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Beetle (comics)

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Beetle
File:Abner Jenkins as the Beetle (2019).webp
Abner Jenkins / Beetle battling Peter Parker / Spider-Man.
Textless variant cover to X-Force vol. 5 #4 (March 2019).
Art by Pepe Larraz.
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceAbner Jenkins:
Strange Tales #123 (August 1964)
Leila Davis:
Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1 (May 1991)
Three Beetles:
Thunderbolts #103 (August 2006)
Janice Lincoln:
Captain America #607 (August 2010)
Hobgoblin's Beetle:
The Amazing Spider-Man #6 (November 2014)
Created byAbner Jenkins:
Stan Lee (writer)
Carl Burgos (artist)
Leila Davis:
Danny Fingeroth
Al Milgrom
Three Beetles:
Fabian Nicieza
Tom Grummett
Janice Lincoln:
Ed Brubaker
Jackson Butch Guice
Hobgoblin's Beetle:
Dan Slott
CharactersAbner Jenkins
Leila Davis
Janice Lincoln

The Beetle is the name of several characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The first incarnation of the Beetle, Abner Jenkins, first appeared in Strange Tales #123 (August 1964).[1] The second incarnation, Leila Davis, debuted in Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1 (May 1991).[2] The third incarnation, a team composed of Joaquim Robichaux, Elizabeth Vaughn, and Gary Quinn, made their first appearance in Thunderbolts #103 (August 2006). The fourth incarnation, Janice Lincoln, debuted in Captain America #607 (August 2010).[3]

Publication history[edit]

Abner Jenkins[edit]

Abner Jenkins debuted under the codename of the Beetle in Strange Tales #123 (August 1964),[4] created by writer Stan Lee and artist Carl Burgos.[5] He battled the Human Torch and Spider-Man in The Amazing Spider-Man #21 (January 1965).[6] Abner Jenkins switched to the second armor in Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #59 (October 1981). It would be in use until Thunderbolts #1 (April 1997) when his alter ego was changed to MACH-1.

Leila Davis[edit]

Leila Davis took the mantle of the Bettle in Thunderbolts #35 (February 2000). This version resembled a walking tank and would be used by Abner Jenkins and the second incarnation Leila Davis. This version was crushed by Graviton who killed Davis who was still inside at the time. The Beetle armor would go unused after her death until Thunderbolts #103 (August 2006). All three versions were stolen and used by three college students. The individual names of these characters were not revealed in this initial appearance.

Janice Lincoln[edit]

Janice Lincoln debuted as the Beetle in Captain America #607 (August 2010),[7] created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Jackson Guice. She appeared in the 2013 The Superior Foes of Spider-Man series.[8][9] She appeared in the 2018 The Amazing Spider-Man series.[10][11][12]

Fictional character biography[edit]

Abner Jenkins[edit]

The first Beetle is Abner Jenkins. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Carl Burgos,[5] the character first appeared in Strange Tales #123 (August 1964).[4]

Criminal career[edit]

Abner Ronald "Abe" Jenkins was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a was a master mechanic at an aircraft parts factory. Jenkins became tired of his job and refuse the low pay. He left his career to pursue life as an adventurer seeking wealth and fame as the Beetle.[13]

The Beetle used his considerable mechanical knowledge to build an armor-plated, strength-augmenting suit, a pair of gravity-defying wings, suction-fingered gloves, and a cybernetic control helmet. He believed a victory over half the Fantastic Four would make him an overnight sensation. He chose to lure the Human Torch and the Thing into battle. However, Thing and Human Torch defeated and sent him to prison.[13]

Abenr Jenkins was paroled a short time later and sought revenge on the Human Torch. However, he found himself in battle with Spider-Man instead. He kidnapped Human Torch's girlfriend. Human Torch briefly battled Spider-Man, thinking he was in league with the Beetle. Once again, with Human Torch's help, he was defeated after a cage of high-temperature flame was created around him. He was jailed once more.[14] Upon his release, he decided to forego petty revenge and concentrated on the acquisition of wealth. At one point, the Beetle was mentally dominated and recruited by the Collector to serve as his unwilling agent. Under the Collector's domination, Beetle faced the Avengers.[15] He also battled Daredevil.[16] He fought him again alongside Gladiator.[17] The Beetle fought Spider-Man again.[18]

