{"id":1050,"date":"2019-05-20T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2020-10-18T20:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:03:57","slug":"135-the-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/135-the-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"135 &#8211; The Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-vision.png\" alt=\"A panel from The Vision, Marvel Mystery Comics #13, September 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-vision.png 876w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-vision-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-vision-768x477.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from The Vision, Marvel Mystery Comics #13, September 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=973\">mentioned before<\/a>, I never knew there were so many Marvel Comics characters named after obscure Golden Age characters they had introduced decades earlier*.  Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (September 1940), introduced a new hero to Timely\/Marvel&#8217;s Golden Age of Comics:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vision_(Aarkus)\">The Vision<\/a>.  No, not the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vision_(Marvel_Comics)\">android from the 1960s<\/a>, but an alien from Jupiter that is able to traverse dimensional barriers to Earth by using&#8230; smoke&#8230; or something.  The Golden Age and Silver Age characters look pretty similar:  Different colored skin, bald head, skin-tight green and yellow costume with a cape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vision looks pretty similar to DC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martian_Manhunter\">Martian Manhunter<\/a>, though that character was introduced 15 years later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*  I now know of five Golden Age characters that gave their names to Silver Age characters:  The Human Torch, Angel, Falcon, Black Widow, Vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned before, I never knew there were so many Marvel Comics characters named after obscure Golden Age characters they had introduced decades earlier*. Marvel Mystery Comics #13 (September 1940), introduced a new hero to Timely\/Marvel&#8217;s Golden Age of Comics: The Vision. No, not the android from the 1960s, but an alien from Jupiter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,89,90,514,175],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-martian-manhunter","tag-marvel","tag-name-squatting","tag-the-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2943,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions\/2943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}