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Blue Beetle

Blue Beetle
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Dan Garret, Ted Kord, and Jaime Reyes. Art from the Blue Beetle Companion, by Tom Feister.
Publisher Vol. 1: Fox Comics (except #12–30: Holyoke Publishing)
Vols. 2–5: Charlton Comics
Vols. 6–9: DC Comics
First appearance Mystery Men Comics #1 (August 1939)
Created by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski
Characters Dan Garret
Ted Kord
Jaime Reyes
Blue Beetle
Blue Beetle #4 (October 1940). Cover artist unknown; possibly Edd Ashe.
Series publication information
Schedule Vol. 1: Bi-monthly #1–13, #41–44
Monthly #17–36, #45–60
Quarterly #37–40
Vols. 2, 5–9: Monthly
Vol. 3: Monthly #1–4
Bi-monthly #5
Vol. 4: Monthly #1–53
Bi-monthly #54
Format All
Standard U.S., 4 color. When published, ongoing.
Genre Superhero
Publication date Vol. 1: 1939 – August 1950
Vol. 2: February – August 1955
Vol. 3: June 1964 – March/April 1965
Vol. 4: July 1965 – February/March 1966
Vol. 5: June 1967 – November 1968
Vol. 6: June 1986 – May 1988
Vol. 7: May 2006 – February 2009
Vol. 8: September 2011 – January 2013
Vol. 9: September 2016 – present
Number of issues Vol. 1: 59 (numbered 1–42; 44–60)
Vol. 2: 4 (numbered 18–21)
Vol. 3: 5
Vol. 4: 5 (numbered 50–54)
Vol. 5: 5
Vol. 6: 24
Vol. 7: 36
Vol. 8: 17 (numbered 1–12; 0; 13–16)
Vol. 9: 6 (as of February 2017 and a DC Rebirth one-shot)
Main character(s) Vols. 1–2: Dan Garret
Vols. 3–4: Dan Garrett
Vols. 5–6: Ted Kord
Vols. 7–9: Jaime Reyes

Blue Beetle is the name of three fictional superheroes who appear in a number of American comic books published by a variety of companies since 1939. The most recent of the companies to own rights to the Blue Beetle is DC Comics who bought the rights to the character in 1983, using the name for three distinct characters over the years.

The original Blue Beetle was created by Fox Comics and later owned by Charlton Comics. The first Beetle was Dan Garrett, who initially gained super powers from a special vitamin, which was later changed to gaining powers from a "sacred scarab". The original Blue Beetle was featured not only in his own comic but also a weekly radio serial.

The Second Blue Beetle was created by Charlton and later taken over by DC Comics, the successor to Dan Garrett known as Ted Kord. Kord "jumped" to the DC Comics universe during the Crisis on Infinite Earths alongside a number of other Charlton Comics characters. The second Blue Beetle later starred in his own 24 issue comic. Kord never had any super powers but used science to create various devices to help him fight crime. He became a member of the Justice League of America and was later killed during DC Comics' Infinite Crisis cross over.

The third Blue Beetle, created by DC Comics, is Jaime Reyes, a teenager who discovered that the original Blue Beetle scarab morphed into a battle suit allowing him to fight crime and travel in space. Over the years Reyes became a member of the Teen Titans and starred in two Blue Beetle comic series. In DC Comic's "New 52" reboot, Jaime Reyes was the primary Blue Beetle character, only occasionally referring to past versions. However, with the subsequent continuity revision "DC Rebirth", the previous versions were restored.


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