{"id":3286,"date":"2021-02-25T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2021-01-18T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T04:32:01","slug":"587-not-composite-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/587-not-composite-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"587 &#8211; Not Composite Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-composite-superman-batman.png\" alt=\"A panel from World's Finest #74, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-composite-superman-batman.png 624w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/not-composite-superman-batman-295x300.png 295w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from World&#8217;s Finest #74, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In World&#8217;s Finest #74 (Nov 1954), an alien with the abilities to shape-shift and absorb powers lands on Earth and causes a panic.  Batman and Robin corner it and find out that the alien is good-natured and wants to be a hero, so takes Batman&#8217;s appearance.  This leads to a confrontation with Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"612\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-hitting-batman.png\" alt=\"Another panel from World's Finest #74, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-hitting-batman.png 486w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-hitting-batman-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from World&#8217;s Finest #74, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Which somehow is pretty satisfying.  Of course this leads to the playful alien taking Superman&#8217;s form and we get a battle of titans:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"568\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-v-superman.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from World's Finest #74, November 1954\" class=\"wp-image-3288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-v-superman.png 568w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-v-superman-300x243.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><figcaption>Yet another panel from World&#8217;s Finest #74, November 1954<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately the alien is subdued when Batman realizes it is a child alien and was unaware of the havoc they were causing.  When the alien returns to its home planet it takes the shape of a combination of both Superman and Batman, foreshadowing the eventual creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Composite_Superman\">Composite Superman<\/a> ten years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In World&#8217;s Finest #74 (Nov 1954), an alien with the abilities to shape-shift and absorb powers lands on Earth and causes a panic. Batman and Robin corner it and find out that the alien is good-natured and wants to be a hero, so takes Batman&#8217;s appearance. This leads to a confrontation with Superman. Which somehow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547,40,14,43,294],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-547","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-superman","tag-team-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","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=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}