Hi @DCFanArtClub! August is here and it brings with it another DC movie in theaters. This time it is none other than The Blue Beetle on August 18!!
The movie features the current Blue Beetle Jamie Reyes, but I figured we could pull in all of the Charlton Heroes for our spotlight this month.
Who are the Charlton Heroes (I’m guessing someone was thinking that question)??
Charlton Comics was founded all the way back in 1945 and went out of business in 1986. At that time, DC bought the rights to all of the Charlton Action Heroes which included familiar names such as Captain Atom, The Question, Blue Beetle, Peacemaker, Nightshade, Thunderbolt, Judomaster and Sarge Steel.
Many of the characters were created by the legendary Steve Ditko. Over the years DC has introduced a new generation to follow in the footsteps of the original characters. Jaime Reyes followed Ted Kord as the Blue Beetle and Renee Montoya followed Vic Sage as the Question, just to name a couple. For our purposes, any version of the characters is eligible.
One other claim to fame for the Charlton Heroes is that Alan Moore originally wanted to use them in Watchmen, but when DC saw what he planned to do to them, they convinced him to create all new characters instead. Nite Owl was based on Blue Beetle, Rorschach was based on The Question, Dr Manhattan was Captain Atom…you get the idea. Pretty cool, huh?
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