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.