Golden Age Blue Beetle!

The Blue Beetle was first born in Mystery Men Comics #1 from Fox Publications in 1939. He proved a popular feature, and the hard-fisted hero got his own title a year later. There is debate about who created Blue Beetle, though some sources list Will Eisner as the first writer with Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski as the first artist. Blue Beetle was a street-level mystery man, a cop who used special vitamins to gain his powers and wore armor to fight crime. 

Here is the Golden Age Blue Beetle's origin story from the pages of the debut issue of Mystery Men Comics. Notice of course that the concept was not fully developed in this first story. 

As the years rolled by, the source of Dan Garret's powers was altered and he became increasingly powerful, more Superman than Spirit. More Golden Age Blue Beetle tomorrow. 

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