{"id":3015,"date":"2020-12-04T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2020-11-08T10:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T18:25:01","slug":"531-not-man-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/531-not-man-bat\/","title":{"rendered":"531 &#8211; Not Man-Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/not-man-bat.png\" alt=\"A panel from Batman #76, February 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/not-man-bat.png 674w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/not-man-bat-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Batman #76, February 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While EC was producing some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3010\">most thought-provoking stories of their time<\/a>, I can&#8217;t say the same thing was happening over at DC.  In Batman #76 (February 1953), the Penguin escapes and starts assaulting Gotham City with giant mythical birds that appear to have powers.  Amidst basilisks, dragons, and rocs, the Penguin introduced a &#8220;man-bat&#8221;.  No, not that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Man-Bat\">Man-Bat<\/a>.  And these were not real creatures either.  These just happens to be believable mechanical constructions that the Penguin was somehow able to produce.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While EC was producing some of the most thought-provoking stories of their time, I can&#8217;t say the same thing was happening over at DC. In Batman #76 (February 1953), the Penguin escapes and starts assaulting Gotham City with giant mythical birds that appear to have powers. Amidst basilisks, dragons, and rocs, the Penguin introduced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,40,14,229],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-penguin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}