{"id":2422,"date":"2020-05-28T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2020-03-27T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T07:56:56","slug":"398-johnny-thunder-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/398-johnny-thunder-2\/","title":{"rendered":"398 &#8211; Johnny Thunder 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-thunder-black-lightning.png\" alt=\"A panel from All-American Comics #100, June 1948\" class=\"wp-image-2424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-thunder-black-lightning.png 520w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/johnny-thunder-black-lightning-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from All-American Comics #100, June 1948<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2374\">Western<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2363\">craze<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/350-tomahawk\/\">continues<\/a> with the introduction of a new Western character with an old name in All-American Comics #100 (June 1948):  Johnny Thunder!  Yes, just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2348\">six months since Johnny Thunder disappeared from DC comics<\/a>, a completely new character steps in and takes over his name.  Johnny Thunder is a blonde school teacher who has a secret identity as a black-haired adventurer.  Johnny Thunder also heralds the ending of All-American as a superhero comic:  In just three more issues, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-American_Comics\">All-American Comics<\/a> would become All-American Western.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Funny side note:  this Johnny Thunder has a horse for a side kick named Black Lightning.  Another well-known DC name with an obscure origin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western craze continues with the introduction of a new Western character with an old name in All-American Comics #100 (June 1948): Johnny Thunder! Yes, just six months since Johnny Thunder disappeared from DC comics, a completely new character steps in and takes over his name. Johnny Thunder is a blonde school teacher who has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,434,14,115,435,433,396,398],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-418","tag-black-lightning","tag-dc","tag-johnny-thunder","tag-names","tag-pets","tag-superhero-collapse","tag-western-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","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=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}