{"id":260,"date":"2018-12-19T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T16:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=260"},"modified":"2018-12-25T22:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T06:50:49","slug":"19-sandra-of-the-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/19-sandra-of-the-secret-service\/","title":{"rendered":"19 &#8211; Sandra of the Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"846\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sandra-of-the-secret-service.png\" alt=\"Sandra of the Secret Service, from More Fun Comics #8, 1936\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sandra-of-the-secret-service.png 940w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sandra-of-the-secret-service-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sandra-of-the-secret-service-768x691.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><figcaption>Sandra of the Secret Service, 1936<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With the introduction of its New Comics magazie, National Allied Publications renamed their &#8220;New Fun&#8221; comic to &#8220;More Fun&#8221;.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/comicvine.gamespot.com\/sandra-of-the-secret-service\/4005-63178\/\">Sandra of the Secret Service<\/a> had been present in that magazine since its first issue and is thus the very first example of a female comic book hero.&nbsp; Note that the villain here, Count Taurus, has made the oh-so-common mistake of so many comic book villains by monologuing and revealing how his complicated death device works to the hero (Sandra).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and something&nbsp; happened in January 1936:&nbsp; A third comic book company entered the industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dell_Comics\">Dell Comics<\/a>.&nbsp; Dell starts to print &#8220;Popular Comics&#8221; featuring reprints of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Tracy\">Dick Tracy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Orphan_Annie\">Little Orphan Annie<\/a>, among some strips that originally appeared in Eastern Color&#8217;s &#8220;Famous Funnies&#8221; magazine: Tailspin Tommy and Mutt &amp; Jeff<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the introduction of its New Comics magazie, National Allied Publications renamed their &#8220;New Fun&#8221; comic to &#8220;More Fun&#8221;.&nbsp; Sandra of the Secret Service had been present in that magazine since its first issue and is thus the very first example of a female comic book hero.&nbsp; Note that the villain here, Count Taurus, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,14,28,12,26],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-29","tag-dc","tag-dell-comics","tag-dick-tracy","tag-little-orphan-annie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}