{"id":3231,"date":"2021-02-08T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2021-01-03T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T19:25:24","slug":"574-electro-kinda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/574-electro-kinda\/","title":{"rendered":"574 &#8211; Electro!  Kinda!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"628\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro.png\" alt=\"A panel from Captain America #78, May 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro.png 628w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Captain America #78, May 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Captain America #78 (May 1954), Atlas (Marvel) continues to try to make their superheroes exciting by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3180\">adding new super-villains<\/a>.  This time, the Commies create their own version of a &#8220;super soldier&#8221; to square off against Captain America.  Ivan Kronov is given electrical powers and the name <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Marvel_Comics_characters:_E#Electro\">Electro<\/a>.  Like electric cars, he has one slight flaw:  the need to recharge every so often.  But I think the character design is pretty striking, actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro-splash.png\" alt=\"The splash page from &quot;His Touch Is Death&quot; in Captain America #78, May 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro-splash.png 902w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro-splash-300x291.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/electro-splash-768x746.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><figcaption>The splash page from &#8220;His Touch Is Death&#8221; in Captain America #78, May 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like most long-lived comic book companies, Timely \/ Atlas \/ Marvel reused the same names for new characters.  This was not even the first character named Electro!  Of course the most popular incarnation of a character named &#8220;Electro&#8221; was the Spiderman villain created in the 60s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Captain America #78 (May 1954), Atlas (Marvel) continues to try to make their superheroes exciting by adding new super-villains. This time, the Commies create their own version of a &#8220;super soldier&#8221; to square off against Captain America. Ivan Kronov is given electrical powers and the name Electro. Like electric cars, he has one slight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,118,554,90,514,553],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-captain-america","tag-electro","tag-marvel","tag-name-squatting","tag-superhero-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","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=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3235,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}