{"id":1399,"date":"2019-07-19T08:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-07-19T22:04:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:04:50","slug":"179-captain-marvel-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/179-captain-marvel-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"179 &#8211; Captain Marvel, Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"884\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/captain-marvel-jr.png\" alt=\"A panel from Whiz Comics #25, November 1941\" class=\"wp-image-1400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/captain-marvel-jr.png 884w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/captain-marvel-jr-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/captain-marvel-jr-768x499.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 884px) 100vw, 884px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Whiz Comics #25, November 1941<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Whiz Comics #25 (November 1941), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fawcett_Comics\">Fawcett<\/a> introduces <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_Marvel_Jr.\">Captain Marvel Jr<\/a>, aka Freddy Freeman, a crippled boy who became the second official member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvel_Family\">Marvel Family<\/a>. It seems like Fawcett began to realize how big of a hit Captain Marvel was starting to become and had plans to spread it around with new characters, with Freddy to appear in &#8220;Master Comics&#8221; to take out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_Nazi\">Captain Nazi<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s interesting in this story that Captain Marvel stays cartoon-ish, while Captain Marvel Jr is drawn in a more realistic manner in the <em>same<\/em> story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Whiz Comics #25 (November 1941), Fawcett introduces Captain Marvel Jr, aka Freddy Freeman, a crippled boy who became the second official member of the Marvel Family. It seems like Fawcett began to realize how big of a hit Captain Marvel was starting to become and had plans to spread it around with new characters, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,121,250,122,230,147],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-191","tag-captain-marvel","tag-captain-marvel-jr","tag-fawcett","tag-marvel-family","tag-sidekick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","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=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}