{"id":1492,"date":"2019-08-14T20:14:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2019-12-19T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T06:59:25","slug":"197-two-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/197-two-face\/","title":{"rendered":"197 &#8211; Two-Face!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"902\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/batman-two-face.png\" alt=\"A panel from Detective Comics #66, June 1942\" class=\"wp-image-1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/batman-two-face.png 786w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/batman-two-face-261x300.png 261w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/batman-two-face-768x881.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Detective Comics #66, June 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Detective Comics #66 (June 1942) saw the introduction of another great macabre Batman villain:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-Face\">Two-Face<\/a>!  This origin story features everything:  Handsome public defender, angry criminal court scene, acid splash and then a psychotic break into a supervillain with a fascination for the number 2.  The only difference from the modern day version is that he is named Harvey <em>Kent<\/em> in this first story, later renamed to Harvey Dent in a later issue to disassociate from Clark Kent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue also features another first for DC Comics:  A story that ends on a cliff-hanger in which Two-Face flips his coin to decide whether he should live the rest of his life as a criminal.  Oddly the story continues two issues later (Detective Comics #68).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/two-face-coin-flip.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/two-face-coin-flip.png 494w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/two-face-coin-flip-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/two-face-coin-flip-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There were a couple inker errors in this story though:  Harvey comes home from the hospital already dressed in his traditional two-color split suit, even before he decides to become a supervillain &#8211; and his left hand is colored green for some reason!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Comics #66 (June 1942) saw the introduction of another great macabre Batman villain: Two-Face! This origin story features everything: Handsome public defender, angry criminal court scene, acid splash and then a psychotic break into a supervillain with a fascination for the number 2. The only difference from the modern day version is that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,40,14,337,81],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-origin","tag-supervillain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","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=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}