{"id":625,"date":"2019-02-19T08:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T16:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=625"},"modified":"2019-01-26T15:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T23:20:07","slug":"71-the-blue-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/71-the-blue-beetle\/","title":{"rendered":"71 &#8211; The Blue Beetle?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-blue-beetle-1024x892.png\" alt=\"A panel from the first Blue Beetle story in Mystery Men Comics #1, June 1939\" class=\"wp-image-626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-blue-beetle-1024x892.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-blue-beetle-300x261.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-blue-beetle-768x669.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-blue-beetle.png 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the first Blue Beetle story in Mystery Men Comics #1, June 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>June 1939 saw another important superhero moment in the publishing of Mystery Men Comics #1 (Fox Feature Syndicate) which included the first story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Beetle#Publication_history\">The Blue Beetle<\/a>. I was first introduced to the spandex-wearing, powerless-but-gadget-loving Ted Kord version of the Blue Beetle in the 1980s after DC decided to fold its Charlton comic characters into its main universe continuity and I always thought it was a weird name. I guess it never occurred to me that the original Blue Beetle started as a simple copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Green_Hornet\">Green Hornet<\/a>.  Dan Garret was a bland cop who decided to wear a mask, hat, and trenchcoat to fight crime in his off hours.  Sometimes he would leave a beetle scarab for criminals to find and get scared about. Ooo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The creation of this version of the character is a little muddied with the name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Nicholas\">Charles Nicholas<\/a> coming up (Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski) while others think that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Eisner\">Will Eisner<\/a> might have scripted the tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 1939 saw another important superhero moment in the publishing of Mystery Men Comics #1 (Fox Feature Syndicate) which included the first story of The Blue Beetle. I was first introduced to the spandex-wearing, powerless-but-gadget-loving Ted Kord version of the Blue Beetle in the 1980s after DC decided to fold its Charlton comic characters into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,87,67],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-blue-beetle","tag-fox-feature-syndicate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}