Blue Beetle #5, "Destroyer of Heroes." My mom sometimes bought stacks of old comics at a wholesaler, and that dog-eared issue was NOTHING like the Marvels surrounding it. It haunted me until I tracked down another copy years later and made certain that I hadn't dreamed it.
Reminded me of a trip to Ohio my parents took me on. At one point we were in thrift shop that had oodles of comics for sale. I saw (and bought) that same Blue Beetle#5 which confused me because I had only seen the Dan Garret version before. Also got introduced to Judomaster (also master of Karate and Jiu Jitsu!) in thay pile and finally a Mandrake The Magician from King comic book run. Always liked to get my hands on the non-Marvel and non-DC books when I was a kid. It was hard to find them on Long Island where I grew up!
I love the Blue Beetle! I got in with the Jaime Reyes version, but I really enjoy Ted Kord too (bit a Blue and Gold fan). The Jaime version was really paying homage to both Ted and Dan Garret, hope the movie does too
As a small child, I remember my dad having bought me that issue of Captain Atom in which Blue Beetle made his (new) debut! Oddly, today, I remember some of the Blue Beetle panels better than I remember what the Captain Atom story was about.
Great video ! I love Ted Kord’s Blue Beetle and I think he goes unfairly unrecognised by a lot of fans, although the fans that do love him love him very much. I find it so interesting how Ditko drew Ted, he looks strikingly similar to an adult Peter Parker. I wonder if that was intentional or just a similar visual archetype for heroes that Ditko drew.
I remember seeing the Charlton house ads for Blue Beetle #6 back in 1968, and then haunting the stands searching in vain for it. It was such a huge thrill when The Charlton Portfolio finally published the story in 1974!
I was a Question fan back in the 80s, the Denny O'Neil one, and the comic store had a beautiful painting celebrating the DC buyout of Charlton . Question, BB, Peacemaker, Capt Atom, Nightshade, Sarge Steel and Judomaster. I was intrigued by these characters, and bribed the owner out of the poster. I started collecting these characters, and was introduced to many others in the Charlton pantheon, some better than others, all entertaining. I lost the poster somewhere back in the 90s, but through the magic of ebay, I found another one, and had it framed. Beautiful even today. To this day, I am simply known to local shops as " The Charlton guy". :)
It's worth noting that the Jaime Reyes incarnation of Blue Beetle is getting his own solo movie that is set for release on August 18, 2023. Jaime was often featured in the Young Justice animated series. Ted Kord's Beetle appeared in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. It was odd to see the third Blue Beetle featured in an episode of Smallville. But it was really nice to see Blue Beetle 2 get his own DC Showcase animated short. Go, Ted, go!
When I got into collecting comics in the late 70s, I discovered the Charlton Action Heroes and started to collect them. Got the AC Comics stuff when they came out and DC's series when that appeared. I was able to get all the Ditko BB and some of the earlier stuff. I also worked on the wikipedia article on Blue Beetle, and related pages, but that was years ago when I was more into that.
I throughly enjoy your vids it takes me back to my childhood. Many on the titles you cover had at one time in my youth been in my collection. (Original not reprint) There is one more iteration of the blue beetle from the 70s that I'm surprised you didn't mention that kick started the modern DC rebrand. That is his appearance in the PBS children's program, The Electric company.
Blue Beetle was never one of my favorites but I'm a huge DC fan and a huge legacy character fan and BB falls into these two categories so he snuck his way into my party so to speak!!😏😉
Loved your info about E-Man. One of the first comics I ever collected as a child. Loved that hero so much. Comments were turned off on the vid, but really wanted you to know how much I appreciated seeing more info about a character so few seem to remember.
I can remember Blue Beatle from Crisis.on Infinite Earths series .And thought looked cool back in the day ,and sure saw earlier ,but don't remember .Since there was so many titles on the shelf back then .
Merry Christmas to you & your family Darrin! 🎁 Thanks for the videos and entertainment, it's always a treat when I get notifications of your new videos. Happy Holidays!
