{"id":2162,"date":"2020-03-19T07:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T14:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2020-02-09T22:51:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:51:10","slug":"348-manhattans-files-from-the-crypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/348-manhattans-files-from-the-crypt\/","title":{"rendered":"348 &#8211; Manhattan&#8217;s Files from the Crypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manhattan-files.png\" alt=\"A panel from Manhattan's Files from International Comics #1, February 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manhattan-files.png 630w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/manhattan-files-300x271.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Manhattan&#8217;s Files from International Comics #1, February 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>EC Comics began to expand its lineup beyond educational comics in the late 1940s.  In early 1947, EC launched the first set of &#8220;Entertaining Comics&#8221; including International Comics #1 (February 1947).  International featured a series of adventure-type stories, including Van Manhattan, &#8220;America&#8217;s newest supersleuth&#8221;.  Van Manhattan was joined by Igor the Archer, Juan Meatball, and Madelon (&#8220;The First Lady of the Lens&#8221;).  The internet suggests that Manhattan&#8217;s Files was written by Gardner Fox and drawn by Howard Purcell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As EC Comics evolved they took to repeatedly re-naming their series of comic books, so that over the course of a couple years, International Comics eventually becomes Crime Stories, which eventually becomes The Crypt of Terror which eventually becomes the famous Tales from the Crypt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EC Comics began to expand its lineup beyond educational comics in the late 1940s. In early 1947, EC launched the first set of &#8220;Entertaining Comics&#8221; including International Comics #1 (February 1947). International featured a series of adventure-type stories, including Van Manhattan, &#8220;America&#8217;s newest supersleuth&#8221;. Van Manhattan was joined by Igor the Archer, Juan Meatball, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,350,80,348,369],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-ec","tag-gardner-fox","tag-howard-purcell","tag-tales-from-the-crypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","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=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}