Blue Beetle (Kingdom Come)

Blue Beetle (Kingdom Come) Characteristics Real name Theodore 'Ted' Kord Affiliation Silent Cavalry; formerly Justice Battalion Family none First appearance Kingdom Come vol 1 #1 (May 1996) Appearance of death Kingdom Come vol 1 #4 (Aug 1996) Universe Kingdom Come/Earth-22 Alternates see Blue Beetle (disambiguation) History Ted Kord was a brilliant inventor who became the adventurer known as Blue Beetle. In his old age, he joined Batman's Silent Cavalry team that opposed Superman's Justice League. He went undercover with the rest of the team, pretending to ally themselves with Lex Luthor's Mankind Liberation Front in order to discover Lex's plans. Once they discovered that Luthor was brainwashing Captain Marvel, they captured the MLF members. Blue Beetle was killed at the Gulag in the U.N. nuclear bombing. Kingdom Come/Earth-22