1. I just stumbled across your channel tonight. 2. I legitimately know nothing about your journey, your process, or even how RU-vid success works or is measured. BUT! From the few videos I’ve watched form from fairly recently, compared to the few I’ve watched that were several years older… I definitely like the more dramatic, affected narration style myself. You’re talking about cheesy old school golden age characters. They’re all about super pulpy drama. The voice works. Do it up, bro.
Hi Jesse! Thanks for watching. Thank you for noticing! I try to make these stuffy documentaries as enjoyable as possible. I really had to up my game because these videos keep getting longer and longer. People wouldn't watch if I droned on.
So are we just going to act like the Blue Beetle wasn't on the Electric Company? I loved The early Ted Kord Blue Beetle. It is a real shame DC treated him so poorly (making him fat, giving him a heart attack, losing his company, killing him).
There is an omnibus 2 hard back books. Name is action comics has Charlton 3 big heroes. Unfortunately it's published by DC capt atom blue beetle and my favorite question.
@@FizzFop1 I'm a Team Ted guy, but I confess I like the kid too. He's at least as different a take on the character as Ted was from his predecessor, which is kind of keeping with the tradition for the Blue Beetle name. That said, I don't see why we can't have both of them active at once. No one's going to get the two confused, after all.
I remember the ad in com-x books. The black and white part of the ad struck me as odd as kid.. It looked like Spider-man and Capt. Marvel.... but it's not. I do remember the Hostess comic book ads. DC and Marvel.... You know HULK LOVE FRUIT PIES... Great to a vid so soon FUZZ!!! Flea market find as a kid( not com-x). My mom was an antique dealer. We went to Buffalo NY one summer to see my ant. I got two Monkeys LP's(Headquarters and Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.).. But on the way home to Ohio i got my first Starlog mag(maybe No. 4) that was a great summer for me.
Hey S. Christy!!! Glad to see your comment. My parents were antique wheelers and dealers also. I still love going to flea markets, auctions, and garage sales. The last record I bought was at a flea market and it was Vanilla Fudge Live. I think I paid 4 bucks for it. Oh man, my older sister had a subscription to Starlog. We couldn't wait until it arrived. Of course, because it was her subscription, I would have to wait until she read it.
Merry X-mas to you Jeremy and have a Happy New Year...I'm good. I don't need anything...well, maybe socks...all mine has holes in them...come to think of it, my underwear isn't in the best of shape either.
PLEASE DON'T TELL ME IT WAS ON ROUTE 20 IN NEW YORK, BECAUSE I SOLD A BOX OF LEFTOVERS IN MY SISTER'S GARAGE SALE AND MY BROTHER IN LAW ALWAYS WORKED ON HIS OLD 60'S CAR IN THE GARAGE AND SMOKED MARLBOROS OR WINSTONS. THING IS I HAD ALL THOSE IN THE SALE. OH I DO I BOUGHT A BOX OF COMICS AND A PRICE GUIDE ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO THAT WAS FILLED WITH SILVER AND BRONZE AGE MARVELS, D.C. AND INDEPENDENT TITLES AND GOT ME BACK INTO THE GAME AGAIN!!!GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS
I saw my first Blue Beetle comic in the early or mid 1970's. I went with my grandpa to get our hair cut. While I was waiting for my turn, I looked through a pile of old comics the barber had. One was a coverless BB comic from the 1960's . I really liked the Blue Beetle, drawn by "The old Spider-Man artist". I was not as impressed by the backup feature The Question. I found his "costume" underwhelming. Many have forgotten this, but in the 1970's, PBS had a show called The Electric Company. A comedic version of the Blue Beetle was a reoccurring character. The Electric Company had also signed a deal with Marvel to have Spider-Man appear on the show. One episode featured Spider-Man meeting the Blue Beetle. I believe this predated the Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man comic, so Spidey meeting BB was the first inter-company crossover.
