{"id":3433,"date":"2021-12-06T15:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T04:40:19","slug":"611-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/611-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"611 &#8211; Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-fireman-farrell.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-fireman-farrell.png\" alt=\"A panel from Showcase #1, Jan 1956\" class=\"wp-image-3434\" width=\"502\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-fireman-farrell.png 668w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-fireman-farrell-300x252.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Showcase #1, Jan 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>January 1956 brings a new DC mag called &#8220;Showcase&#8221; to the stands. Showcase&#8217;s ostensible concept was to feature requested stories from readers in a &#8220;try-out&#8221; period. This first issue features stories about a regular fireman called &#8220;Fireman Farrell&#8221;. Later, of course, Showcase very soon would be used to feature new superheroes like the Challengers of the Unknown and the Silver Age Flash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-idea.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-idea.png\" alt=\"The concept behind DC's Showcase, from Showcase #1, Jan 1956\" class=\"wp-image-3435\" width=\"489\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-idea.png 612w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195601-showcase-idea-300x279.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The concept behind DC&#8217;s Showcase, from Showcase #1, Jan 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1956 brings a new DC mag called &#8220;Showcase&#8221; to the stands. Showcase&#8217;s ostensible concept was to feature requested stories from readers in a &#8220;try-out&#8221; period. This first issue features stories about a regular fireman called &#8220;Fireman Farrell&#8221;. Later, of course, Showcase very soon would be used to feature new superheroes like the Challengers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,580,14,73,579,445],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-578","tag-challengers-of-the-unknown","tag-dc","tag-flash","tag-showcase","tag-silver-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","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=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}