulanadi
Letterer: John Costanza
Colorist: Eugene D'Angelo

Reprinted From:
Blue Beetle #24 (1988)

Feature Character(s)

• Blue Beetle (last appearance in Blue Beetle #23; next appearance in Justice League International #13)

Supporting Character(s)

• Melody Case (last appearance in Blue Beetle #23; no further appearances)
• Lt. Maxwell Fisher (last appearance in Blue Beetle #23; no further appearances)
• Randall Truman (last appearance in Blue Beetle #21; no further appearances)

Villain(s)

• Carapax (last appearance in Blue Beetle #23; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Thomas Kord (last appearance in Blue Beetle #23; no further appearances)
• Emily Truman (Randall's wife; no further appearances)
• An unnamed fisherman (no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from Blue Beetle #23.

Synopsis:
Thomas Kord arrives at Kord Industries and announces that he is taking the company back from his son. Ted storms off and searches the city for crime as Blue Beetle. While he is away, Carapax locates the hangar under Kord Industries. He begins destroying the building from underground. When Blue Beetle returns he fights Carapax. The building crashes down around them. To defeat Carapax, Blue Beetle is forced to use the Bug's self-destruct mechanism. Ted then plans to leave Chicago, while leaving his father to rebuild the company.