Thanks for that comment! I hesitated remarking on Beetles inclusion in Electric Company because I couldn’t be sure if I dreamt it or not. I knew Spidey made appearances and Morgan Freeman played Dracula but the Blue Beetle can’t be real!
Funny you mention the Electric Company...some of my friends who are not into comics have sent me links to it. I've had at least four people send me the same link. LOL!
I like the Ted Kord Blue Beetle a lot more than the Jaime Reyes version. Also, DC has been through at least three continuity reboots since Ted Kord was killed off and he's been restored to life; at the time that I'm writing this, he's starring in a miniseries called Blue and Gold with his best friend Booster Gold.
I hate Jaime but Ted's death was a great story that was perfectly executed in my opinion. Retroactively made him a more interesting character, in a way that made him less redundant in a modern DC universe. And I don't think every hero needs a built-up to, 12 issue epic to be killed off. I know most Kord fans disagree though.
I never realized there were actually no Charlton Blue Beetle comics published in the 70's! I saw the cool Bullseye ad as a kid in 1975 and assumed that there were books related to the character that somehow I could never find.
Dick Giordano 's story is amazing. So is BBs journey. Ted will always be my favorite Beetle. Giordano lived long enough to see so much of his legacy. His Dracula adaptation is beautiful. It's also great that so many legends grew under his care.
There was a radio serial in the 1930's of the Blue Beetle. In the animated series, Batman: Brave and the Bold, the Blue Beetle featured prominently. There was an episode where he battled the Madmen.
I’m a fan of Ted from the JLI days, but it lead me to looking up the Charlton and AC stuff. I remember getting the AC Comics issue with the return of Dan Garrett after I took my SATs in 2000. The comic shop I went to had that issue on a shelf for months. I finally had the money to buy it and I loved it! Great episode!
The team of Ted Kord's Blue Beetle and Booster Gold during that period, not just in the Justice League but the entire DCU, was hilarious without being stupid. I didn't like them killing Ted off but I did like the scene where Max Lord was giving him credit for being a great detective, on par with Batman. That was an unfortunate casualty of his teaming with Booster Gold; they stopped taking him seriously. I don't hate the newer scarab-driven version of the character but I'd love to see Ted somehow come back and become a mentor of some kind. We did get to see a pretty good version of him in the "Batman: The Brave & The Bold" animated series, even if it was just to advance the storyline for the newer character.
I loved those two AC books as well. Frankly preferred what they did over what DC did with the characters but I am biased. I always liked the Dan Garret Blue Beetle best! Sometimes I think his alter ego inspired the Indiana Jones character with the Archaeologist angle!
I got in to Blue Beetle in the 80s when Len Wein and Paris Cullins were doing the monthly title. It was so up beat and fun; with the rolling plot lines constantly keeping up the momentum. Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, the end got messed up by the interference of one of DC's interminable cross-over events; maybe "Invasion". The Blue and Gold stuff in Justice League International was also a delight. I enjoy the Jaime Reyes version too; especially in the early episodes, where his battlesuit was pretty mysterious.
I still have a few issues of the various variations of the Blue Beetle. I bought them whenever I saw a new one. I'm 70 now and still can remember my excitement when I'd find one.
This was a great video. Thank you. I never read the beetle but always thought he looked cool. I really don't like the new DC remake. It's way too close to the Japanese comic/anime Guyver Bio Buster Armor and I love Guyver. So I hate to see DC ripoff the idea. Anyways thanks for all the pulp comic goodness that you do.
Always been a fan of Ted Kord, from his series and Justice League appearances. Like other heroes of the JL International, I never saw the comedy as some restriction that he couldn't go serious in other tales. So I was no fan of him being killed off as a prop for other characters' benefit, and it among other factors meant the end of my (contemporary) comic collecting days.
Great video bro .I'm a huge fan of the Ted Kord version of Blue Beetle .Ten comics for a dollar that's an awesome deal .Well Merry Christmas to you and yours bro.
