Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130303202540/@comment-1038387-20130304204148

Regulus22 wrote: Zodisgod wrote:

They knew the scarab was of alien origin before the reach appeared right? I'm not surprised they were weary of it and were interested in something that could turn out to be a failsafe if things go bad with it. Not to mention they had to keep up the deception of being caught off guard or else the reach wouldn't have put blue or green in the situation where the scarab could be taken off mode.

They thought it was one of Kord's inventions actually...Which doesn't really make sense given Dan Garrett used it :/

What may account for this is a Captain Atom story Weisman worked on. #20, if I recall correctly. In the story, the government had come up with an origin story for Cap (because they didn't want the time-hop from the Nam war to be publicly known) so they came up with the story that he and Dan Garrett often worked together. Cap told it to Ted, who was excited about it, and became chummy with Cap. So chummy it surprised fellow JLIers Booster and Mister Miracle.

Problem, however, is that Ted Kord knew from the start the origin was false, simply because barely anyone knew how Garrett worked (the government thought he was a gadgeteer like Ted). Dan was never a part of any WWII era team. And with the many heroes that were active in WWII, plus the lack of global media, it's easy to overlook one local hero.