{"id":315,"date":"2018-12-26T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T16:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=315"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:35:33","slug":"26-capes-and-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/26-capes-and-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"26 &#8211; Capes and Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"973\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/doctor-occult-capes-1024x973.png\" alt=\"Doctor Occult from More Fun Comics #14, August 1936\" class=\"wp-image-317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/doctor-occult-capes-1024x973.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/doctor-occult-capes-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/doctor-occult-capes-768x730.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/doctor-occult-capes.png 1564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Doctor Occult, August 1936<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>August 1936 creeps the industry ever-closer to a full-fledged superhero, with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Occult\">Doctor Occult<\/a> meeting The Seven, donning a skin-tight uniform with a symbol on its chest and a red cape, and then flying through the ether to Egypt.&nbsp; Clearly Siegel and Shuster were playing with their crazy Superman idea in other strips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that this is a full six months before <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phantom_(comics)\">The Phantom<\/a> first appeared (in newspapers), which seems to dispute the idea that The Phantom was the first superhero to appear in a skintight costume.\u00a0 On the other hand, this is just a one-off for Doctor Occult and not his official costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of skin-tight, is that a cameltoe?<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 1936 creeps the industry ever-closer to a full-fledged superhero, with Doctor Occult meeting The Seven, donning a skin-tight uniform with a symbol on its chest and a red cape, and then flying through the ether to Egypt.&nbsp; Clearly Siegel and Shuster were playing with their crazy Superman idea in other strips. Note that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,14,23,32,24,25,38,46,33],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-29","tag-dc","tag-doctor-occult","tag-firsts","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-magic","tag-phantom","tag-superhero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}