YOUNG JUSTICE: INVASION: DAN GARRET/BLUE BEETLE

WB Animation Character Design, YOUNG JUSTICE: INVASION, Dan Garret.

In the YOUNG JUSTICE Season Two episode entitled, "Intervention," it is revealed to Jaime Reyes the true origins of the Blue Beetle scarab, and its presence on Earth. Via flashback, we see that Robin and Batgirl hacked the computer files of the late Ted Kord to learn that the scarab had been discovered by archaeologist Dan Garret on a dig in Bialya in the late 1930s. Believing the scarab to be an ancient mystical artifact, Garret used it to become the "original" Blue Beetle.