{"id":2295,"date":"2020-04-17T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2020-02-15T11:16:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T19:16:40","slug":"369-giant-bat-penny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/369-giant-bat-penny\/","title":{"rendered":"369 &#8211; Giant Bat Penny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/batcave-penny.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;The Penny Plunderers&quot; in World's Finest #30, July 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/batcave-penny.png 704w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/batcave-penny-300x237.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from &#8220;The Penny Plunderers&#8221; in World&#8217;s Finest #30, July 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most iconic pieces of memorabilia in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batcave\">Batcave<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.fandom.com\/wiki\/Giant_Penny\">giant Lincoln Penny<\/a>.  In World&#8217;s Finest Comics #30 (July 1947), &#8220;The Penny Plunderers&#8221; introduces this giant penny when Batman and Robin foil Joe Coyne, aka &#8220;The Penny Plunderer&#8221;, who, like most of Batman&#8217;s villains has some gimmick around which they base all their crimes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crazy-joe-coyne.png\" alt=\"Another panel from World's Finest #30, July 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crazy-joe-coyne.png 484w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crazy-joe-coyne-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/crazy-joe-coyne-300x298.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from World&#8217;s Finest #30, July 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The giant coin itself comes from a coin &amp; stamp exhibition and is used to bowl over some thugs and is not really used in the story in any way other than as a visual, nor is it described how Batman and Robin decided to take possession of it.  How did that conversation go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most iconic pieces of memorabilia in the Batcave is a giant Lincoln Penny. In World&#8217;s Finest Comics #30 (July 1947), &#8220;The Penny Plunderers&#8221; introduces this giant penny when Batman and Robin foil Joe Coyne, aka &#8220;The Penny Plunderer&#8221;, who, like most of Batman&#8217;s villains has some gimmick around which they base all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,184,40,14,393],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-batcave","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}