{"id":3496,"date":"2021-12-27T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T05:42:19","slug":"626-bug-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/626-bug-invaders\/","title":{"rendered":"626 &#8211; Bug Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-the-bugs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-the-bugs.png\" alt=\"A panel from World of Mystery #3, July 1956\" class=\"wp-image-3497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-the-bugs.png 340w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-the-bugs-183x300.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from World of Mystery #3, July 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Marvel&#8217;s World of Mystery #3 (July 1956), a young boy and his farmer father encounter what appears to be a small space ship and some &#8220;bugs&#8221; in their barn. The father dismisses it all as &#8220;junk&#8221; and tosses it away, but the big reveal comes in the last couple panels: The &#8220;junk&#8221; is really Earth&#8217;s first attempt at an interstellar rocket and the bugs are actually humans &#8211; the farm dwellers are giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-bugs-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"372\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-bugs-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from &quot;The Bugs&quot; in World of Mystery #3, July 1956\" class=\"wp-image-3498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-bugs-2.png 372w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195607-bugs-2-300x262.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 372px) 100vw, 372px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Another panel from &#8220;The Bugs&#8221; in World of Mystery #3, July 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is almost exactly the same plot as the 1961 Twilight Zone episode &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Invaders_(The_Twilight_Zone)\">The Invaders<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Marvel&#8217;s World of Mystery #3 (July 1956), a young boy and his farmer father encounter what appears to be a small space ship and some &#8220;bugs&#8221; in their barn. The father dismisses it all as &#8220;junk&#8221; and tosses it away, but the big reveal comes in the last couple panels: The &#8220;junk&#8221; is really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,90,326,495],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-578","tag-marvel","tag-space-travel","tag-twilight-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","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=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}