The Blue Battle
February 29, 2008 by The Fortress Keeper
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 …
My “Modern Comics” reprint of this issue may be just a reprint, but it’s one of the most precious things in my collection.
Kick that Squid’s ass!
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Aw heck, I always thought that Beetle was competent. It was just hanging out with Booster all the time that rotted his brain cells.
Ditko > everyone