{"id":2894,"date":"2020-10-29T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T15:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2020-10-12T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T08:25:15","slug":"505-firefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/505-firefly\/","title":{"rendered":"505 &#8211; Firefly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Detective Comics #184, April 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-1.png 674w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-1-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Detective Comics #184, April 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Detective Comics #184 (April 1952), a new Batman villain arises:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firefly_(DC_Comics)\">The Firefly<\/a>!  The Firefly is Garfield Lynns, the world&#8217;s foremost lighting-effects genius, who is bitter at lack of recognition and becomes a criminal.  After being chased by Batman and Robin, he is saved by a firefly distracting the dynamic duo and decides to take on that namesake, and concocts a ridiculous costume that I could have drawn as an 8-year old:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Detective Comics #184, April 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-2.png 632w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/firefly-2-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Detective Comics #184, April 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Wikipedia, the modern incarnation of the Firefly is much more of an interesting villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Detective Comics #184 (April 1952), a new Batman villain arises: The Firefly! The Firefly is Garfield Lynns, the world&#8217;s foremost lighting-effects genius, who is bitter at lack of recognition and becomes a criminal. After being chased by Batman and Robin, he is saved by a firefly distracting the dynamic duo and decides to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,40,14,81],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-supervillain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894","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=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}