{"id":3131,"date":"2021-01-12T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3131"},"modified":"2020-12-14T00:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T08:46:48","slug":"556-super-radioactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/556-super-radioactivity\/","title":{"rendered":"556 – Super-Radioactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Action Comics #188, November 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In “The Spectral Superman!”, a story in Action Comics #188 (November 1953), Superman heroically stops a nuclear reactor from exploding in Metropolis. As a result, he finds out his entire body is radioactive… maybe permanently!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another panel from Action Comics #188, November 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A super-sigh from Action Comics #188, November 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite the super-melancholia that descends on Superman, he still manages to foil some criminals, even though his radioactivity continues to drive him into a super-funk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Super-lonely in Action Comics #188, November 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Remember, this is the same guy who callously changed the entire timeline<\/a> of the Earth just so he wouldn’t have to meet and put up with that pestering love-of-his-life Lois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily a well-timed lightning bolt manages to cure Superman of radioactivity before his life gets even more awkward by a suspicious Lois Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

P.S. Jimmy Olsen continues to make regular-but-minor appearances<\/a> in the comic books to match the Adventures of Superman TV series, though his physical appearance is not very consistent. In this issue he seems to have blonde hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In “The Spectral Superman!”, a story in Action Comics #188 (November 1953), Superman heroically stops a nuclear reactor from exploding in Metropolis. As a result, he finds out his entire body is radioactive… maybe permanently! Despite the super-melancholia that descends on Superman, he still manages to foil some criminals, even though his radioactivity continues to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,14,43],"class_list":["post-3131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-dc","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131","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=3131"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3131\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}