It’s time for Friday Night Fights, and as promised the Keeper has returned with his champion of the moment …
Ted Kord, The Silver-Age Blue Beetle.
Nowadays, the DC hive-mind has chosen to portray Kord as a lovable - but somewhat incompetent - hero who uncovered the OMAC conspiracy and paid the ultimate price.
That’s all well and good, but we’ll always prefer creator Steve Ditko’s version of the character, who lept about and kicked criminal @$$ as effectively as a certain friendly neighborhood arachnid.
Hey, the Charlton Blue Beetle even teamed up with Vic Sage to defend Objectivist principles against The Destroyer Of Heroes!
Incompetent? Ted Kord sounds more like your classic smilin’ two-fisted hero to us.
Hopefully, Bahlactus will agree …
