{"id":1440,"date":"2019-08-01T08:39:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:19:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T03:19:58","slug":"188-the-newsboy-legion-and-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/188-the-newsboy-legion-and-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"188 &#8211; The Newsboy Legion and the Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/guardian-newsboy-legion-1024x726.png\" alt=\"A panel from Star Spangled Comics #7, February 1942\" class=\"wp-image-1441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/guardian-newsboy-legion-1024x726.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/guardian-newsboy-legion-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/guardian-newsboy-legion-768x545.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/guardian-newsboy-legion.png 1266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Star Spangled Comics #7, February 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Kirby\">Jack Kirby<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Simon\">Joe Simon<\/a> jumped the Timely\/Marvel Comics ship at the end of 1941 and landed at National\/DC Comics just as the U.S. was entering World War II. in Star Spangled Comics #7 (February 1942), they debuted a Captain America-resembling hero named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guardian_(DC_Comics)\">The Guardian<\/a> who took a bunch of orphaned newsboys under his wing as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newsboy_Legion\">Newsboy Legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new version of The Guardian (Jimmy Olsen) would later appear in the CW Supergirl TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Kirby and Joe Simon jumped the Timely\/Marvel Comics ship at the end of 1941 and landed at National\/DC Comics just as the U.S. was entering World War II. in Star Spangled Comics #7 (February 1942), they debuted a Captain America-resembling hero named The Guardian who took a bunch of orphaned newsboys under his wing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,14,242,161,160,90,241],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-dc","tag-guardian","tag-jack-kirby","tag-joe-simon","tag-marvel","tag-newsboy-legion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","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=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}