Jarvis Kord
52 years ago - Jarvis Kord is born.
34 years ago - 18-year-old Jarvis attends college.
30 years ago - 22-year-old Jarvis attends grad school.
28 years ago - 24-year-old Jarvis gets his masters in cybertechnology.
27 years ago - 25-year-old Jarvis earns his doctorate in cybertechnology. He begins building his own company, Kord Omniversal.
26 years ago - 26-year-old Jarvis becomes a founding member of H.I.V.E.
20 years ago - 32-year-old Jarvis's nephew Ted Kord starts working for his company.
18 years ago - 34-year-old Jarvis separates from H.I.V.E. becoming an independent weapons contractor.
15 years ago - 37-year-old Jarvis's nephew Ted Kord designs the security systems for the Justice League transporters, not building a backdoor as requested.
10 years ago - 42-year-old Jarvis builds a robot army. He’s stopped from selling it to the highest bidder by Dan Garrett & Ted Kord, and is killed by his own creation.
When building this page, I read every single comic this character had ever appeared in, and literally downloaded every single comic panel. That was three comics and 13 panels. It was also only one story, told in flashback, three times. Sometimes characters just exist as the fulcrum for the plot to turn on. There's enough utility here to actually justify giving him a timeline, but it is still fun to marvel at just how little a character needs to appear and yet still be considered an important part of the story.
Jarvis Kord's StoryWhile Charlton Comics was taking a stab at creating their own superhero lineup in the 60s, they created a whole new version of the Fox Comics Golden Age hero Blue Beetle, since editor Dick Giordano wasn't a fan of magic-based characters. Ted Kord debuted as a backup for several issues of Captain Atom, but it wasn't until he started in his own series when we first learned what had happened to the original Blue Beetle?
We learned, in flashback that Ted's uncle Jarvis had exploited his scientific expertise to create a robot army for his plans of world domination. Ted brought his former professor and archeologist Dan Garrett to Pago Island, where they are captured by the aforementioned Robot Army. Thankfully, it turns out that Dan Garrett is Blue Beetle, and he manages to stop the robots, but Jarvis triggers a self-destruct mechanism which leaves Dan mortally wounded, and asking Ted to carry on as the Blue Beetle... which he does quite well, as evidenced by the fact that he's already been Blue Beetle for a while and is getting his own series. We can then fast forward to DC's Blue Beetle #1 in 1986, where Ted again remembers this story to catch us all up... after it was just told the month previous in issue #2 of Secret Origins. |
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