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Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes)
Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) is a fictional character who appears in several comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appears in Infinite Crisis #3 (Feb. 2006). He was created by writers Keith Giffen and John Rogers, along with artist Cully Hamner.
Jaime Reyes is the third character to assume the mantle of Blue Beetle, but he is substantially different from his predecessors. Introduced in 1939, the original Blue Beetle, Dan Garret, was a Fox Comics police officer who fought crime with superpowers gained by ingesting Vitamin 2X. A revamped version of this character, archaeologist Dan Garrett, introduced in 1964 by Charlton Comics drew mystical abilities from an ancient Egyptian scarab. Published by Charlton Comics and later DC, 1966 creation Ted Kord was Garrett's student who continued his legacy of costumed crime-fighting, although he had no superpowers. DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006 retconned and expanded upon the Blue Beetle mythos. Revealed to be alien in origin, the scarab bonds with Reyes and provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor shortly after Kord's death. Though only a teenager, Reyes quickly forms a working relationship with Kord's former teammate and best friend Booster Gold and is inducted into the Teen Titans.
Blue Beetle's most recent incarnation, Reyes is also the most-well represented Blue Beetle in adaptations, appearing in both animated and live action forms in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice and Smallville.
In Infinite Crisis #5 (March 2006), Reyes became Blue Beetle's third incarnation. His own monthly series debuted two months later with Blue Beetle (vol. 8) #1 (May 2006); it was initially written by Keith Giffen and John Rogers, with artist Cully Hamner. Giffen left before issue #10 and Rogers took over full writing duties, joined by new artist Rafael Albuquerque. Rogers left in issue #25 to concentrate on his television series Leverage.
After a couple of fill-in issues, Matt Sturges became the main writer in issue #29 but the series was canceled with last issue #36 in February 2009. Editor Dan DiDio put the cancellation down to poor sales and said that Blue Beetle was "a book that we started with very high expectations, but it lost its audience along the way."
On March 12, 2009, DiDio announced that the character would return in June 2009 as a "co-feature" of the more popular Booster Gold comic.
Jaime lives in El Paso, Texas with his father, mother and little sister; his father owns a garage. Jaime offers to help his father at the garage, but his father feels Jaime should study and enjoy his childhood for as long as he can. Jaime has an acute sense of responsibility for his family and friends, though he complains about having to sort out their various problems. He derives strength and courage from his family's support.
Links:
Wikipedia>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Reyes
DC Comics Database>dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jaime_Reyes
Comic Vine>www.comicvine.com/blue-beetle/4005-4438/
Copyright Owner/Official Site
DC Comics>www.dccomics.com/characters/blue-beetle
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Jaime Reyes is the third character to assume the mantle of Blue Beetle, but he is substantially different from his predecessors. Introduced in 1939, the original Blue Beetle, Dan Garret, was a Fox Comics police officer who fought crime with superpowers gained by ingesting Vitamin 2X. A revamped version of this character, archaeologist Dan Garrett, introduced in 1964 by Charlton Comics drew mystical abilities from an ancient Egyptian scarab. Published by Charlton Comics and later DC, 1966 creation Ted Kord was Garrett's student who continued his legacy of costumed crime-fighting, although he had no superpowers. DC's introduction of Jaime Reyes in 2006 retconned and expanded upon the Blue Beetle mythos. Revealed to be alien in origin, the scarab bonds with Reyes and provides him with a suit of extraterrestrial armor shortly after Kord's death. Though only a teenager, Reyes quickly forms a working relationship with Kord's former teammate and best friend Booster Gold and is inducted into the Teen Titans.
Blue Beetle's most recent incarnation, Reyes is also the most-well represented Blue Beetle in adaptations, appearing in both animated and live action forms in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Young Justice and Smallville.
In Infinite Crisis #5 (March 2006), Reyes became Blue Beetle's third incarnation. His own monthly series debuted two months later with Blue Beetle (vol. 8) #1 (May 2006); it was initially written by Keith Giffen and John Rogers, with artist Cully Hamner. Giffen left before issue #10 and Rogers took over full writing duties, joined by new artist Rafael Albuquerque. Rogers left in issue #25 to concentrate on his television series Leverage.
After a couple of fill-in issues, Matt Sturges became the main writer in issue #29 but the series was canceled with last issue #36 in February 2009. Editor Dan DiDio put the cancellation down to poor sales and said that Blue Beetle was "a book that we started with very high expectations, but it lost its audience along the way."
On March 12, 2009, DiDio announced that the character would return in June 2009 as a "co-feature" of the more popular Booster Gold comic.
Jaime lives in El Paso, Texas with his father, mother and little sister; his father owns a garage. Jaime offers to help his father at the garage, but his father feels Jaime should study and enjoy his childhood for as long as he can. Jaime has an acute sense of responsibility for his family and friends, though he complains about having to sort out their various problems. He derives strength and courage from his family's support.
Links:
Wikipedia>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Reyes
DC Comics Database>dc.wikia.com/wiki/Jaime_Reyes
Comic Vine>www.comicvine.com/blue-beetle/4005-4438/
Copyright Owner/Official Site
DC Comics>www.dccomics.com/characters/blue-beetle
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