{"id":2000,"date":"2020-01-22T08:26:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2020-01-19T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T17:13:44","slug":"307-supermans-pupils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/307-supermans-pupils\/","title":{"rendered":"307 &#8211; Superman&#8217;s Pupils"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-pupils-837x1024.png\" alt=\"A portion of the cover of Superman #40, March 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-pupils-837x1024.png 837w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-pupils-245x300.png 245w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-pupils-768x940.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/superman-pupils.png 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><figcaption>A portion of the cover of Superman #40, March 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Superman earliest comic book appearances always portrayed him as a dashing, heroic figure.  Joe Shuster drew the character as always in command and never surprised.  As a result, he eyes were always shadowed or squinting.  Did Superman even have white eyeballs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/when-lois-met-clark-1024x921.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/when-lois-met-clark-1024x921.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/when-lois-met-clark-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/when-lois-met-clark-768x691.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/when-lois-met-clark.png 1334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Around the time of Superman #40 (March 1946) I started noticing more illustrations of Superman with his eyes wide open, particularly on the covers.  This trend humanizes the character and may be a result of more humorous stories such as this &#8220;villain&#8221; team-up of Mr. Mxyztplk and Susie Tompkins or it may just be a result of trying to challenge the character in new ways and not always show him as completely in control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s another glimpse of Superman Eyes Wide Open from World&#8217;s Finest #22 (also March 1946):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-09-at-8.02.37-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-09-at-8.02.37-AM.png 698w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screen-Shot-2020-01-09-at-8.02.37-AM-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superman earliest comic book appearances always portrayed him as a dashing, heroic figure. Joe Shuster drew the character as always in command and never surprised. As a result, he eyes were always shadowed or squinting. Did Superman even have white eyeballs? Around the time of Superman #40 (March 1946) I started noticing more illustrations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,14,298,25,290,43,270],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-dc","tag-humour","tag-joe-shuster","tag-mr-mxyzptlk","tag-superman","tag-susie-thompkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}