{"id":2428,"date":"2020-05-29T08:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2020-05-02T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:53:20","slug":"399-moar-female-sidekicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/399-moar-female-sidekicks\/","title":{"rendered":"399 &#8211; Moar Female Sidekicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gimmick-girl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gimmick-girl.png 602w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gimmick-girl-300x259.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Star Spangled Comics #81, June 1948<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2392\">mentioned<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2413\">previously,<\/a> lots of male superheroes were being given sexy female sidekicks as replacement for their teenage \/ young boy sidekicks in 1948.  Merry, Sylvester Pemberton&#8217;s newly adopted sister, becomes Gimmick Girl in Star Spangled Comics #81 (June 1948).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sun-girl.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sun-girl.png 500w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sun-girl-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Sun Girl #1, June 1948<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Timely (Marvel) side, the Human Torch ditches Toro for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sun_Girl_(Marvel_Comics)\">Sun Girl<\/a> who even gets her own solo magazine.  Little is explained about Sun Girl, though apparently she was the Human Torch&#8217;s secretary and had no superpowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned previously, lots of male superheroes were being given sexy female sidekicks as replacement for their teenage \/ young boy sidekicks in 1948. Merry, Sylvester Pemberton&#8217;s newly adopted sister, becomes Gimmick Girl in Star Spangled Comics #81 (June 1948). On the Timely (Marvel) side, the Human Torch ditches Toro for Sun Girl who even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,14,429,91,90,437,147,412,220,438,177],"class_list":["post-2428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-418","tag-dc","tag-gimmick-girl","tag-human-torch","tag-marvel","tag-sidechicks","tag-sidekick","tag-sidekick-less","tag-star-spangled-kid","tag-sun-girl","tag-toro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428","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=2428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2431,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428\/revisions\/2431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}