{"id":3127,"date":"2021-01-07T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:13:36","slug":"553-more-super-apes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/553-more-super-apes\/","title":{"rendered":"553 &#8211; More Super Apes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"818\" height=\"656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/captain-comet-super-apes.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/captain-comet-super-apes.png 818w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/captain-comet-super-apes-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/captain-comet-super-apes-768x616.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Strange Adventures #39, October 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3117\">monkeys<\/a>, Captain Comet has his second encounter with a &#8220;super-ape&#8221; in Strange Adventures #39 (October 1953).  This super-ape has advanced intelligence and telepathy and is Captain Comet&#8217;s first re-occurring villain in his roster.  Origin-wise, this seems to be almost identical to the Silver Age Flash&#8217;s villain Grodd and the race of super apes found in Africa, though I don&#8217;t know if these were ever joined in some future continuity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of monkeys, Captain Comet has his second encounter with a &#8220;super-ape&#8221; in Strange Adventures #39 (October 1953). This super-ape has advanced intelligence and telepathy and is Captain Comet&#8217;s first re-occurring villain in his roster. Origin-wise, this seems to be almost identical to the Silver Age Flash&#8217;s villain Grodd and the race of super apes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,610,483,271,14,103],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-apes","tag-captain-comet","tag-continuity","tag-dc","tag-grodd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127","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=3127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3127\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}