{"id":1717,"date":"2019-10-15T08:13:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2019-09-20T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T06:23:50","slug":"241-mercury-meet-a-new-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/241-mercury-meet-a-new-god\/","title":{"rendered":"241 &#8211; Mercury, meet a New God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"860\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-meets-mercury.png\" alt=\"Superman meets the God Mercury in Superman #20, November 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-meets-mercury.png 810w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-meets-mercury-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/superman-meets-mercury-768x815.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><figcaption>Superman meets the God Mercury in Superman #20, November 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1713\">over-powered god-like beings<\/a>, the Roman God Mercury awakens in Superman #20 (November 1943) and causes mischief for Superman.  Eventually, Superman takes scissors and snips off Mercury&#8217;s ankle and helmet wings&#8230; a little harsh!  Humiliated, Mercury stops clowning around and helps clean up the mischief and goes back into hibernation for another 1,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It feels like the writers of Superman were searching for more interesting ways to challenge their over-powered character by this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of over-powered god-like beings, the Roman God Mercury awakens in Superman #20 (November 1943) and causes mischief for Superman. Eventually, Superman takes scissors and snips off Mercury&#8217;s ankle and helmet wings&#8230; a little harsh! Humiliated, Mercury stops clowning around and helps clean up the mischief and goes back into hibernation for another 1,000 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,14,43],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-257","tag-dc","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","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=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}