Blue Beetle

About

Blue Beetle is a DC Comics superhero comic book created in 1939 by Charles Nicholas Wojtkoski. The Blue Beetle is a hero serving both as a solo adventurer and as part of teams like the Justice League and Teen Titans. Throughout the title's history, there have been numerous Blue Beetles, including Dan Garrett, Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes. Warner Bros. studios is producing a film adaptation of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle starring Xolo Maridueña, set to be released theatrically on August 18th, 2023.

History

In August 1939, the character Blue Beetle^[1] premiered in issue #1 of Mystery Men Comics (shown below, left) and continued through issue #31. The Blue Beetle is a hero chosen by Scarab as its symbiotic host, attaching itself to his spine and giving him a bio-mechanical blue suit of armor with superpowers. The superhero received his own title issue in the same year published by Fox Feature Syndicate^[2] (seen below, right).

The most recent Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes, was introduced by DC Comics on December 15th, 2005, in "Infinite Crisis #3"^[3] (shown below). The Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle series ran from 2006 to 2009.

Film Adaptation

On December 16th, 2021, Warner Bros. studios announced^[4] a film adaptation of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle. The film is set to be released on August 18th, 2023 and the first trailer was revealed on YouTube^[5] on April 3rd, 2023, receiving 1.1 million views and 124,000 likes in five hours (seen below).

Blue Beetle's trailer sparked excitement and memes over DC’s first live-action Latino superhero, as Jaime Reyes is of Mexican American heritage and lives in El Paso, Texas. For instance, Twitter^[6] user @marquezinecom shared an edited video of the trailer with a crowd hearing the moment Brazilian actress Bruna Marquenize, who plays the female lead and love interest, Penny, appears in the trailer. The post garnered 52,100 views and 4,500 likes in five hours (seen below).

A gente assim quando a Bruna Marquezine apareceu no trailer😭😭 #BlueBeetle pic.twitter.com/7oZ4cEfPY5

— Marquezine Comunicações (@marquezinecom) April 3, 2023

Fandom

On October 10th, 2013, the /r/BlueBeetle^[7] subreddit launched. As of April 2023, the group has amassed more than 1,300 members. The verified Instagram^[8] account for the 2023 Blue Beetle film has accumulated 43,500 followers in five months.

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