He later became a member of the group of supervillains who briefly posed as the Defenders to confuse the authorities and earn a bit of public trust.[19]

Losing every battle against costumed crime-fighters and failing to accumulate very much wealth, the Beetle offered his services to underworld financier Justin Hammer, who kept various superhuman criminals on retainers. His offer accepted, the Beetle was dispatched against the original Iron Man, as part of a battalion of costumed criminals. His Beetle armor was severely damaged by Iron Man during the fight.[20]

Abner Jenkins then invested all of the capital he could acquire into the modification and refinement of his Beetle armor. With the Tinkerer's assistance, he produced a new battle-suit with far greater capacities than his old one. Before launching his comeback, Beetle recruited the criminal Ringer to put Spider-Man through his paces. The Beetle wished to study Spider-Man's fighting style and program it into a computer system so he could anticipate his opponent's moves. Despite his preparations and new battle-suit, the Beetle was again defeated by Spider-Man.[21] He was later freed from prison by Egghead who recruited him for his Masters of Evil organization. Beetle and other Masters of Evil were defeated by the Avengers and arrested.[22] Justin Hammer then commissioned Beetle, Blizzard II and Blacklash to kill Clayton Wilson, but Iron Man defeated them.[23] Soon thereafter, Beetle battled Iron Man again, but this time all portions of the Beetle's battle armor using Stark technology were fused.[24]

Beetle organized his own team of super-villainous mercenaries called the Sinister Syndicate, which ran afoul of Spider-Man.[25][26]

As a member of the Thunderbolts[edit]

When most of Earth's costumed adventurers, including the then-core membership of the Avengers and Fantastic Four, seemingly died battling Onslaught, Baron Helmut Zemo recruited Jenkins and a number of other villains to trick the world into believing they were heroes called the Thunderbolts. Jenkins adopted the guise of "MACH-1".[27] He was the first member of the team to do something because it was right rather than because it benefited the plan, providing Spider-Man with evidence to clear his name after an android framed the web-swinger for a series of thefts after the two were forced to fight the rest of the Thunderbolts under mind-control and Spider-Man saved Jenkins' life.[28] Zemo's plan ultimately failed, but when Jenkins and other members began to enjoy the adulation and personal satisfaction from being heroes, they decided to try making the Thunderbolts a legitimate team. When Hawkeye took over the group's leadership, he convinced Jenkins to serve out the remainder of his prison term as a show of good faith to the public,[29] but another criminal used the Beetle guise to frame him. While at Seagate, Jenkins coped with resentment and occasional assaults from other super-criminals and refused a chance to participate in a mass escape organized by his old employer Justin Hammer. Instead, Jenkins foiled the breakout, an act which brought him to the attention of the government's Commission on Superhuman Activities (CSA).[30] They recruited Jenkins to participate in a sting operation aimed at Hammer. Jenkins agreed, using a newly designed armor to operate as the Beetle once more. The activities of the new Beetle attracted the attention of the Thunderbolts. Fearing the CSA might not honor the terms of their bargain, Jenkins fled CSA custody after completing the operation and rejoined the Thunderbolts. Hawkeye blackmailed the CSA into allowing Jenkins to remain free, even though the government's records would list Jenkins as still being in prison, in exchange for keeping the CSA's exploitation of Jenkins's secret.[31]

Jenkins created the "MACH-2" battle-suit after modifying his MACH-1 armor with the aid of Techno.[31] Techno also altered Jenkins's physical appearance using "dermaplasty" technology since the public was not supposed to know MACH-2 was Jenkins, and the mischievous Techno had some fun at Jenkins's expense by giving him the features of an African American.[31]

When the Thunderbolts uncovered and thwarted a CSA-connected conspiracy to exterminate all superhumans, Hawkeye blackmailed the CSA into giving the Thunderbolts full pardons in exchange for the group's silence; however, CSA agent Henry Peter Gyrich insisted that he would not go along with the deal unless Hawkeye went to prison for his technically illegal vigilante activities as a member of the Thunderbolts. Hawkeye agreed, despite the protests of his teammates, and surrendered to federal custody. Most of the rest of the Thunderbolts, including MACH-2 and Songbird, were pardoned and released. However, as part of the terms of their deal, they were forbidden from public use of superhuman powers or costumed identities. MACH-2 and Songbird turned their equipment over to the authorities and started new civilian lives in the town of Burton Canyon, Colorado as Abe Jenkins and Melissa Gold.[32]

