{"id":1823,"date":"2019-11-22T08:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1823"},"modified":"2019-10-27T23:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:58:18","slug":"269-patsy-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/269-patsy-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"269 &#8211; Patsy Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"494\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/patsy-walker.png\" alt=\"A panel from the first Patsy Walker story in Miss America Comics #2, Sept 1944\" class=\"wp-image-1824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/patsy-walker.png 494w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/patsy-walker-300x274.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the first Patsy Walker story in Miss America Comics #2, Sept 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Timely Comics (aka Marvel Comics these days) introduced a new female character in Miss America Comics #2 (September 1944):  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patsy_Walker\">Patsy Walker<\/a>.  Although the Patsy Walker feature was in the &#8220;teen humor&#8221; genre, like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archie_Andrews\">Archie<\/a>, I did learn from Wikipedia that she is an important character for Marvel because she one of the few that bridged the Golden Age (as Timely Comics) through the mid-years (as Atlas Comics) and into the Silver Age (as Marvel Comics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patsy Walker is also unique because she went through a transformation in the 1970s from teen humor to eventually became a superhero in the Marvel Universe.  Patsy also showed up as a supporting character in the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Jones_(TV_series)\">Jessica Jones series<\/a>.  I guess the early panel above showcases her crazy physical flexibility?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timely Comics (aka Marvel Comics these days) introduced a new female character in Miss America Comics #2 (September 1944): Patsy Walker. Although the Patsy Walker feature was in the &#8220;teen humor&#8221; genre, like Archie, I did learn from Wikipedia that she is an important character for Marvel because she one of the few that bridged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277,298,90,297,251],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-277","tag-humour","tag-marvel","tag-patsy-walker","tag-teenager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}