User blog comment:Ultimate Heatblast/Amalgamation/@comment-1635895-20120510054729/@comment-1038387-20120511215604

It wasn't the Ted Kord Blue Beetle. Ted Kord was very close to being DC's Spider-Man, a hobbyist, wisecracking, athletic, bug-themed guy (though Ted didn't have any powers, nor any of Pete's money problems). They also both liked hanging upside down.