{"id":1770,"date":"2019-11-04T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2019-10-12T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T19:13:10","slug":"255-mike-gibbs-guerilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/255-mike-gibbs-guerilla\/","title":{"rendered":"255 &#8211; Mike Gibbs, Guerilla"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"532\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mike-gibbs-guerilla.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Mike Gibbs, Guerilla story in Adventure Comics #92, April 1944\" class=\"wp-image-1771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mike-gibbs-guerilla.png 532w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mike-gibbs-guerilla-300x258.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Mike Gibbs, Guerilla story in Adventure Comics #92, April 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookbin.com\/Mike_Gibbs_Guerilla002.html\">Mike Gibbs, Guerilla<\/a> took on the Japanese in a trenchcoat and fedora throughout World War 2.  In Adventure Comics #92 (April 1944), we find him in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korea#Japanese_occupation_and_Japan-Korea_Annexation\">Korea<\/a> trying to inspire its leader to revolt against Japanese occupation.  From this story I learned that 1) artists <em>did<\/em> know how to draw Asian people that were not simply mean caricatures, 2) the United Nations mentioned here was the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allies_of_World_War_II\">Allies of World War II<\/a>, that were only colloquially referred to as the &#8220;United Nations&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Gibbs, Guerilla took on the Japanese in a trenchcoat and fedora throughout World War 2. In Adventure Comics #92 (April 1944), we find him in Korea trying to inspire its leader to revolt against Japanese occupation. From this story I learned that 1) artists did know how to draw Asian people that were not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277,14,285,132],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-277","tag-dc","tag-history","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","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=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1772,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}