{"id":1192,"date":"2019-06-19T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2019-08-08T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T02:59:03","slug":"157-hawkgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/157-hawkgirl\/","title":{"rendered":"157 &#8211; Hawkgirl!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"976\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hawkgirl.png\" alt=\"A panel from All-Star Comics #5, April 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hawkgirl.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hawkgirl-236x300.png 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from All-Star Comics #5, April 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of showing women as helpless romantic interests posed in alluring dresses, someone gets the idea to get women into the action.  In All-Star Comics #5 (April 1941), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shiera_Sanders_Hall\">Shiera<\/a> jumps from being a simple love interest to becoming DC&#8217;s first costumed super-heroine, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawkgirl\">Hawkgirl<\/a>.  In reality, this first story doesn&#8217;t really have Hawkgirl doing anything but getting shot, she still beats <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wonder_Woman\">Wonder Woman<\/a> by six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note:  Hawkgirl wasn&#8217;t the first female version of an established superhero.  I believe that honor goes to Fawcett&#8217;s Bulletgirl, appearing just one month earlier in March 1941 in Master Comics #13!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After years of showing women as helpless romantic interests posed in alluring dresses, someone gets the idea to get women into the action. In All-Star Comics #5 (April 1941), Shiera jumps from being a simple love interest to becoming DC&#8217;s first costumed super-heroine, Hawkgirl. In reality, this first story doesn&#8217;t really have Hawkgirl doing anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,252,14,199,112,200,72],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-bulletgirl","tag-dc","tag-hawkgirl","tag-hawkman","tag-heroine","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","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=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}