“Super Powers”- Blue Beetle/Bug

by Ben Hernandez

I told you I’ve been collecting the Super Powers re-releases since they came to Walmart “New for ‘22”.

Finally, after a year Walmart just added new Wave 7 Super Powers toys to the pegs, and I caught up with the Blue Beetle (and others).

I was so happy to see the Blue Beetle especially.

When I was like 8 or 9, I had a whole stack of Blue Beetle comics I took with me to read in the car on the way to and from little league.

I remember never thinking it’d be possible to have him or his Bug (ship) from the comics:

Now I have them both — unopened:

And also loose, out of the package:

Then came an opportunity to obtain from an online seller a custom 3D-printed BB gun accessory:

And now I have it!

Read more here about my journey to assemble Justice League ’87 in The Bug™!

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