{"id":3283,"date":"2021-02-24T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2021-01-18T20:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T04:18:54","slug":"586-goodbye-johnny-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/586-goodbye-johnny-quick\/","title":{"rendered":"586 &#8211; Goodbye Johnny Quick!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/goodbye-johnny-quick.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #207, October 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/goodbye-johnny-quick.png 642w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/goodbye-johnny-quick-300x256.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #207, October 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Adventure Comics #207 (October 1954), Johnny Quick has his last adventure of the 1950s, making him the last Golden Age superhero DC retires in this tail end of the superhero decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a forgettable tale (other than force-feeding his sidekick Tubby Watts hamburgers to drown his heartache), but it does mean that DC will be without a speedster for about two years until the new Flash (Barry Allen) makes his appearance and kicks off the Silver Age in 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why Johnny Quick did not survive into the Silver Age when other B-lister superheroes like the Green Arrow and Aquaman did.  There&#8217;s probably a story there &#8211; maybe someone had started to think about reviving the Flash already?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Adventure Comics #207 (October 1954), Johnny Quick has his last adventure of the 1950s, making him the last Golden Age superhero DC retires in this tail end of the superhero decline. It&#8217;s a forgettable tale (other than force-feeding his sidekick Tubby Watts hamburgers to drown his heartache), but it does mean that DC will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,14,73,216,114,553],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-dc","tag-flash","tag-johnny-quick","tag-speedster","tag-superhero-revival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","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=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}