Name: Beast Boy/Changeling
Universe: Earth-1
Alter Ego: Garfield Logan
Occupation: Professional Adventurer
Marital Status: Desperate
Group Affiliation: Doom Patrol (former member), Teen Titans (current member)
Base of Operations: Titans Tower, Manhattan, New York
Known Relatives: Mark and Marie Logan (parents, deceased), Rita Farr (adoptive mother, deceased), Steve Dayton (adoptive father)
Height: 5 ft. 3 in.
Weight: 125 lbs.
Hair Color: Green
Eye Color: Green
First Appearance: Doom Patrol #99
History:
As a child, young Garfield Logan was brought to the African Country of Upper Lamumba by his parents, scientists Mark and Marie Logan. Once there, young Gar mysteriously caught a rare tropical disease, Sakutia, that only animals could survive. To save his dying son, Professor Logan treated the infant with an untested machine he developed to isolate the common genetic bond between humans and animals.
Garfield Logan was cured, but his skin took on a permanent green pigment and his body underwent an even more startling metamorphosis. Gar Logan discovered that he could alter his body into the form of any animal he could think of.
Years passed, and after Mark and Marie Logan died in a boating accident, the child was raised by King Tawaba, chief of a local African tribe.
But Gar Logan's animal-changing powers brought him to the attention of several criminals who used the child to commit various crimes. Soon after the criminals died, Gar Logan and his trust fund were put in the hands of an unscrupulous guardian named Galtry.
Logan remained with Galtry, hating his guardian, until he met Rita Farr and her new husband, millionaire Steve Dayton. Wanting to adopt the young shape-shifter, Farr and Dayton waged a court battle against Galtry. Farr and Dayton won and soon adopted Gar Logan.
Calling himself Beast Boy, Logan joined the Doom Patrol and fought alongside this famed team of heroes until Farr, Larry Trainor, Niles Caulder, and Cliff Steele apparently died at the hands of a former member of the Brotherhood of Evil, Madama Rouge, and Naxi war criminal General Zahl. Later on, Gar Logan learned that Cliff Steele was the sole survivor of the Doom Patrol.
Young and brash, Gar Logan answered the summons when Hollywood called, and the youthful shape-changer got a job playing the alien metamorph Tork on the television show Space Trek 2022. But TV fame was fleeting and the show was soon canceled.
Back to living with Steve Dayton, Gar Logan, who now calling himself the Changeling, soon joined another group of super-hero adventurers, this time a group closer to his age. To date, Garfield Logan remains a charter member of the New Teen Titans.
Powers:
Garfield Logan has the unique ability to change his form into that of any animal he can picture in his mind. The smaller the animal, the longer Gar is able to keep its shape. The greater the animal's mass, the shorter time Gar can hold that form. Also, the larger his shape-shifting change is, the weaker Gar Logan will become, and the longer it will take for the 16-year-old to once again use his powers.
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