Beast Boy

Beast Boy
From promotional art for Teen Titans vol. 3, #36 (July 2006). Art by
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	as Beast Boy: The Doom Patrol #99 (Nov. 1965) as Changeling: DC Comics Presents #26 (Oct. 1980)
Created by	Arnold Drake (Writer) Bob Brown (Artist)
In-story information
Alter ego	Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan
Team affiliations	Doom Patrol Teen Titans Young Justice Justice League Titans West The Ravagers
Partnerships	Cyborg Terra Rose Wilson Robin Raven Starfire
Notable aliases	Changeling
Abilities	Metamorphic ability to transform into any animal or animal-like protist Highly skilled hand-to-hand combatant Werewolf psychology

Garfield Mark "Gar" Logan (also known as Beast Boy or Changeling) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

The character first appears in Doom Patrol #99 (Nov. 1965) and was created by Arnold Drake and Bob Brown.

As a young child, Garfield lived with his scientist parents in Africa, who were developing "reverse evolution" to bring back extinct creatures. He received a certain amount of abuse from these parents, consequently becoming increasingly reclusive. Garfield contracted a rare illness called Sakutia, which is lethal to every species except the West African green monkey. To save his life, his father used an untested serum to change him into a West Africa green monkey for 24 hours, so that the virus could die out. The serum had the unintended effect of turning his skin, eyes, and hair green, and granting him the ability to metamorph into any animal of his choice. His parents later died in a boating accident; to this day, Garfield believes he could have prevented their deaths. After he is rescued from two kidnappers who forced him to use his powers to help them in their crimes, Garfield is left under the care of a court-appointed guardian, the despicable Nicholas Galtry, who renames him "Craig". Galtry realizes that his embezzlement from the Garfield estate will be exposed when Garfield reaches maturity and receives his inheritance, and plots to kill Garfield. The villains he hires to kill Garfield are stopped by the Doom Patrol; Elasti-Girl and her husband, Steve Dayton, expose Galtry's embezzlement and adopt Garfield. Garfield later joins the superhero team; his uniform includes a full-head purple mask with a black or yellow band across the middle of the face, and he takes the code name Beast Boy. During his membership with the Doom Patrol, Garfield has a romantic relationship with a girl from his high school named Jillian Jackson. After he saves her from Galtry (then using the alias "Arsenal"), the relationship dissolves. Beast Boy is deeply affected by the deaths of the Doom Patrol.

He later uses both his lime green skin and shape-shifting powers to play an extraterrestrial character on a science-fiction television series, Space Trek: 2020, but it is soon cancelled due to lawsuits from both Star Trek and Space: 1999. During its run, Garfield joins the West Coast team of the Teen Titans (known as Titans West), and is later part of the New Teen Titans assembled by Raven. By this time, Garfield has taken the name Changeling. This change in names is not explained until a later flashback revealed that a new version of an old Doom Patrol enemy, the Arsenal (from DP #113, August 1967), the identity this time assumed by Gar's ex-guardian Nicholas Galtry, mocked the name "Beast Boy" so much that he ruined it for him. He remains with various incarnations of the team, and forms a close friendship with Cyborg.