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Ted Kord is a fictional superhero adventurer featured in comics books published by DC Comics. He is known in the costumed identity of Blue Beetle and is the main main character in several related titles, as well as issues of Justice League International. Ted Kord is the second man to adopt the identity of Blue Beetle, and is the successor to Dan Garret, the original Blue Beetle, who made his debut in the pages of Mystery Men Comics #1 back in August, 1939. Ted Kord was introduced as the second Blue Beetle in the second story in Captain Atom, Volume 3 #83 in November, 1966, which was published by Charlton Comics. He made four appearances as a back-up feature in that title until branching off into his own short-lived series, Blue Beetle, which only ran for five issues from June 1967 to November 1968. Issues #1 and #3 were reprinted by Modern Comics in 1977, but afterward, all of the previous Charlton heroes were then sold to DC Comics. DC allocated the Charlton Universe to the reality designation of Earth-Four, and Ted made his first DC appearance in Crisis on Infinite Earths #1 in 1985. The following year, Ted received his own Blue Beetle ongoing series as part of the greater DC Universe. The series ran from June 1986 to May 1988, spanning a total of twenty-four issues. Afterward, Blue Beetle became one of the founding members of the revamped Justice League title, which became Justice League International with issue #7. He later became a regular character in the Extreme Justice series, appearing in all eighteen regular issues, plus the zero issue. Blue Beetle made recurring appearances in the Birds of Prey ongoing comic book series between 1999 and 2005. Ted reunited with his old JLI pals, otherwise known as the "Super Buddies", in the 2003-2004 limited series Formerly Known as the Justice League. By May of 2005, things took a very dark turn for Ted Kord. He was brutally murdered by Maxwell Lord in the Countdown to Infinite Crisis one-shot special. A time-displaced version of Ted emerged during the second Booster Gold series, which ran from 2007 to 2011.