{"id":2661,"date":"2020-08-18T07:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2020-07-26T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T02:36:28","slug":"456-marvel-boy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/456-marvel-boy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"456 &#8211; Marvel Boy 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/marvel-boy-2-650x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from Marvel Boy #1, August 1950\" class=\"wp-image-2662\" width=\"386\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/marvel-boy-2-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/marvel-boy-2-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/marvel-boy-2.png 746w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Marvel Boy #1, August 1950<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In August 1950, Timely (Marvel) Comics gave superheroes one more shot with the introduction of Marvel Boy #1, created by Stan Lee and Russ Heath.  Marvel Boy was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marvel_Boy_(Robert_Grayson)\">Robert Grayson<\/a>, the son of a Jewish scientist who fled the Earth during World War II when his wife was killed and ended up in Uranus.  This Marvel Boy completely ignores the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/212-marvel-boy\/\">Marvel Boy of 1942<\/a>.  Marvel Boy had mental telepathy and could &#8220;run faster and fight a little harder&#8221;, but was weaker on Earth and had to take pills once every 24 hours to give his himself a boost.  He also had a jewel that could blind people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this first issue, Marvel Boy defends the new continent of Atlantis from squabbling pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August 1950, Timely (Marvel) Comics gave superheroes one more shot with the introduction of Marvel Boy #1, created by Stan Lee and Russ Heath. Marvel Boy was Robert Grayson, the son of a Jewish scientist who fled the Earth during World War II when his wife was killed and ended up in Uranus. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,90,468],"class_list":["post-2661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-458","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-boy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661","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=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}