When Steve Ditko left the halls of Marvel to pursue his singular path in the comic book business, he landed at Charlton. Actually he hardly left the little Derby company which offered him a great deal of work throughout his career. What he brought to Charlton after the his departure from Spider-Man was another buggy hero, a revised version of the venerable Blue Beetle. And the Ted Kord version has pretty much stuck and become arguably the most successful of the Action Heroes after landing at DC during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
Now that does not mean I have no regard for the earlier Dan Garrett version of the hero that Charlton offered, I do indeed.
But there's no denying despite some strengths of simplicity in the earlier look, that the design of the Ditko version of the Blue Beetle is among the finest ever rendered in the history of comic books. It is simply and outstanding look.
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