{"id":2129,"date":"2020-03-09T08:02:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2129"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:22:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:22:06","slug":"340-just-a-mister-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/340-just-a-mister-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"340 &#8211; Just a Mister Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"554\" height=\"526\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/mister-nobody.png\" alt=\"A panel from Comic Cavalcade #19, December 1946\" class=\"wp-image-2130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/mister-nobody.png 554w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/mister-nobody-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Comic Cavalcade #19, December 1946<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Howard Purcell continues his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/313-just-a-story\/\">Just a Story<\/a>&#8221; anthology series in Comic Cavalcade #19 (December 1946) but introduces a character called &#8220;Mister Nobody&#8221; as a kind of framing device.  I believe &#8220;Mister Nobody&#8221; is really the first appearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unexpected#Johnny_Peril\">Johnny Peril<\/a>.  Johnny Peril and &#8220;Just a Story&#8221; are precursors to the horror anthology genre in comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Purcell continues his &#8220;Just a Story&#8221; anthology series in Comic Cavalcade #19 (December 1946) but introduces a character called &#8220;Mister Nobody&#8221; as a kind of framing device. I believe &#8220;Mister Nobody&#8221; is really the first appearance of Johnny Peril. Johnny Peril and &#8220;Just a Story&#8221; are precursors to the horror anthology genre in comics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,349,14,397,348,360,383],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-341","tag-anthology","tag-dc","tag-horror-comics","tag-howard-purcell","tag-johnny-peril","tag-just-a-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2214,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}