Ironically, Jenkins found himself employment with the Burton Canyon police department as a tech support specialist.[33]Unfortunately, their quiet lives were shattered when the super-criminal Graviton launched his latest attempt at world conquest in Burton Canyon, imprisoning the world's superheroes and reshaping the planet in his own image. Despite their reluctance to risk their newfound freedom, Jenkins and Songbird agreed to join Citizen V (secretly Baron Zemo controlling Citizen V's body) in attacking Graviton as part of a new team of Thunderbolts. Jenkins was given new armor provided by Citizen V's financiers, the V-Battalion, and called himself "MACH-3". Graviton was defeated and the world was saved, but MACH-3 and the other Thunderbolts disappeared in an implosion created by the dying Graviton's power, with the exception of Songbird who appeared left behind as the sole survivor.[volume & issue needed]

On counter earth[edit]

On Counter-Earth, the team continued to band together, searching for a way to return to their own world and beginning to establish themselves as the leading superheroes of the troubled Counter-Earth.[volume & issue needed]

After a failed attempt to escape to the real Earth, the team entered into an uneasy alliance with their original leader, Baron Zemo, in an ongoing effort to save Counter-Earth from the various ills plaguing that alternate world. The Thunderbolts went on to revive the flying city of Attilan and populate it with refugees and survivors of the war-torn and nearly destroyed world. The Thunderbolts became renowned for their heroism and efforts to solve the world's problems. They were hailed by many to be the world's saviors. Nevertheless, Jenkins appeared to be going through the motions; his heart being elsewhere as his relationship with Songbird was thought to be lost.[volume & issue needed]

On Counter-Earth, Zemo's Thunderbolts had encountered the effects of a white hole spawned from an abandoned spacecraft, as its engine's radiation began eating Earth from the inside. The Thunderbolts embarked on a plan to combine their powers to punt the alien ship off the Earth and sever the link between the worlds. However, to complete this plan, the Thunderbolts needed to be inside the engine-spawned void to keep it clear of the real Earth as it closed. By so doing, they would reemerge from the void on the real Earth, forfeiting their roles and place on Counter-Earth. Emerging from the void, the Thunderbolts encountered their former teammates Hawkeye and Songbird who had formed their own version of the Thunderbolts who were similarly engaged with the void from the real Earth's counterpart of the spaceship. The two teams of Thunderbolts combined forces to plug the void and shunt the alien ship from Earth. Jenkins's reunion with Songbird was short-lived. Despite their feelings for each other, Jenkins left Songbird, once more remanding himself to police custody to serve the remainder of his sentence.[volume & issue needed]

Back on Earth[edit]

For six months, Jenkins had been a model prisoner at Parsons Minimum Security prison in Illinois. He has since had his skin and face changed back to his original appearance, and has resumed contact with Songbird. Abe was recently approached by the Avengers on finding if they had been staying legit despite their suspicions. Abe told them they would have to stop Baron Zemo before he launched Project: Liberation, but that Moonstone was the one to really worry about. After Moonstone revealed her plans, Abe had Jolt contacted to help the Avengers and Thunderbolts stop her.[volume & issue needed]

Following the conclusion to the battle, Abe was finally paroled from jail and made an announcement that he was reforming the Thunderbolts and that any former villains or super-powered individuals who wanted a second chance would be allowed to join. He found himself the group's leader and lover to Songbird. Things continued to go crazy when the Thunderbolts kept being put into tough situations as Baron Wolfgang von Strucker threw new challenges to keep them busy, including adding Speed Demon to the team as a spy and allowing Fathom Five to attack New York City. Things finally came together when Abe revealed he always intended to take down Strucker. They succeeded in defeating HYDRA's scheme to destroy all of Manhattan, but Strucker managed to escape.[volume & issue needed]

Jenkins and the Fixer help Songbird and Black Widow escape from Norman Osborn and some H.A.M.M.E.R. agents.[34]

Later, Mach-V works at The Raft as the Head of Security. He brings Luke Cage below sea level where they are introduced to Man-Thing who will serve as the Thunderbolts' mode of transportation.[35] Along with Songbird and Fixer, he frequently serves as a trusted chaperone for Cage's Thunderbolts team.

