{"id":1552,"date":"2019-09-04T06:34:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T13:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:12:52","slug":"212-marvel-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/212-marvel-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"212 &#8211; Marvel Boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/marvel-boy-2.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Marvel Boy story in USA Comics #7, December 1942\" class=\"wp-image-1553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/marvel-boy-2.png 594w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/marvel-boy-2-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Marvel Boy story in USA Comics #7, December 1942<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More &#8220;name-squatting&#8221; continues in the Golden Age &#8211; we see a character name &#8220;Marvel Boy&#8221; created by Timely Comics during the hey-day of Fawcett Comics&#8217; Captain Marvel craze.  This is actually the second story featuring this version of Marvel Boy, Martin Burns.  As <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Marvel_Comics_characters:_M#Marvel_Boy\">Wikipedia points out<\/a>, both stories were pretty different and the character never really went anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole mixup between Marvel Comics and Fawcett&#8217;s Captain Marvel only gets worse from here &#8211; eventually culminating in the original Captain Marvel character of Shazam-fame to not even have a name within the story during his major motion picture debut.  To add insult to injury, the movie that got to use that name crushed Shazam at the box office!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More &#8220;name-squatting&#8221; continues in the Golden Age &#8211; we see a character name &#8220;Marvel Boy&#8221; created by Timely Comics during the hey-day of Fawcett Comics&#8217; Captain Marvel craze. This is actually the second story featuring this version of Marvel Boy, Martin Burns. As Wikipedia points out, both stories were pretty different and the character never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[236,122,90],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-236","tag-fawcett","tag-marvel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}