Name: DC Showcase: Blue Beetle
Genre: Animation, Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
Released: 2021-07-27
Duration: 16 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Matt Lanter, Jeff Bennett, Ashly Burch, David Kaye, Tom Kenny

2021·Animation·16m

7.1

★

SUFFERIN' SCARABS! Silver Age Blue Beetle is back! Thrill to the adventures of Ted Kord, alias the Blue Beetle, as he teams up with fellow Charlton Comics heroes Captain Atom, The Questions and Nightshade to battle the nefarious finagler of feelings, Doctor Spectro!

Directed by Milo Neuman

superhero

short film

dc animated movie universe (dcamu)

IMDB

N/A

Cast

Matt Lanter

Blue Beetle (voice)

Jeff Bennett

Captain Atom / Pops (voice)

Ashly Burch

Nightshade (voice)

David Kaye

The Question (voice)

Tom Kenny

Dr. Spectro (voice)

Crew

Rick Morales

Producer

Sam Register

Executive Producer

Robert J. Kral

Music

Steve Ditko

Characters

Popular Reviews

39 reviews

Andy The PizzaBagel

10.0★ · 04/28/25

I don't know what it is but there's something telling me that Blue Beetle might just be this Ted Kord guy....

AbePRO

been reading a lot of JLI and wanted to watch this

Josh

7.0★ · 04/26/26

Cool

Peacemaker

7.0★ · 03/31/26

“which i read about…. in the paper ☝️” made me laugh way too much

Max Oksanen

7.0★ · 03/18/26

Pretty cool. The 60's animations style is brilliant and fits this short very well. Pretty generic otherwise. I wish we got to see ted kord and the question in DC media more.
I rate 7.5/10