{"id":2563,"date":"2020-07-16T08:17:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2020-06-21T09:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:28:29","slug":"433-heat-vision-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/433-heat-vision-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"433 – Heat Vision Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Action Comics #139, October 1949<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Only one month after Superboy first uses his heat-vision<\/a>, Superman does the same in Action Comics #139 (Oct 1949). In a typical lazy-writer stunt of the time, Superman sets fire to an old covered bridge to force the criminal driver into the river. Why not just use your super-speed to catch the car? At least we see a thought bubble where Superman plans to rebuild the bridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story is mostly about Clark Kent acting like a daredevil to maintain his job, since the publisher wants Perry White to trim the staff. Lois Lane re-treads the by-this-time-tired idea that Clark is Superman. Superman foils her attempts by using super-ventriloquism, a wax dummy, and a gas-filled balloon that looks like Superman – demonstrating yet again how lazy writing can destroy otherwise intelligent characters for the sake of the plot-of-the-month..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only one month after Superboy first uses his heat-vision, Superman does the same in Action Comics #139 (Oct 1949). In a typical lazy-writer stunt of the time, Superman sets fire to an old covered bridge to force the criminal driver into the river. Why not just use your super-speed to catch the car? At least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[448,149,14,405,11,235,43],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-448","tag-clark-kent","tag-dc","tag-lazy-writing","tag-lois-lane","tag-secret-identity","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2565,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/2565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}