During the Standoff at Pleasant Hill, MACH-VII is working with S.H.I.E.L.D.[36][37] Afterward, MACH-VII became MACH-X and joined with Winter Soldier's new team of Thunderbolts.[38]

Abe briefly rekindles his romance with Songbird when she joins the Winter Soldier's Thunderbolts team (in the aftermath of Civil War II). However, in the lead up the Secret Empire event, Baron Zemo attacks the Thunderbolts with a new incarnation of the Masters of Evil. Songbird and Abe resist Zemo's offer to join up with him and the rising Hydra empire and, in the fallout of their confrontation, Songbird is left searching the snowy wasteland for Abe's missing body.[39]

Leila Davis[edit]

The second Beetle is Leila Davis. Created by writer Danny Fingeroth and artist Al Milgrom, the character debuted in Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #1 (May 1991).

Leila Davis was the widow of minor supervillain Ringer.[40] Her husband was manipulated by Abner Jenkins into a life of crime that included multiple conflicts with Spider-Man, he was shot by the anti-hero Scourge. Davis vows revenge on all three. She began her criminal career as a driver for the super villain Sinister Syndicate team.[41]

Leila is introduced as the widow of the Ringer (Anthony Davis). After Anthony is manipulated by Abner Jenkins into a life of crime that included multiple conflicts with Spider-Man, he was shot by the anti-hero Scourge. Leila vows revenge on all three. She joins the Sinister Syndicate team led by Jenkins to get close to him. She also serves as the group's getaway driver.[42]

She began dating Speed Demon once Boomerang was captured by Spider-Man on the first mission of the group. Eventually, the Shocker engineers a breakout for Boomerang and the team fractures, with Boomerang, Rhino and Davis, who is using her husband's old weapons battling the Beetle, Speed Demon and Hydro-Man in the middle of New York City. After attempting to kill the Beetle, Davis is disarmed by Spider-Man and arrested along with Jenkins and Boomerang.[43]

Sometime later, Leila Davis is paroled from prison and immediately returns to her old ways. Donning a new red and black suit of weaponized armor and referring to herself as Hardshell, she allies with Boomerang, Rhino and the Vulture. The group becomes involved in a massive fight that also involves Stegron, Doctor Octopus, Swarm, the Answer, Jenkins and Spider-Man, with each party trying to gain control of an experimental gun. Spider-Man eventually stood victorious and most of the costumed criminals are taken into custody. Davis is teleported away by her husband, Ringer, who had survived being shot by Scourge, and had been turned into the cyborg Strikeback by the criminal organization A.I.M.[44]

She reappears years later taking on the Thunderbolts team (which a reformed Jenkins helped found), ironically now referring to herself as the "Beetle". She is wearing a tank-like exoskeleton painted in the same paint scheme as both of Jenkins' previous Beetle costumes—a new iteration of the Beetle armor that Jenkins himself had designed while working for the Commission on Superhuman Activities.[45]

As the second Beetle, Leila eventually joins the group known as the Redeemers, which includes former members of the Thunderbolts.[46] When her true identity is revealed to the rest of her teammates, she tells them that her husband died some time earlier due to his body breaking down due to his cyborg enhancements.[47]

The group soon encounters the powerful super villain Graviton, and quickly into the fight he nonchalantly uses his gravity powers to crush the Beetle armor, with Leila inside, into a small cube, killing her instantly.[48]

The three Beetles[edit]

The third Beetle is a group compose of Joaquim Robichaux, Elizabeth Vaughn and Gary Quinn.[49] Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Tom Grummett, the characters made their first appearance in Thunderbolts #103 (August 2006).

Three college students stole the previous incarnations of the Beetle armor during Marvel's Civil War event.[50] The individual piloting the first version was called Joaquim and the person in the second version was revealed to be female. No other information was revealed about them in their subsequent appearances in Thunderbolts.[51]

They defend the city of Dallas against a plot by the Grandmaster as members of an enlarged Thunderbolts team recruited by Baron Zemo and consisting of numerous supervillains.[volume & issue needed] When the Overmind lets the full power of the Wellspring loose when he attempts to revive Baron Zemo, the defenders of Sydney and Dallas are overrun, with the three Beetles presumably among them.[volume & issue needed]

The three Beetles were identified among the 142 registered superheroes who appear on the cover of the comic book Avengers: The Initiative #1.[52]

Janice Lincoln[edit]

Main article: Janice Lincoln

The fourth Beetle is Janice Lincoln. Created by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Jackson Guice, the character debuted in Captain America #607 (August 2010).

