{"id":297,"date":"2018-12-23T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T16:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=297"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:06:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:06:14","slug":"23-the-golden-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/23-the-golden-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"23 &#8211; The Golden Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/golden-idol-1024x487.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;The Golden Idol&quot; in Centaur Publications' Comics Magazine #2, May 1936.\" class=\"wp-image-298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/golden-idol-1024x487.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/golden-idol-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/golden-idol-768x366.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Jim Collins in The Golden Idol, 1936<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In May 1936, Centaur Publications released Comic Magazine #2 containing a first in comic book history: a full 7-page comic book story.&nbsp; This was a departure from everything else being published in comic books at the time since it was also a self-contained story having a beginning, middle and end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pulpartists.com\/Cooper-Tom.html\">Tom Cooper<\/a>, who was pretty active in the pre-Golden Age.&nbsp; He also did many strips in early DC comics: &#8220;Along the Main Line&#8221;, &#8220;Buckskin Jim&#8221;, &#8220;Midshipman Dewey&#8221;, &#8220;Castaway Island&#8221; and illustrated &#8220;17-20 on the Black&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Comic Magazine #2 also featured another 4-page story by Tom Cooper, &#8220;The Black Lagoon&#8221; which included a dramatic full-page panel at its conclusion, which might be another first.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May 1936, Centaur Publications released Comic Magazine #2 containing a first in comic book history: a full 7-page comic book story.&nbsp; This was a departure from everything else being published in comic books at the time since it was also a self-contained story having a beginning, middle and end. It was by Tom Cooper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,35,14,32,36],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-29","tag-centaur","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-tom-cooper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","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=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}