{"id":1655,"date":"2019-10-01T07:49:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T14:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2019-11-09T20:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T04:16:03","slug":"231-superman-goes-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/231-superman-goes-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"231 &#8211; Superman Goes Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-gets-amnesia-754x1024.png\" alt=\"Superman gets amnesia for the first time in Action Comics #63, June 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-gets-amnesia-754x1024.png 754w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-gets-amnesia-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-gets-amnesia-768x1043.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-gets-amnesia.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 754px) 100vw, 754px\" \/><figcaption>Superman gets amnesia for the first time in Action Comics #63, June 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Superman stories throughout every age includes those where he suddenly appears to, or actually does, work on the side of the bad guys.  In Action Comics #63 (June 1943), we get the first such story, in which invisible rays from two stars colliding in the cosmos strikes Clark and not only wipes out his nipples (?) but gives him amnesia and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, criminals happen to be walking by at that moment and recruit him as one of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with his amnesia, I love how Superman recognizes how to respond to a threat, it&#8217;s his most endearing quality:  Always doing the right thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/the-instinct-of-a-superman.png\" alt=\"Superman's instinct takes over, Action Comics #63, June 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/the-instinct-of-a-superman.png 652w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/the-instinct-of-a-superman-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><figcaption>Superman&#8217;s instinct takes over, Action Comics #63, June 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course destroying the threatening meteor restores his memory!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superman stories throughout every age includes those where he suddenly appears to, or actually does, work on the side of the bad guys. In Action Comics #63 (June 1943), we get the first such story, in which invisible rays from two stars colliding in the cosmos strikes Clark and not only wipes out his nipples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,303,14,43],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-257","tag-amnesia","tag-dc","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","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=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}