My induction into the Cult O' Ted Kord was in the...late 70's?...when I came across reprints of issues #1 and 3 (yep, the same two you bought in that garage all those years ago) in the F.W. Woolworth's in Woodhaven, Queens. I will admit, though, to grooving more on The Question than Blue Beetle....
Gosh, what a great video, this was like an unexpected Christmas present for me. Coincidentally enough I had read the new DC versions of their old origins written by Len Wein and drawn by Gil Kane just a few days ago from Secret Origins # 2. I originally got into the character from the very story that they killed em off in, that was back when I read mainstream comics, I didn't know much about the guy at the time so I looked for old DC appearances (As they were the only things I felt I could find) and even got this really cool Blue Beetle companion book that basically told me the whole history of the character up to the point of Jamie Reyes first showing up. I learned a lot of history from that book, it indirectly made me a Wonder Man fan, along with the other Fox and Charlton characters alike. Wish I didn't lose that book, it was a great read. I definitely like the Blue Beetle, the Ted Kord version is my favorite. He was indirectly, along with Spider-Man, one of the inspirations of a character I made myself. You're so lucky having issues number 1 and three of the original series, that's a great find!!!
Hi Andrew, glad you enjoyed my video. My collection is an unorganized mess, but I believe I have all of the 1960s issues. Most of them, I picked up for next to nothing...but it's extremely hard finding higher grade issues.
I'm surprised there aren't more Dan Garrett BB fans on this thread. I hope he and Ted get some more props when Jaime's Blue Beetle comes to the screen in live action. If they could incorporate all three versions into the storyline it would be awesome.
I was a huge fan of the Dan Garret versions, both the Golden Age and the Charlton one with the scarab. One of the Jamie Reyes ones had him in flashback but confused both Dan's as being one person, perhaps because of that story from AC Comics?
Ted's Blue Beetle was hugely popular in the 80s to now there's a new Blue Beetle which has a spiritual connection to the first one in the Ancient Beetle artifact it could be the same one or definitely has a similar sense of being the same as the first? The second BB was like Spiderman but in fact I think he deserves his place in the hall of heroic crime fighter's one question though was there only two Blue Beetles I seem to remember that Ted had a sidekick for a few years he call was call Cricket or Beetle Kid he were a blue jump suit with yellow markings and wore goggles he eventually was killed or disappeared in a massive earthquake it was believed he lived on in another universe by the name Golden Beetle or something else?
The Golden Age Blue Beetle had a kid sidekick when Holyoke briefly published it between the two runs by Fox . He wore a legless version of the Blue Beetle costume. Originally called Sparky he was later Spunky. Ted never had a kid sidekick I ever heard of.
Think your theory about Fox's debt to Charlton is probably on the mark. Very common for publishers to accept/demand publishing rights from companies that owed them for past printing jobs back then. Ted Kord's "my" Beetle. Loved Ditko's work on him as a kid, although I never really registered on him being a Batman knockoff back then. He felt like more of a techie to me than Bruce ever did, and the Bug was the coolest thing in the strip to young me. And of course his JLI days are pure gold. Booster Gold, even. :) Fond memories of the Charlton Bullseye too. Nice bit of nostalgia. Same goes for those old 3-for-$1 comic baggies, although I was in college before I found out I'd been buying unsold leftovers back then. Trying to figure out what the middle book in each bag was the real challenge. Another terrific video, glad you're back up and running.
Nice video, but sorry, it kept bugging me that you were mispronouncing Giordano's name. Gior-DAH-no, not Gior-DAY-no. That Alan Weiss Blue Beetle redesign gave me strong Booster Gold vibes. Ted Cord is my favorite Blue Beetle. The way the character was written in the early 90's in Justice League International was priceless!
After Ted Kord passed away but in the Booster Gold series they used time travel to go back and rescue Ted and Booster and the current and future Beetles were trying stop a time anomaly from happening.Ted realizes that his changed timeline helped set the anomaly in motion so he sacrifices himself and officially passes the torch to Jaime Reyes and says good bye to Booster then goes back to die.
