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Ted Kord had always had a head for science and a penchant for taking risks. So, when he had to stop his uncle from taking over the world, he took it all in stride. What he didn't expect was to become a super-hero because of it. During the confrontation with his uncle, Ted discovered his old archaeology professor, Dan Garrett, was the original Blue Beetle. Fatally wounded during the battle, Garrett asked Ted to carry on as the Blue Beetle. And Ted has done just that -- albeit in his own unique, and often humorous, style.

Possessing no super-powers, the Blue Beetle relies solely on his wits and technical skills. Pilot extraordinaire and master inventor, Blue Beetle has armed himself with all kinds of crime-fighting gadgets, including a sidearm that shoots out blasts of compressed air or bright strobe flashes and "frictionless foam," a gooey substance which makes any surface incredibly slick. His pride and joy is the Bug, a solar-powered ship that can travel both by air and underwater.

After uncovering a secret plot to eliminate metahumans, particularly his colleagues in the JLA, Blue Beetle recently met a heroic end via a gunshot to the head administered by Maxwell Lord, the new Black King of the covert operation known as Checkmate.

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