{"id":1837,"date":"2019-11-28T07:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T15:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2020-03-27T01:01:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T08:01:46","slug":"273-psycho-pirate-and-those-meddling-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/273-psycho-pirate-and-those-meddling-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"273 &#8211; Psycho-Pirate and Those Meddling Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/psycho-pirate-golden-age.png\" alt=\"The golden age Psycho-Pirate, from All-Star Comics #23, November 1944\" class=\"wp-image-1838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/psycho-pirate-golden-age.png 622w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/psycho-pirate-golden-age-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><figcaption>The golden age Psycho-Pirate, from All-Star Comics #23, November 1944<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although he is a far cry from his Silver Age counterpart, the Golden Age <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psycho-Pirate#Charles_Halstead\">Psycho-Pirate<\/a> makes his debut in All-Star Comics #23 (November 1944).  Charles Halstead, a frustrated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linotype_machine\">linotyper<\/a>, commits crimes based on emotions and challenges the Justice Society of America.  He has no powers and would not merit a mention in this blog if the Silver-Age version hadn&#8217;t had such an impact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crisis_on_Infinite_Earths\">Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/a> storyline&#8230; but that&#8217;s 41 years away still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/quotes\/meddling-kids.html\">Scooby-Doo villain speech<\/a> though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is a far cry from his Silver Age counterpart, the Golden Age Psycho-Pirate makes his debut in All-Star Comics #23 (November 1944). Charles Halstead, a frustrated linotyper, commits crimes based on emotions and challenges the Justice Society of America. He has no powers and would not merit a mention in this blog if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[277,212,14,435,302],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-277","tag-crisis-on-infinite-earths","tag-dc","tag-names","tag-psycho-pirate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","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=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}