{"id":2180,"date":"2020-03-23T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2180"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:20:13","slug":"350-tomahawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/350-tomahawk\/","title":{"rendered":"350 &#8211; Tomahawk!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tomahawk.png\" alt=\"A panel from Star Spangled Comics #69, April 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tomahawk.png 630w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tomahawk-300x226.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Star Spangled Comics #69, April 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tomahawk_(comics)\">Tomahawk<\/a>, and his trusty young sidekick Dan Hunter, debut in Star Spangled Comics #69 (April 1947).  As a young pioneer in Kentucky, Tom Hawk was captured by &#8220;Indians&#8221;, but after saving some of their people from a rampaging moose, was befriended, given the nickname &#8220;Tomahawk&#8221; and taught their ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, he defended an American outpost being attacked by white people pretending to be Native Americans.  In the process, he met a now-orphaned lad named Dan Hunter, and thus began their adventure series together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there were many minor western-themed characters throughout the 1930s and early 1940s, Tomahawk seems to be the first of a new wave of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_comics\">Western comics<\/a> that kicked off in the late 1940s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomahawk, and his trusty young sidekick Dan Hunter, debut in Star Spangled Comics #69 (April 1947). As a young pioneer in Kentucky, Tom Hawk was captured by &#8220;Indians&#8221;, but after saving some of their people from a rampaging moose, was befriended, given the nickname &#8220;Tomahawk&#8221; and taught their ways. Later, he defended an American outpost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,14,396,372,398],"class_list":["post-2180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-dc","tag-superhero-collapse","tag-tomahawk","tag-western-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180","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=2180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2180\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}