Dan Garret was the son of a police officer killed by a criminal. Garret later donned a bulletproof blue costume (described by Garret as being chain-mail made of a cellulose material which was "as thin and light as silk but stronger than steel" and temporarily gained superhuman strength and stamina by ingesting the mysterious "Vitamin 2X". The Blue Beetle would use his signature scarab symbol to bedevil criminals / Dan Garrett, archaeologist, who obtained a number of superhuman powers (including super strength and vision, flight, and the ability to generate energy blasts) from a mystical
scarab he found during a dig in Egypt , where it had been used to imprison an evil mummified Pharaoh. He would transform into the Blue Beetle by saying the words "Kaji Dha!" / Ted Kord, a former student of Dan Garrett. Kord and Garrett were investigating Kord's Uncle Jarvis when they learned Jarvis was working to create an army of androids to take over Earth. Garrett changed into Blue Beetle, but was killed in battle. As he died, he passed on to Kord the responsibility of being Blue Beetle, but was unable to pass on the mystical scarab.
Ted had the scarab for some time, but never used it. Blue Beetle discovered a renewed Checkmate organization led by Maxwell Lord, with a database containing information on every metahuman on Earth. He was captured and executed with a single gunshot to the head. / Jaime Reyes, The Scarab came to earth Earth in El Paso, Texas , where Jaime picked it up. Not long after, Booster Gold appeared at Jaime's house to retrieve it, but it had fused itself to Jaime's spine while he was sleeping.

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