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Blue Beetle is the name of three superheroes appearing 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 Blue Beetle is DC Comics, which bought the rights to the character in 1983, using the name for three distinct characters over the years.
Blue Beetle was released on digital download on September 26, 2023, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray, and DVD on October 31, by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. [67] The film became available for streaming on Max , the successor to HBO Max, on November 17, 2023, [ 68 ] where it debuted as the most streamed film on the platform in the United States.
Blue Beetle is a long running comic book series featuring the superhero of the same name.Throughout its publication, the series has had three main characters who have each assumed the mantle of the Blue Beetle: Dan Garret, Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes.
Ad for The Blue Beetle radio series. Dan Garret / Blue Beetle appears in a self-titled CBS Radio serial, which ran from May 15, 1940, to September 13, 1940, and initially starred Frank Lovejoy in the title role. [28] According to Christopher Irving, "Lovejoy brought a maniacal, almost sadistic, cackle to the character.
During this period, Ted Kord had his own Blue Beetle series, written by Len Wein, [4] which ran for 24 issues from June 1986 to May 1988. Also published during this time was Secret Origins #2 (cover illustrated by Gil Kane ), which explained the origins and careers of the Ted Kord and Dan Garrett Blue Beetles in the post-Crisis continuity .
The Blue Beetle scarab is grafted onto Jaime Reyes's spine and can manifest a number of powers of its own volition, an act usually accompanied by blue energy emitted by the scarab's "antennae". Over the course of the first year of his ongoing series, Jaime had little, if any, control over those powers, but slowly asserts himself.
Ramario Xolo Ramirez (born June 9, 2001), known professionally as Xolo Maridueña [1] (Spanish: [ˈʃolo maɾiˈðweɲa]), is an American actor.His roles include Victor Graham in the NBC drama Parenthood (2012–2015), Miguel Diaz in the Netflix action series Cobra Kai (2018–2025), and Jaime Reyes / Blue Beetle in the DC Comics superhero film Blue Beetle (2023).
Blue Beetle was released on August 18, 2023 to positive reviews for Maridueña's performance, action scenes, themes, and Soto's directing, but was a commercial disappointment. Despite the poor box office, Vanity Fair named it one of the best films of 2023 [ 10 ] and received two nominations at the 51st Saturn Awards , winning one.