{"id":250,"date":"2018-12-18T08:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T16:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=250"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:53:59","slug":"18-steve-carson-federal-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/18-steve-carson-federal-man\/","title":{"rendered":"18 &#8211; Steve Carson, Federal Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men.png\" alt=\"Federal Men from New Comics #2, December 1935.\" class=\"wp-image-251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men.png 784w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-768x713.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><figcaption>Federal Men, 1935<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In December 1935, New Comics #2 featured a 4-page story called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/comicvine.gamespot.com\/steve-carson\/4005-63023\/\">Federal Men<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Siegel\">Jerry Siegel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Shuster\">Joe Shuster<\/a>.&nbsp; Steve Carson was an FBI agent in the 1930s.&nbsp; The bad guy&#8217;s girl is named Kate Lane, she comes to her senses just in time for her villainous boyfriend, Walsh, to kill her in the heat of the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latter two pages of the story have no indication that Siegel &amp; Shuster were looking to sell this series to a newspaper since there was no space for a title header.&nbsp; Could this be the first true 4-page comic book story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s my attachment to the early Superman era, but there&#8217;s something I really love about Shuster&#8217;s artwork in those early days.&nbsp; The brooding, the boldness, and the sturdiness of the characters.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 1935, New Comics #2 featured a 4-page story called &#8220;Federal Men&#8221; by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.&nbsp; Steve Carson was an FBI agent in the 1930s.&nbsp; The bad guy&#8217;s girl is named Kate Lane, she comes to her senses just in time for her villainous boyfriend, Walsh, to kill her in the heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14,32,24,25],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-13","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","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=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}