{"id":3142,"date":"2021-01-08T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2021-06-15T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:23:36","slug":"554-robotman-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/554-robotman-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"554 &#8211; Robotman Retires"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-1.png 584w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-1-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In &#8220;The Human War Machine!&#8221;, a story in Detective Comics #202 (Oct 1953), the Golden Age <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robotman_(Robert_Crane)\">Robotman (Robert Crane)<\/a> makes his final appearance.  In it, he shows off some of his powers one last time.  Including being bullet-proof:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"506\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-2.png 506w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-2-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-2-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as having stretchable arms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-3.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953\" class=\"wp-image-3145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-3.png 584w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/last-robotman-3-300x261.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><figcaption>Yet another panel from Detective Comics #202, October 1953<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>DC will later revive the name and the concept with the Silver Age <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robotman_(Cliff_Steele)\">Robotman (Cliff Steele)<\/a> who is a founding member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doom_Patrol\">Doom Patrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;The Human War Machine!&#8221;, a story in Detective Comics #202 (Oct 1953), the Golden Age Robotman (Robert Crane) makes his final appearance. In it, he shows off some of his powers one last time. Including being bullet-proof: As well as having stretchable arms? DC will later revive the name and the concept with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[525,14,543,99,514,243,445,396],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-525","tag-dc","tag-doom-patrol","tag-golden-age","tag-name-squatting","tag-robotman","tag-silver-age","tag-superhero-collapse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","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=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}