Daniel Garret (Earth-Fox)

Dan Garret was born on December 6, 1916 to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Garret and grew up to become a police officer like his father. A neighborhood pharmacist named Doctor Franz believed Garret to be a man of strong moral character and so he provided him with his two greatest inventions: a bulletproof chainmail costume woven with a silk overlay and Vitamin 2-X which greatly increased Garret's strength and durability. Armed with these items, Garret assumed the costumed guise of the Blue Beetle. For a time in the 1940s, the Blue Beetle worked with a sidekick called Sparky.

Powers and Abilities

Powers

Abilities

Law
Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)

Paraphernalia

Equipment

Vitamin 2-X

Notes

This version of Dan Garret is the original Golden Age version, whose origin is dramatically different from his Silver Age counterpart, Dan Garrett (note the difference in spelling, although some comics mistakenly spell the original version as "Garrett"). While this version appeared in Fox Features Syndicate, Holyoke Publishing, and some Charlton comics, he never appeared in any DC Comics titles. The updated Dan Garrett debuted in Blue Beetle (Volume 3) #1.
An unpublished Blue Beetle story titled "To Live Again!" was intended to be published by Charlton in the Charlton Bullseye magazine (1981-1982). This story would have connected the Golden Age Garret and Silver Age Garrett: they would have been the same person, revived again and again by some unknown gods, who changed his background every time. The magazine was cancelled before this story could be included. During the brief time AC Comics held the license to the character in 1983, they published the story in Americomics #3. DC acquired the Charlton characters the same year and ignored AC's publications.
This version of Blue Beetle, including all history and corresponding appearances, was erased from existence following the collapse of the original Multiverse in the 1985–1986 Crisis on Infinite Earths event and later restored following the rebirth of the infinite Multiverse during the 2022-2023 Dark Crisis event. Even though other versions of the character may have appeared, this information does not apply to those versions.

Daniel Garret (Earth-Fox)

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