{"id":1303,"date":"2019-05-09T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2019-02-27T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T05:45:16","slug":"128-the-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/128-the-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"128 &#8211; The Ray!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"892\" height=\"970\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-ray.png\" alt=\"A panel from Smash Comics #14, July 1940\" class=\"wp-image-1304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-ray.png 892w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-ray-276x300.png 276w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/the-ray-768x835.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Smash Comics #14, July 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Smash Comics #14 (July 1940), Quality introduces a new superhero in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_(comics)#Langford_%22Happy%22_Terrill\">The Ray<\/a>.  The Ray is &#8220;Happy&#8221; Terrill, a newspaper reporter who is exposed to radiation in a weather balloon experiment and gains fantastic radiation powers &#8211; at the cost of his pants.  The Ray shows up in other versions throughout the years, the latest incarnation making an appearance in the CW&#8217;s annual &#8220;crossover&#8221; event in 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crisis_on_Earth-X\">Crisis on Earth-X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Smash Comics #14 (July 1940), Quality introduces a new superhero in the form of The Ray. The Ray is &#8220;Happy&#8221; Terrill, a newspaper reporter who is exposed to radiation in a weather balloon experiment and gains fantastic radiation powers &#8211; at the cost of his pants. The Ray shows up in other versions throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,215,14,49,214],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-arrowverse","tag-dc","tag-quality-comics","tag-the-ray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","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=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}