DC Finest: Blue Beetle: Blue Beetle Challenges the Red Knight #[nn] (2025) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

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Series: DC Finest: Blue Beetle: Blue Beetle Challenges the Red Knight (DC, 2025 series)
Issue: #[nn]
Publication date: [October] 2025
Key date: October 2025
On-sale date: August 12, 2025
Indicia publisher: DC Comics
Price: $39.99; 53.99 CAD
Pages: 372
Barcode: 978179950248753999
ISBN: 978-1-79950-248-7

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Why this issue matters

Origin story on record for: Blue Beetle.

The evidence

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Dick Giordano	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Red Knight [Lew Coll]; Regina White
1	The Giant Mummy Who Was Not Dead!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Frank McLaughlin	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
2	The Giant Mummy Who Was Not Dead	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle Origin, Dan Garrett
3	Hot War in the Arctic	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Vince Colletta	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
4	Hot War in the Arctic	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
5	Mr. Thunderbolt!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Pat Masulli; inks: Dick Giordano	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
6	Mr. Thunderbolt and the Superstar	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
7	Praying Mantis-Man	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Pat Masulli; inks: Dick Giordano	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, Hunter Mann, The Praying Mantis-Man
8	The Praying Mantis-Man	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico; letters: Jon D'Agostino	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, Hunter Mann, The Praying Mantis-Man
9	Blue Beetle Pin-Up	illustration	1	pencils: Pat Masulli; inks: Pat Masulli	Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett
10	The Capture of the White Queen	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Jon D'Agostino	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Red Knight [Lew Coll]; Regina White
11	Blue Beetle Challenges The Red Knight	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico; letters: Jon D'Agostino	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Red Knight [Lew Coll]; Regina White
12	The Scorpion	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle; Mister Crabb
13	The Scorpion	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico; letters: Sha-Ro-Ine	Blue Beetle [Dr. Dan Garrett]; Mister Crabb (villain)
14	Mentor The Magnificent	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Tony Tallarico; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Mentor the Magnificent
15	Mentor The Magnificent	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Mentor the Magnificent (robot); Dr. Jeremiah Clugg; Miss Appleton
16	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Tony Tallarico; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dr. Dan Garrett]; Magno Man [Dr. Louis Forte]
17	Magno the Man Who Shakes the World	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Tony Tallarico; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle; Magno Man
18	The People-Thieves	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Tony Tallarico; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man
19	The People Thieves	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Tony Tallarico; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Praying Mantis-Man [Hunter Mann]; Diane
20	The Eye of Horus	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]
21	The Eye of Horus	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico	Blue Beetle [Dan Garrett]; Professor Luri Hoshid; Professor W. Elmo Philipps; Eye of Horus
22	The Defeats of Captain Atom!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio, Steve Ditko; letters: Jon D'Agostino	Allen Adam, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Ted Kord
23	The New Blue Beetle	comic story	7	script: Steve Ditko, Gary Friedrich; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Herb Field	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
24	After the Fall, a New Beginning!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio; letters: Herb Field	Allen Adam, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Ted Kord
25	Wanted for Murder	comic story	7	script: Steve Ditko, Gary Friedrich; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Herb Field	Blue Beetle, Lt. Fisher, Ted Kord, Tracey
26	The Strings of Punch and Jewelee	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko, Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio	Allen Adam, Blue Beetle, Captain Atom, Eve Eden, Jewelee, Ted Kord, Nightshade, Punch
27	Blue Beetle Fights a Submarine	comic story	7	script: Steve Ditko, Gary Friedrich; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
28	Fury of the Faceless Foe	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Rocco "Rocke" Mastroserio	Allen Adam, Captain Atom, Eve Eden, The Ghost, Nightshade, Alec Rois
29	The Masked Marauder	comic story	7	script: Steve Ditko, Gary Friedrich; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
30	Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, The Question, Vic Sage
31	Blue Beetle Bugs the Squids	comic story	18	script: Steve Ditko, D. C. Glanzman; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Blue Beetle, Lt. Fisher, Dan Garrett, Jarvis Kord, Ted Kord, Tracey
32	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Blue Beetle, Dan Garrett, Jarvis Kord, Ted Kord
33	The End Is a Beginning	comic story	18	script: Steve Ditko, D. C. Glanzman; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Blue Beetle Origin, Lt. Fisher, Dan Garrett, Jarvis Kord, Ted Kord, Tracey
34	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
35	The Madmen	comic story	18	script: Steve Ditko, D. C. Glanzman; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Bob Agnew	Blue Beetle, Lt. Fisher, Dan Garrett, Ted Kord, Tracey
36	BB Faces the Men of the Mask!	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Herb Field	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
37	The Men of the Mask!	comic story	18	script: Steve Ditko, D. C. Glanzman; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Herb Field	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, Tracey
38	BB Faces the "Destroyer of Heroes"	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord
39	Blue Beetle Faces the Destroyer of Heroes	comic story	18	script: Steve Ditko, D. C. Glanzman; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, The Question, Vic Sage
40	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: Dan Reed; inks: Bob McLeod	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, The Question, Vic Sage
41	The Enigma!	comic story	22	script: Benjamin Smith; pencils: Dan Reed; inks: Dan Reed, Albert Val, Bill Black; colors: Wendy Fiore; letters: Bill Pearson	Blue Beetle, Ted Kord, The Question, Vic Sage

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Sources

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