{"id":3334,"date":"2021-03-10T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3334"},"modified":"2021-02-07T23:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:39:22","slug":"597-robot-clarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/597-robot-clarks\/","title":{"rendered":"597 &#8211; Robot Clarks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/clark-robot.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/clark-robot.png 590w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/clark-robot-300x280.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #212, March 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Adventure Comics #212, Superboy creates a Robot Clark to get him out of a secret identity jam &#8211; although this isn&#8217;t the first use of a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/503-clark-bot\/\">Clark bot<\/a>&#8220;.  The use of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman_robots\">super robots<\/a>&#8221; was frequent throughout the Silver Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the grand scheme of things, the super-robots are kind of just a blip on the Silver Age radar.  The development of the Silver Age of Comic Books was complex and took a long time, with well-known characters going through Silver Age evolutions at different times.  As I&#8217;ve said before, I consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/417-smallville\/\">Superboy the first true Silver Age character<\/a>, followed closely by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/430-kryptonite\/\">Superman when he learned about kryptonite and his origins<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Adventure Comics #212, Superboy creates a Robot Clark to get him out of a secret identity jam &#8211; although this isn&#8217;t the first use of a &#8220;Clark bot&#8220;. The use of &#8220;super robots&#8221; was frequent throughout the Silver Age. In the grand scheme of things, the super-robots are kind of just a blip on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[565,14,486,445,497,304],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-565","tag-dc","tag-early-silver","tag-silver-age","tag-super-robots","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","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=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3339,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions\/3339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}