{"id":2313,"date":"2020-04-23T08:43:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T15:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2020-02-16T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T19:49:27","slug":"373-atomic-anachronism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/373-atomic-anachronism\/","title":{"rendered":"373 &#8211; Atomic Anachronism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/superboy-radium-anachronism.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #121, August 1947\" class=\"wp-image-2314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/superboy-radium-anachronism.png 684w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/superboy-radium-anachronism-300x291.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #121, August 1947<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2115\">anachronisms in Superboy stories<\/a> keep coming with Adventure Comics #121 (August 1947).  Superboy helps cheat in a &#8220;collector competition&#8221; by finding a rock that can be used as a source of radium and uranium, which are acknowledged as &#8220;principal raw materials for atomic energy&#8221;.  Even being generous and saying these stories take place 20 years before the current Superman stories of 1947, that would place these stories at 1927, well before atomic energy was a thing.  Lazy writing \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anachronisms in Superboy stories keep coming with Adventure Comics #121 (August 1947). Superboy helps cheat in a &#8220;collector competition&#8221; by finding a rock that can be used as a source of radium and uranium, which are acknowledged as &#8220;principal raw materials for atomic energy&#8221;. Even being generous and saying these stories take place 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[363,404,338,14,405,304],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-363","tag-anachronism","tag-atomics","tag-dc","tag-lazy-writing","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}