The Rise of the Blue Beetle! has a few problems with controlling his powers, such as when he tried to rescue a cat from a tree. Batman decides to take the young superhero under his wing and asks Blue Beetle to help him stop a meteor. The mission is stopped, however, when the two superheroes to get sucked into a wormhole which sends both of them to a distant planet that has a war between single-celled aliens called Gibbles and the intergalactic pirate Kanjar Ro, who wants to harvest their bodies for fuel. The aliens believe that Blue Beetle is their savior, mistaking him for the
The Game of Cootie to Schaper's, both were paper and pencil games. In 1937, Rork's released "The Game of Cootie", and it too was a paper and pencil game. A paper and pencil party game called "Beetle" is popular in Britain but its date of origin is unknown. In 1939, Transogram published "Cootie", a game featuring a three-dimensional wooden bug assembled in a die-cut tray. Schaper's game was the first to employ a fully three-dimensional, free-standing plastic cootie. Schaper's plastic bug has become an icon, and, for some, a symbol for the baby boomer generation. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association included "Cootie" on