Good video. Buying the Blue and Gold series from DC, currently. It is okay. I like Jurgen's writing but prefer if he was drawing it as well. Cully Hamner's art on issue 3 was great. I had forgot the Reyes version even existed.
Picked up my first issue of the Charlton beetle run in 73' then grabbed the Steve ditko issue with the beetle and question on the cover. Back in 73 I ' had been loosely following the characto evolution. Ever since Glad DC incorporated the character into the line. Great review 👍🌲
I love hero's that I know very little of and I didn't know Blue Beetle was actually based of the Green Hornet and no one really knows who created The Beetle lol ok thats awesome. Everyone has a beginning 👍
I first learned about the original Blue Beetle (and other Golden Age heroes that didn't come from the Big 2) from Ron Goulart's "Great History of Comic Books". I was quite surprised to learn just how popular he was in the 40s. To have his own radio show, in the days before TV series? That was a big deal!
Both it and the comic strip came to premature ends. I actually have a few of the Radio shows on tape cassettes. I wish Old Time Radio Spirits would put out one of their CD compilations on the show. They could tie it in with the upcoming movie release!
Been reading up on Justice League International and that's where I first met the Ted Kord iteration of the Beetle, and it's interesting how DC essentially bought a line up with a guy that was just a bug-themed Batman: Crimefighter with no superpowers, gadgetry, a self-themed vehicle, rich industrialist with a secret identity, pretty much just an underage sidekick short of being another Green Arrow, but instead of just keeping him as is, throughout his JLI run and especially during the millennium event, he essentially became Batman: the failure edition. He's a lot better around people in-costume but bungles his every human relationship as Kord, runs his company into the ground, and when he becomes disillusioned with his team's and his own strength, he crashes at Booster's and eats nothing but microwave dinners. And if that sounds like I'm talking smack about Ted, that's what I like about him. That they kinda turned him imperfect as to not have _another_ Batman ripoff rotting on the shelves.
Awsome video! When I read the character he was comic relief with Booster Gold in JLI. Good stories for their time. I did get to see him in more serious adventures and thought that story killing Ted Kord was horrible! Anyways love your vid, and enjoyed hearing about Dan Garret and the Blue Beetle’s history overall. Thank you!
To hear you reminisce about buying that comic pack at that garage sale is one of the most pure and innocent reflections of a better time long since passed. Have a great new year and continued success to you and your channel. Cheers.
@@FizzFop1 yes. Watching yours and the other comic channels that look at the golden age stuff you see a lot of heroes or themes that have been recycled
Charlton Comics will always be part of some of the good memories of my childhood. D.C. bought the lineup for 30,000 ! Jesus, did they wear a mask and have a gun on 'em ? Unreal just a giveaway, even for that time.
That was the best deal since the Manhattan was bought for a box full of trinkets. Collectively, I imagine those characters are worth about a billion dollars today.
@@FizzFop1 Yeah, it's always a shame when something so beloved is all but discarded and thought so little of, be it a copyright or property . It's difficult to compete with a behemoth of a corporation like Marvel or D.C. , but the scrappy fighters like Charlton will always be cherished in our memories.
BTW, "Giordano" is pronounced "jyor-DAH-no". The "jyor' part sounds like the first part of 'George". Mr. Giordano is famous to me through his involvement with DC's Detective Comics and Batman.
