Blue Beetle (Volume 6) with a cover date of February, 1988.
Contents
Appearing in "If This Works, It'll Be a Miracle!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Aquaman (Flashback only)
- Batman (Flashback only)
- Belphegor
- Boy Commandos
- Floronic Man (Flashback only)
- Kilowog (Flashback only)
- Martian Manhunter (Flashback only)
- Twiggie Twidget
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Synopsis for "If This Works, It'll Be a Miracle!"
The super-heroes assembled at the Green Lantern Citadel are determined to seek out the Manhunter base at the Earth's core, and Blue Beetle suggests that the Sunspore, a starprobe craft designed by Kord, Inc., may be of use, while Mr. Miracle asserts that he can adapt the probe to melt through the Earth's crust using Apokolipsian technology. Thus, the two heroes return to the Beetle's Nest in the Bug, and the Beetle, as Ted Kord, orders the Sunspore readied for use. Unknown to him, his terrorist adversary Overthrow is secretly a Kord employee, and as Blue Beetle and Mr. Miracle test the Sunspore, Overthrow and a squad of Manhunters suddenly appear and attack them, ultimately knocking both heroes unconscious.
Ted Kord's various friends and associates are occupied with other matters. Elsewhere in Chicago, his executive assistant and girlfriend Melody Case spends more and more time with fellow executive Randall Truman; in Paris, Jeremiah Duncan confers with Belphegor, former director of the Dome, concerning the threat posed by Klaus Cornelius; in London, Murray Takamoto finds himself a guest at a reunion of the former members of World War II's famed Boy Commandos. At the same time, in Frankfurt, a more sinister gathering takes place, as Klaus Cornelius meets with various powerful and unscrupulous European business magnates, drug dealers, and crime czars at the home of industrialist Dekan Drache.
Blue Beetle, of course, has no time to consider any of these developments, as he and Mr. Miracle are sealed within the thermal interface between the inner and outer shells of the Sunspore craft, which is then activated and sent on its way beneath the Earth's surface by Overthrow and his fellow Manhunters. As the villains make their escape, however, they are astonished to find their way blocked by Blue Beetle and Mr. Miracle aboard the Bug. After a short struggle, the two heroes defeat the Manhunters. Overthrow, who is dumbfounded at his foes' survival, is also easily apprehended. Mr. Miracle reveals how he used his Mother Box and Multi-Cube to protect himself from the heat and escape from the probe, while the Beetle explains that, after his BB-gun enabled him to escape into the craft's shielded interior, he then summoned the Bug, which pulled the Sunspore from the tunnel it had formed.
The Beetle then unmasks his foe, but to his surprise, Overthrow's red hair is a wig, and he is actually Arnold Beck, a Kord, Inc. manual laborer, and not Randall Truman, as Blue Beetle had suspected.
Notes
- Reprinted in Showcase Presents: Blue Beetle.
- This issue is a "Millennium" Week Six tie-in issue.
Trivia
- No trivia.
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See Also
Recommended Reading
- Millennium
- Blue Beetle Recommended Reading
- All Top Comics (Volume 1)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 1)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 2)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 3)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 4)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 5)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 6)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 7)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 8)
- Blue Beetle (Volume 9)
- Justice League America (Volume 1)
- Justice League Europe (Volume 1)
- Justice League International (Volume 1)
- Justice League Recommended Reading
- Justice League of America (Volume 1)
- Justice League of America (Volume 2)
- Justice League of America (Volume 3)
- Justice League of America (Volume 4)
- Justice League of America (Volume 5)
- JLA (Volume 1)
- Justice League (Volume 1)
- Justice League (Volume 2)
- Justice League (Volume 3)
- Justice League (Volume 4)
- Justice League International (Volume 1)
- Justice League International (Volume 2)
- Justice League International (Volume 3)
- Justice League Europe (Volume 1)
- Justice League America (Volume 1)
- Justice League Task Force (Volume 1)
- Justice League Quarterly (Volume 1)
- Justice League Dark (Volume 1)
- Justice League Dark (Volume 2)
- Extreme Justice (Volume 1)
- Justice League Elite (Volume 1)
Links and References
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- Dick Giordano/Executive Editor
- Chris Wozniak/Cover Artist
- Len Wein/Writer
- Ross Andru/Penciler
- Danny Bulanadi/Inker
- Gene D'Angelo/Colourist
- John Costanza/Letterer
- Dennis O'Neil/Editor
- Theodore Kord (New Earth)/Appearances
- Angela Revere (New Earth)/Appearances
- Jeremiah Duncan (New Earth)/Appearances
- Melody Case (New Earth)/Appearances
- Scott Free (New Earth)/Appearances
- Murray Takamoto (New Earth)/Appearances
- Randall Truman (New Earth)/Appearances
- David Clinton (New Earth)/Appearances
- Dekan Drache (New Earth)/Appearances
- Manhunter Grandmaster (New Earth)/Appearances
- Klaus Cornelius (New Earth)/Appearances
- Manhunters (New Earth)/Appearances
- Arnold Beck (New Earth)/Appearances
- Orin (New Earth)/Appearances
- Bruce Wayne (New Earth)/Appearances
- Belphegor (New Earth)/Appearances
- Boy Commandos (New Earth)/Appearances
- Alfred Twidgett (New Earth)/Appearances
- Andre Chavard (New Earth)/Appearances
- Jan Haasan (New Earth)/Appearances
- Rip Carter (New Earth)/Appearances
- Jason Woodrue (New Earth)/Appearances
- Kilowog (New Earth)/Appearances
- J'onn J'onzz (New Earth)/Appearances
- Theodora Twidgett (New Earth)/Appearances
- Chicago/Appearances
- Kord Industries/Appearances
- England/Appearances
- London/Appearances
- France/Appearances
- Paris, France/Appearances
- Eiffel Tower/Appearances
- Germany/Appearances
- Frankfurt/Appearances
- Blue Beetle's Bug/Appearances
- Millennium
- Comics
- 1988
- 1988, February
- 1987, December (Publication)
- Blue Beetle Vol 6
- Modern-Age
- Synopsis Written
- Millennium Crossover