Janice Lincoln is the daughter of the supervillain Tombstone.[53][54] Her mother was an ex-girlfriend of Tombstone during his early days in organized crime. Janice grew up with her father showing up sporadically, usually to help out with bills and schooling. Janice idolized her father and his criminal activities,[55] however, she was forbidden to take part in them.[56][57]

After building a successful career as a defense attorney,[58] she was appointed to defend Baron Zemo, at which point she volunteered to work for him as the new Beetle. Janice's armor was also revealed to have been built by the Fixer.[59] Helmut Zemo and the Fixer provided Janice with the Beetle armor and a nano-virus as part of their plan to destroy the new Captain America.[55] She emerges from the rubble of an explosion she causes to confront Captain America (Bucky) and Black Widow.[60] The new Beetle fights Bucky and Black Widow in a short battle and is defeated. Bucky unmasks her, and realizes she is culpable in using the nano-virus on him. She is imprisoned in The Raft, where she reveals that she knows Captain America and Bucky are one and the same. While Janice resists Bucky and the Widow's attempts to interrogate her for the identity of her employer, the Fixer asks Zemo whether they should punish her for her failure. Zemo is merciful, saying that she knows no information that would hurt them. Janice is left to her own devices, and the heroes still manage to piece together Zemo's identity. However, Zemo still exposes Captain America's true identity to the general public.[61]

As part of the Marvel NOW! event, she is now a member of Boomerang's Sinister Six.[62] After being defeated by Superior Spider-Man (Otto Octavius's mind in Peter Parker's body), Boomerang is secretly contracted by the Chameleon to recover the head of former Maggia leader Silvermane from the Owl. To this end, Boomerang deceives the team into agreeing to help him.[63] However, after the original Beetle, the reformed Abe Jenkins, is assigned to be Boomerang's parole officer, the team vote him out and Janice as their new team leader. Speed Demon's vote is motivated by his unrequited attraction for her. The others note that the Beetle becomes more despotic as team leader, but attribute this as a reaction to the pressure to succeed and avoid incarceration. Boomerang secretly notifies Power Man and Iron Fist of the Sinister Six's whereabouts. Janice and her associates are arrested, but Boomerang frees them in transit to jail and decides to reclaim his leadership role.[64] In this appearance, her first name is revealed to be Janice.[65]

After assaulting the Owl's base the Beetle, Overdrive and Speed Demon were captured by the villain and interrogated. The Beetle tried to blackmail the Owl into releasing them while covertly dialing for back-up. Unimpressed, the Owl got ready to execute her when reinforcements arrived in the form of Tombstone, where it is later revealed that she is his daughter.[66]

Janice appears at Stark Industries after the events of The Superior Foes of Spider-Man, claiming to have reformed, and applying for the open Head of Security position alongside Prodigy, Victor Mancha, and Scott Lang. After seducing Iron Man, Janice tries to assassinate him at the behest of an unidentified client, but she is disarmed by Lang, and pursued and presumably apprehended by Iron Man.[67]

During the "Last Days" part of the Secret Wars storyline, Janice appears in Miami where she and a despondent Lang have a drunken tryst as the world is destroyed by the final Incursions between Earth-616 and Earth-1610.[68]

Janice Lincoln appeared in the courthouse as a lawyer representing Mysterio following his failed alien invasion plot.[69]

In a prelude to the "Hunted" storyline, Beetle is among the animal-themed characters captured by Taskmaster and Black Ant for Kraven the Hunter's upcoming Great Hunt.[70] When she tries to flee the Hunter-Bots, Beetle hits the forcefield surrounding Central Park.[71]

