{"id":1733,"date":"2019-10-21T08:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2019-09-24T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:56:49","slug":"245-holy-continuity-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/245-holy-continuity-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"245 &#8211; Holy Continuity, Batman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/batman-continuity.png\" alt=\"A panel from Batman #21, December 1943\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/batman-continuity.png 644w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/batman-continuity-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Batman #21, December 1943<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Batman #21 (December 1943), we find the first instance of a comic referencing a minor event in its continuity from a previous month in a footnote.  In fairness, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1724\">thinning of Alfred the Butler<\/a> was an atypical  event in comic history at this point, since the goal was to generally keep the same formula going for as long as possible, so it&#8217;s totally reasonable to try and clue readers into this recent event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Batman #21 (December 1943), we find the first instance of a comic referencing a minor event in its continuity from a previous month in a footnote. In fairness, the thinning of Alfred the Butler was an atypical event in comic history at this point, since the goal was to generally keep the same formula [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,259,40,271,14,32],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-257","tag-alfred-pennyworth","tag-batman","tag-continuity","tag-dc","tag-firsts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","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=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1738,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}