{"id":1862,"date":"2019-12-09T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2019-11-23T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T00:32:03","slug":"280-the-monocle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/280-the-monocle\/","title":{"rendered":"280 &#8211; The Monocle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/the-monacle.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/the-monacle.png 644w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/the-monacle-300x276.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Golden Age, only a couple superheroes had compelling rosters of supervillains &#8211; in DC it was really only the &#8220;trinity&#8221;: Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.  The other major heroes (Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, etc) were missing a compelling set of villains.  Hawkman got his first nemesis with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monocle_(character)\">The Monocle<\/a> in Flash Comics #64 (February 1945).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Monocle was Jonathan Cheval, an optics expert who uses his expertise to create monocles that have different powers in order to exact revenge on criminals who cheated him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Golden Age, only a couple superheroes had compelling rosters of supervillains &#8211; in DC it was really only the &#8220;trinity&#8221;: Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The other major heroes (Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, etc) were missing a compelling set of villains. Hawkman got his first nemesis with The Monocle in Flash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[307,14,112,313,81],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-307","tag-dc","tag-hawkman","tag-monocle","tag-supervillain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","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=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}