{"id":2765,"date":"2020-09-23T07:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2021-10-04T19:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T02:22:25","slug":"479-captain-comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/479-captain-comet\/","title":{"rendered":"479 &#8211; Captain Comet!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet.png\" alt=\"Captain Comet's first appearance in Strange Adventures #9 (April 1950)\" class=\"wp-image-2766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet.png 450w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-140x300.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Captain Comet&#8217;s first appearance in Strange Adventures #9 (April 1950)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Blake is DC Comics&#8217; first mutant, a man who is born 100,000 before his time and thus is further along in humanity&#8217;s evolution.  He has extreme smarts, reflexes, no muscle fatigue, ESP, and telekinesis, the ability to control matter with his mind.  He takes on the mantle of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_Comet\">Captain Comet<\/a> to fight science fiction menaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"456\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-mutant.png\" alt=\"Adam Blake is a mutant, in Strange Adventures #9 (April 1951)\" class=\"wp-image-2767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-mutant.png 456w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-mutant-146x300.png 146w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><figcaption>Adam Blake is a mutant, in Strange Adventures #9 (April 1951)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Comet was created by editor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julius_Schwartz\">Julius Schwartz<\/a>, writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Broome_(writer)\">John Broome<\/a> and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carmine_Infantino\">Carmine Infantino<\/a>.  He was one of the few superheroes created in the early 1950s, during what I&#8217;m calling the &#8220;Early Silver Age&#8221; of Comics Books.  He debuted in Strange Adventures #9 (April 1950).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-bulletproof.png\" alt=\"Captain Comet controlling bullets in Strange Adventures #9, April 1951\" class=\"wp-image-2768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-bulletproof.png 450w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/captain-comet-bulletproof-139x300.png 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption>Captain Comet controlling bullets in Strange Adventures #9, April 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In later years, Captain Comet would join the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L.E.G.I.O.N.\">L.E.G.I.O.N.<\/a> during the 1980s\/90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Blake is DC Comics&#8217; first mutant, a man who is born 100,000 before his time and thus is further along in humanity&#8217;s evolution. He has extreme smarts, reflexes, no muscle fatigue, ESP, and telekinesis, the ability to control matter with his mind. He takes on the mantle of Captain Comet to fight science fiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,483,407,14,486,408,485,584,20],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-476","tag-captain-comet","tag-carmine-infantino","tag-dc","tag-early-silver","tag-john-broome","tag-julius-schwartz","tag-mutants","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3477,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/3477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}