{"id":3326,"date":"2021-03-09T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2021-10-02T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T04:44:45","slug":"596-superman-thinks-of-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/596-superman-thinks-of-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"596 &#8211; Superman Thinks of the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-1-1.png 620w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-1-1-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Superman #97 (March 1955), Superman thinks about the past instead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3306\">other way around<\/a>.  A crook gives Superman the heads up that something he did as Superboy on his last day in Smallville will net him $1M.  Superman heads back to his old stomping grounds to reminisce on his adventures and try to figure out the crook&#8217;s plan.  The plot is a rather flimsy one to tell a few couple-panel Superboy adventures from the perspective of Superman as an adult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this case, we see the townsfolk of Smallville wishing Superboy a grand goodbye, choking the hero up.  Superboy performs a super-feat, baking an enormous &#8220;super-cake&#8221; for everyone to super-share.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"458\" height=\"686\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-2.png\" alt=\"A super-cake from Superman #97, March 1955\" class=\"wp-image-3332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-2.png 458w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/superman-thinks-of-the-past-2-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><figcaption>A super-cake from Superman #97, March 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of super-feats, well the clue that the criminal was angling for turns out to be lead-covered gold prison bars that Superboy had used in the construction of a new jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Superman #97 (March 1955), Superman thinks about the past instead of the other way around. A crook gives Superman the heads up that something he did as Superboy on his last day in Smallville will net him $1M. Superman heads back to his old stomping grounds to reminisce on his adventures and try to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[565,14,222,304,43],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-565","tag-dc","tag-smallville","tag-superboy","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3458,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions\/3458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}