Here's the complicated publication history (pre-DC). Volume numbers are those given in the indicia. 1) Dan Garret, rookie cop Character introduced in Mystery Men Comics #1 1940 Series (v1) #1-60 Fox Comics Issues 1-11, 31-60 Holyoke Publishing Issues 12-30 1955 Series (v1) #18-21 Charlton (Fox reprints) Numbering continues from The Thing (Charlton, 1952 series) #17 Numbering continues with Mr. Muscles (Charlton, 1956 series) #22 2) Dan Garrett, archeologist (blue scarab) Character introduced in Blue Beetle #1 (1964 series) 1964 Series (v2) #1-5 Charlton 1965 Series (v3) #50-54 Charlton Numbering continues from Unusual Tales (Charlton, 1955 series) #49 Numbering continues with Ghostly Tales (Charlton, 1966 series) #55 3) Ted Kord, millionaire industrialist scientist (Ditko art) Character introduced in Captain Atom #83-86 1967 Series (v1) #1-5 Charlton
Yeah...back around 1973 - '74 -'75...my older brother and I had nice collections. Marvel, DC, Charlton, Atlas...all kinds. Lots of Issue #1's... Blue Beetle, Hercules, OMAC, PRES...Eternals..it was great time for me as comics go. Now I just watch the movies...(and streaming shows when visiting friends).
My first exposure was a free giveaway of several Charleton books from a mall children's shoe store in the very late 60s or early 70s. Characters included not only the second BB, but the question, and captain atom as well as a doctor specktor, if im not mistaken. O was a confirmed DC guy, did not like the moral ambiguity and "heroes with real world problems" that Marvel was famous for. I did like the Charleton stuff, but even at the time they seemed dated and a bit nostalgic. I remember a few years later discovering E-Man, and loving that short run book. I hope you cover that odd-ball character some time. Maybe along with the Creeper, and Ambush Bug. Great job. I always enjoy your trips into the fringes and dark corners of comics history. Keep it up!
"One punch! One punch!" is all I really knew of Blue Beetle, and that the Charleston Comics characters were what The Watchmen were based on. Thanks for this. Really well put together and entertaining.
I read the Charlton version of the '40s Blue Beetle and didn't think much of it. Then came Steve Ditko's version with Ted Kord and I was hooked. He was and is the best version of the Blue Beetle and way better than the current version DC puts out and will be in the new movie. I have stopped buying comics and don't know the status of Ted. Dead, alive or what? For now all I can do is read and re-read the old comics.
I took time this pandemic to really dig into my collection and inventory with help from CLZ app. In the process, I discovered Captain Atom #83. I had no idea it was the first Ted Kord and I had owned the book for 10+ years at that point. It was included in a pile of books I obtained on a road trip to silver city NM along with a bunch of charlton and dc books from the era. As we all know, Charlton printed cheap ink on poor paper making high quality survivors rare and this one is no exception. I will get it graded although I can’t expect much better than 5.0.
Awesome littlekissrecords! Finding higher grades for those books is damn near impossible. All my copies have been read heavily before I got them...the lack of high grades is proof that these books were read and read over again by those who had them.
I was instantly fascinated (and still am) by all the Charlton characters when they showed up in DC's Crisis On Infinite Earths. I'm glad they've all found a home in the DCU, with many becoming mainstays. Who knew Peacemaker would become the next big thing, too! Always enjoy your content!
@@FizzFop1 and I remember those discount bags of comics, too! Even better was the stack of 20 that didn't have covers and they were just a mystery grab bag! My mom (I have a mom story, too!) Used to buy those for me for summertime car trips, I still have many of them.
Great video! I am a huge fan of the Silver Age Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) as well. I love pretty much anything Steve Ditko created (or co-created), but even so, Blue Beetle holds a special place in my heart. I was also a fan of the 80's DC series by Len Wein and Paris Cullins. It was very old school compared to what DC was moving toward to at the time. BB's run as a member of the Justice League International was pure fun and joy. I never forgave DC fo killing Ted Kord and didn't care for any versions of BB that came out of DC after that.
