{"id":1380,"date":"2019-07-12T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2022-01-01T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T01:42:17","slug":"174-aquaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/174-aquaman\/","title":{"rendered":"174 &#8211; Aquaman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aquaman.png\" alt=\"A panel from More Fun Comics #73, September 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aquaman.png 624w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aquaman-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from More Fun Comics #73, September 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The second major hero to be introduce in More Fun Comics #73 (September 1941) was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aquaman\">Aquaman<\/a>, created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mort_Weisinger\">Mort Weisinger<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Norris\">Paul Norris<\/a>. This first story featured a different origin than in later years, in which Aquaman&#8217;s father was a scientist who discovered the underwater ruins of Atlantis, then helped his son learn to live under the sea by &#8220;training and a hundred scientific secrets&#8221;.  In this first story, Aquaman is able to talk to porpoises to enlist their aid, but he has none of the bite of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Namor\">Namor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would have thought that such a tame character would eventually become a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aquaman_(film)\">box office sensation<\/a> 77 years later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second major hero to be introduce in More Fun Comics #73 (September 1941) was Aquaman, created by Mort Weisinger and Paul Norris. This first story featured a different origin than in later years, in which Aquaman&#8217;s father was a scientist who discovered the underwater ruins of Atlantis, then helped his son learn to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,225,226,14,217,92,337],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-aquaman","tag-atlantis","tag-dc","tag-mort-weisinger","tag-namor","tag-origin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","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=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}