{"id":2972,"date":"2020-11-23T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2020-10-26T23:20:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:20:12","slug":"522-ray-bradbury-credits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/522-ray-bradbury-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"522 &#8211; Ray Bradbury Credits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/weird-science-ray-bradbury.png\" alt=\"A panel from Weird Science #17, October 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/weird-science-ray-bradbury.png 760w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/weird-science-ray-bradbury-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Weird Science #17, October 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently EC comics had a bad habit of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ray_Bradbury#Cultural_contributions\">plagiarizing Ray Bradbury<\/a>&#8216;s short stories for their comic books.  This resulted in the writer sending a letter to EC comics, who decided to credit Ray Bradbury on nearly every cover starting in October 1952.  Above is a panel from a 1948 short story called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Martian_Chronicles#%22The_Long_Years%22_(April_2026\/2057)\">&#8220;The Long Years!&#8221;<\/a> in which an old scientist and his family have been stranded on Mars for over twenty years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently EC comics had a bad habit of plagiarizing Ray Bradbury&#8216;s short stories for their comic books. This resulted in the writer sending a letter to EC comics, who decided to credit Ray Bradbury on nearly every cover starting in October 1952. Above is a panel from a 1948 short story called &#8220;The Long Years!&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,350,249,518,20],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-ec","tag-mars","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972","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=2972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2972\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}