{"id":328,"date":"2018-12-28T08:01:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=328"},"modified":"2019-10-19T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T18:07:58","slug":"28-steve-smash-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/28-steve-smash-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"28 &#8211; Steve Smash Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"698\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-robot-698x1024.png\" alt=\"A page from Federal Men, New Comics #10.  October 1936.\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-robot-698x1024.png 698w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-robot-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-robot-768x1126.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/federal-men-robot.png 1188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><figcaption>Federal Men, October 1936.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster continue to lean heavy into the sci-fi angle for their comic strips.&nbsp; In October 1936, New Comics #10 features Steve Carson, an FBI agent infiltrating a secret criminal organization and then heroically commandeering an out-of-control giant robot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really love the art here by Joe Shuster, the use of the full page for the robot and city destruction is effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over in More Fun Comics #16, Doctor Occult learns the origin of Koth, arch-foe of The Seven.&nbsp; Turns out Koth is the lone survivor from a space expedition thousands of years ago, where all of his fellow crew members were attacked and killed by primordial men.&nbsp; This is a decidedly science fiction explanation in a comic that relies heavily on mysteries of the supernatural.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster continue to lean heavy into the sci-fi angle for their comic strips.&nbsp; In October 1936, New Comics #10 features Steve Carson, an FBI agent infiltrating a secret criminal organization and then heroically commandeering an out-of-control giant robot. I really love the art here by Joe Shuster, the use of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,288,14,31,24,25,20],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-29","tag-artwork","tag-dc","tag-federal-men","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}