Story: "Echos of Future Past!" (23 Pages)

Credits: Len Wein (plot, script); Gil Kane (pencils, inks); John Costanza (letters); Anthony Tollin (colors), Julius Schwartz (edits)

Feature Characters: Blue Beetle I (Professor Dan Garrett of Midwestern University; chronologically earliest DC appearance, see Comments below; in JLA: Year One #4 and #12 and then Legends of the DC Universe #3 in between pages 12 and 13; next in Blue Beetle Vol. 2 #17); Blue Beetle II (Ted Kord; chronologically earliest DC appearance; in JLA: Year One #3 in between pages 12 and 13)

Villains: General Amenhotep (first appearance), The Mummy of Kha-Ef-Re (first appearance); Jarvis Kord (Ted Kord's uncle; dies)

Other Characters: Professor Luri Hosid (first appearance; an Egyptian archaeologist), Kha-Ef-Re (first appearance; as a spirit; enables Dan Garrett to become The Blue Beetle)

Cameo Appearances: Mr. Thunderbolt, The Preying Mantis-Man, Mentor the Magnificent, Magno-Man, The Red Knight, Mr. Crabb (villains of the first Blue Beetle; all appear in cameos only)

Chronological Commments: This story takes place over several months, possibly years. Both characters appear in the JLA: Year One series during this story.

Commments: It is not known how long before the current heroic age The Blue Beetle operated, or how many of his Pre-Crisis adventures are part of current continuity.