Great video, brother. I love these comics. I was born in the mid 80s so I didn't grow up with these and didn't know about them until I was an adult but when I read them I loved them. I then collected the Len Wein run and those are also some of my favorite comics. At least until Chronos appears. After that I think it lost a step. I never liked the comedy version of Ted Kord. I like this version. I think it's a shame we didn't get more of those stories at Charlton or DC. I would love to see it return sometime, tho I know it's very unlikely. Most people my age haven't even heard of Charlton Comics and there are not a ton of videos about it so it's nice to see that you're making them
Thanks for the great retrospective! I became a BB fan when I happened upon the Charlton Bullseyse #1 with BB and the Question Team up. Then I saw them in the 2 issues of Americomics! ( If only the one shot of Sentinels of Justice was an on going series!) After that, I collected all the Steve Ditko BB at Comic Con's. I truly think BB has more untapped potential! Thanks for posting!
I love the Americomics BB book. I didn't mention it in this video...but that was originally intended for an issue of Charlton Bullseye--but they stopped printing. In that book, there's a Jack Kirby style story in it. It's great!
I love this version of the Blue Beetle. First came across him when he was in Justice League International. In the UK it was a back up strip in the Superman comic. Followed him and the later Jaime Reyes version. I’m really happy he’s back now and I’m enjoying the latest series with Booster Gold. Great video btw.
Please always ramble about your personal experiences with a comic book character. Your vids are so much better than everyone elses as they are different, not click batey and you show a genuine interest and passion in them and so sharing your history of picking up Blue Beetle comics at a garage sale gives an insight to a real comic book follower. Its good to hear these tales.
Not just another great video, but I think this has been the best one yet! Every scan was perfect, and really helped tell the story. For me the first time I came across the blue beetle was in the first justice league comic I bought, it was one where the JLA is getting their ass kicked by despairo. I remember buying DC comics trading cards and I always thought the blue beetle card was the best, and most dynamic drawing of the set. I always liked how the Ted blue beetle was kinda like Spidey and batman put together.
DC actually once put out a card of the Golden Age Blue Beetle because Roy Thomas was going to use him in All Star Squadron until Crisis On Infinite Earths ruined everything! I still have the card! Roy was going to also use the WW2 set Judomaster as well till Crisis On Infinite Earths ruined everything! Originally there was supposed to like four earths left instead of trying to jam everything into one! It would have been awesome! But instead....!
Wonderful video. I do wish you had mentioned Dan's resurrection in the Americomics issue (and the "evil" BB had a pretty nice revision of the costume, too). Also, you might want to check into BB (and many of the other Charlton action heroes) having slipped into the public domain due to Charlton not doing proper copyright notices (or something like that). That MAY be the reason DC killed Ted and Vic Sage and handed over their costumed identities to others.
Thanks Jim! I had heard that was the reason they killed off Ted Kord and Vic Sage. I didn't know enough about the legalities of it to put it in the video. I didn't want to give people information I wasn't totally on top of.
Ted Kord is the best BB I don't know much of the 1st BB I do sometimes pick up the golden age hero but as for the new one I dont bother getting him but as for the 2nd hero i will pick up a comic and I was glad he made it to the Justice League
I remember somehow a collection of Charlton and DC Comics being left at our house in the 60's. The Charlton storyline and feel were different than DC or Marvel. I gravitated toward them more. Unfortunately, by the time I was old enough to buy my own comics Charlton was impossible to find.
I bought all the Ditko Blue Beetle comics and most of Ditko's Captain Atom stories off the spinner racks at their time of publication. I had followed Ditko there from Marvel and as a kid I preferred Ditko's Blue Beetle over John Romita's Spider-Man also over the later Doctor Strange artists. Ditko also worked on some of the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents books for Tower Comics and later went to DC where he created the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, and Hawk & Dove. Most of the best Ditko art was published in the 1960s in my opinion but I'll admit to being more than a little bit nostalgic since I was still just a young little extra-terrestrial then.
Nothing wrong feeling a bit nostalgic. Ditko was one of the all time greats! I'm currently looking at his panels and page layouts. I might try doing a Ditko video like I did for the Wally Wood panels.
When I was a kid, the first time that I was introduced to the Blue Beetle character was by having watched the Electric Company back in the mid seventies.
