{"id":1108,"date":"2019-06-03T08:25:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T15:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:50:14","slug":"145-not-captain-but-mister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/145-not-captain-but-mister\/","title":{"rendered":"145 &#8211; Not Captain, but Mister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mister-america-1024x752.png\" alt=\"A panel from Mister America, Action Comics #34, December 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mister-america-1024x752.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mister-america-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mister-america-768x564.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mister-america.png 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Mister America, Action Comics #34, December 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1102\">super patriotic heroes<\/a>, Action Comics #34 (December 1940) saw <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tex_Thompson\">Tex Thompson<\/a> transition into a superhero role by dying his hair black, donning a domino mask and red cape, brandishing a whip, and calling himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toonopedia.com\/mramer.htm\">Mister America<\/a>.  This is the first time a regular adventure strip morphed into a superhero strip (I don&#8217;t really count Ma Hunkel becoming the original <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_Tornado_(Ma_Hunkel)\">Red Tornado<\/a>, since that grew out of the humor strip Scribbly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of super patriotic heroes, Action Comics #34 (December 1940) saw Tex Thompson transition into a superhero role by dying his hair black, donning a domino mask and red cape, brandishing a whip, and calling himself Mister America. This is the first time a regular adventure strip morphed into a superhero strip (I don&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,118,14,188,190,189],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-captain-america","tag-dc","tag-mister-america","tag-red-tornado","tag-tex-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}