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Blue Beetle
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Real Name
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Daniel Garret
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First Appearance
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Mystery Men Comics #1 (August, 1939)
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Creators
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Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski
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Team Affiliations
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All-Star Squadron
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Aliases
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Base of Operations
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Mobile
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Powers
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Super Strength, Flight, Electrical “Stinger” Blasts, Enhanced Durability, Enhanced Agility
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Skills and Abilities
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Fighting Experience, Police training
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Paraphernalia
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Scarab talisman
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Blue Beetle (Dan Garret) is a superhero who appeared in comic books of the same name originally appearing in Fox Comics and later Charleston comics before being owned by DC Comics and being part of the DC Universe.
Origin[]
Dan Garrett found a scarab talisman in a pyramid in Egypt. It enhanced his abilities and he decided to use them to fight crime as the Blue Beetle.
Biography[]
Dan Garret was born to Michael Garret and an unnamed mother on December 6, 1916,
And he found that it gave him powers (better physical abilities), but when the character died in a story the writers invented a strange plot in which Scarab was always alien technology, but a magical event in Egypt made him a magical object. Ted was unable to use it because he was starting to return to normal, Jamie found him when he was normal again, and created armor around him as he should. The new 52 stated that Dan was a hero who just happened to use the name Blue Beetle, to simplify everything with him being the owner of the air vehicle with a beetle theme that in the original comics was Ted's, Ted in this version was not a super, just a scientist.
In other media[]
The producers of the cartoon "Batman The Brave and The Bold" used the character, but as they didn't explain the story, then it was confusing: the cartoon established that he wore a superhero outfit just like Ted (and not a superhero armor).
The producers of the Young Justice cartoon, were more creative, said that Scarab could not completely form the armor on Dan and because of that he wore a superhero disguise.