{"id":2512,"date":"2020-06-30T06:59:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T13:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2020-08-09T20:20:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T03:20:51","slug":"421-lovely-rita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/421-lovely-rita\/","title":{"rendered":"421 &#8211; Lovely Rita"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-rita.png\" alt=\"An ad from Captain America #73, March 1949\" class=\"wp-image-2513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-rita.png 624w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-rita-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>An ad for a Rita doll from Captain America #73, March 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>March 1949 ends another Timely (Marvel) superhero solo book with Captain America #73 (March 1949).  With its next issue, it becomes &#8220;Captain America&#8217;s Weird Tales&#8221;, a horror comic, which maybe was fore-shadowed by the truly macabre ads for toys in this issue.  Pictured above is Rita, a babygirl doll with long vivacious red hair that drinks, wets her diaper, has &#8220;squeezable rubber wonder-skin&#8221; and beckons at you with her eyes as if to say &#8220;How shall I kill you tonight?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying the ad for Rita is another probably unintentionally spooky ad for &#8220;Buddy Bear&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-buddy-bear.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-buddy-bear.png 560w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/scary-buddy-bear-300x260.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption>An ad for a Buddy Bear doll from Captain America #73, March 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The drawings are bad enough, but who thought it made sense to make a toy bear with &#8220;flashing electric eyes&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seriously these toys are like ten times scarier than the twisted versions of toys that were tortured by &#8220;Sid&#8221; in Toy Story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 1949 ends another Timely (Marvel) superhero solo book with Captain America #73 (March 1949). With its next issue, it becomes &#8220;Captain America&#8217;s Weird Tales&#8221;, a horror comic, which maybe was fore-shadowed by the truly macabre ads for toys in this issue. Pictured above is Rita, a babygirl doll with long vivacious red hair that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,41,118,397,90,396],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-advertising","tag-captain-america","tag-horror-comics","tag-marvel","tag-superhero-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","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=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2515,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions\/2515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}