{"id":1083,"date":"2019-05-27T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2024-11-08T09:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T17:01:46","slug":"140-for-starters-you-need-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/140-for-starters-you-need-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"140 &#8211; For Starters, You Need Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"763\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atom-butt-cheeks-1-763x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from The Atom, All-American #22, November 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atom-butt-cheeks-1-763x1024.png 763w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atom-butt-cheeks-1-223x300.png 223w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atom-butt-cheeks-1-768x1031.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atom-butt-cheeks-1.png 788w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A panel from The Atom, All-American #22, November 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have yet to see an in-depth, well-rounded and firm journalistic exploration of the costume choices of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atom_(Al_Pratt)\">Golden Age Atom<\/a>, Al Pratt.  Decades before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonder_Woman\">Wonder Woman<\/a> was allowed to run around in basically high-cut panties, the Atom did it in brown ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to imagine the conversations between writer and illustrator to craft the painful vision of this superhero sliding down a banister nearly butt-nekkid. Oh, and can we make the banister a little more phallic? And this isn&#8217;t an isolated incident&#8230; All-American Comics #22 (November 1940) featured panel after uncomfortable panel of Al&#8217;s butt cheeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have yet to see an in-depth, well-rounded and firm journalistic exploration of the costume choices of the Golden Age Atom, Al Pratt. Decades before Wonder Woman was allowed to run around in basically high-cut panties, the Atom did it in brown ones. I&#8217;m trying to imagine the conversations between writer and illustrator to craft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,14,179,172],"class_list":["post-1083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-dc","tag-sexuality","tag-the-atom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083","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=1083"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4734,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1083\/revisions\/4734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}