Janice Lincoln meets the Francine Frye version of Electro where she states that she is offering her membership. Janice learned how Francine got her powers as Janice tells her that she is Tombstone's daughter. Janice states that they are building an organization that values and respects the female contributions to the side of evil. Outside of the mentor-ship programs, salons, and a child care facility, Janice states that they had a teleconference Black Mariah from prison and are trying to make contact with Morgan le Fay. Janice then proceeds to introduce Francine to the rest of the team consisting of Lady Octopus, Scorpia, Trapstr (who is deciding if she will replace the E with an A), and White Rabbit.[72] Francine was reluctant to join up with them until Janice states that their first mission has them targeting Boomerang. The Sinister Syndicate begins their mission where they attack the F.E.A.S.T. building that Boomerang is volunteering at.[73]Boomerang tries to reason with Beetle and Electro who are still made at him for betraying him. Beetle states that they aren't targeting F.E.A.S.T., they are targeting him. Beetle leads the Sinister Syndicate in attacking Boomerang. After getting Aunt May to safety, Peter Parker changes into Spider-Man and helps Boomerang fight the Syndicate. The Syndicate starts doing their formation attack until Spider-Man accidentally sets off Boomerang's gaserang which knocks out Spider-Man enough for the Syndicate to make off with Boomerang. As Beetle has Electro write a proposal on how the Syndicate can use Boomerang as an example to the criminal underworld, Beetle leaves while calling Wilson Fisk that they caught Boomerang as she is given the information on where the exchange can happen. Spider-Man goes to visit Randy Robertson and finds him making out with Beetle.[74] As Spider-Man secretly watches them, Randy learns that Janice's Syndicate kidnapped Boomerang and what had transpired at the F.E.A.S.T. building. He tells Janice that she needs to let Boomerang go. Beetle leaves stating that he would not use her disintegrator ray on him because she is nice to Randy. As she flies, Beetle contacts Mayor Wilson Fisk stating that she is sending him the coordinates to Boomerang's location. When Beetle meets up with the Syndicate, they hear Mayor Fisk outside stating that they are harboring a criminal and are to surrender Boomerang to him or suffer the full might of New York City. After reading the paper in Boomerang's hand that belonged to Mayor Fisk, Beetle tells the Syndicate that they should let Boomerang go. While Beetle claimed that she betrayed them, she did it because she's a supervillain and states that she plans to have Kingpin deputize them. The rest of the Syndicate is not up with this plan. Trapstr later stated that she learned about Beetle's boyfriend by hacking her e-mails. The Syndicate then assists Spider-Man against Mayor Fisk's forces. Beetle has Spider-Man evacuate Boomerang while the Syndicate fights Mayor Fisk's forces while not killing them. The Syndicate is defeated and arrested by the police. Their transport is then attacked by an unknown assailant who frees them. At the F.E.A.S.T. building where men working for Mr. Stone are helping to rebuild the building, Aunt May mentioned to Randy Robertson that a high-powered lawyer got Councilman Galazkiewicz to expedite a permit request in exchange for not suing the city on F.E.A.S.T.'s behalf. Randy learns that the lawyer is Janice who invites them to brunch this weekend. Beetle is briefly seen on the nearby rooftop as Randy sees her while accepting the brunch invite.[75]

Hobgoblin's Beetle[edit]

Roderick Kingsley had sold one of Abner Jenkins's old Beetle armors and gear to an unnamed criminal. He was seen at the Bar With No Name attending the wake of Electro's servant Francine Frye. Beetle was later seen at the Bar With No Name among the patrons who want the Black Cat to be the Queen of the Criminal Underworld.[76]

The Hobgoblin later regained the services of Beetle.[77]

Other versions[edit]

Marvel UK[edit]

The Beetle name was used by an armored S.T.R.I.K.E. superhuman restraint squad in the Jaspers' Warp story arc published by the Marvel UK imprint.[78]

Ultimate Marvel[edit]

The Ultimate Marvel version of Beetle is a mysterious unnamed mercenary from Latveria with a completely revamped armor. Spider-Man first finds Beetle robbing a sample of the Venom symbiote from Roxxon. This doesn't go well for Venom and the resulting battle left the Venom sample useless for Beetle to bring to Latveria.[79]

Beetle later breaks into Bolivar Trask's lab where Eddie Brock is held, leading to Venom chasing after Beetle. Just as Beetle is cornered, Venom is stopped by Spider-Man. When the Venom symbiote leaves Brock and attaches to Spider-Man, Beetle escapes in the confusion.[80]

Disguised as a civilian which Brock least expected, Beetle later captures Venom in Central Park and flies off with him to deliver Venom to Latveria.[81]

Beetle's suit is later seen being repaired by the Tinkerer when a group of villains arrives for weapons against Spider-Man.[82]

In other media[edit]

Television[edit]

Film[edit]

The Abner Jenkins incarnation of the Beetle makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.[citation needed] Additionally, an alternate universe version was intended to appear, but did not make the cut.[88][89]

Video games[edit]

Merchandise[edit]

References[edit]

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