{"id":2261,"date":"2020-04-13T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2020-02-15T09:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:43:48","slug":"365-boy-commandos-in-atlantis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/365-boy-commandos-in-atlantis\/","title":{"rendered":"365 &#8211; Boy Commandos in Atlantis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-1024x462.png\" alt=\"A panel from Boy Commandos #23, July 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-1024x462.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-768x346.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis.png 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Boy Commandos #23, July 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 1947, Boy Commandos #23 includes a story where the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boy_Commandos\">Boy Commandos<\/a> are brought to the underwater city of Atlantis, which of course differs from the versions of Atlantis that each of Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Superman have variously visited.  But what&#8217;s interesting about this story is the hints of Jack Kirby world-building and burgeoning grandiosity.  Just check out this battle scene:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-battle-1024x930.png\" alt=\"A battle in Atlantis in Boy Commandos #23, July 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-battle-1024x930.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-battle-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-battle-768x698.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-atlantis-battle.png 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A battle in Atlantis in Boy Commandos #23, July 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And hey, maybe this is the first instance of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kirby_Krackle\">Kirby Krackle<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-kirby-krackle.png\" alt=\"A Kirby-Krackle-like panel from Boy Commandos #23, July 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-kirby-krackle.png 624w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boy-commandos-kirby-krackle-300x273.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>A Kirby-Krackle-like panel from Boy Commandos #23, July 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1947, Boy Commandos #23 includes a story where the Boy Commandos are brought to the underwater city of Atlantis, which of course differs from the versions of Atlantis that each of Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Superman have variously visited. But what&#8217;s interesting about this story is the hints of Jack Kirby world-building and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,226,390,14,161,160,391],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-atlantis","tag-boy-commandos","tag-dc","tag-jack-kirby","tag-joe-simon","tag-kirby-krackle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","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=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}