{"id":1168,"date":"2019-06-12T09:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T16:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1168"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:52:08","slug":"152-starman-waiting-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/152-starman-waiting-in-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"152 &#8211; Starman, Waiting in the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/starman-797x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #61, March 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/starman-797x1024.png 797w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/starman-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/starman-768x986.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/starman.png 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #61, March 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Starman_(Ted_Knight)\">Starman<\/a>, Ted Knight, debuts in Adventure Comics #61 (March 1941).  He is an inventor who discovers that &#8220;infra rays&#8221; from stars can be harnessed in a &#8220;magnetic tube&#8221; that he calls a &#8220;Gravity Rod&#8221;.  Woof that&#8217;s a lot of technobabble for the 1940s!  I guess the Gravity Rod lets him defy the laws of gravity and shoot energy bolts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted claims he is the first person to harness the rays from stars scientifically, but I guess he should have done some reading to learn that scientists had been working on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timeline_of_solar_cells\">solar cells<\/a> for at least 50 years before he debuted as Starman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Starman, Ted Knight, debuts in Adventure Comics #61 (March 1941). He is an inventor who discovers that &#8220;infra rays&#8221; from stars can be harnessed in a &#8220;magnetic tube&#8221; that he calls a &#8220;Gravity Rod&#8221;. Woof that&#8217;s a lot of technobabble for the 1940s! I guess the Gravity Rod lets him defy the laws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,14,197],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-dc","tag-starman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","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=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}