{"id":3503,"date":"2021-12-29T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2021-12-01T21:42:46","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T05:42:46","slug":"628-charles-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/628-charles-king\/","title":{"rendered":"628 &#8211; Charles King"},"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\/195608-charles-king.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195608-charles-king.png\" alt=\"A panel from Adventure Comics #229, August 1956\" class=\"wp-image-3504\" width=\"413\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195608-charles-king.png 512w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/195608-charles-king-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Adventure Comics #229, August 1956<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A meteor destroys the Kents home just as they are prepping for a camping trip in Adventure Comics #229 (August 1956). Because there was an eyewitness, the Kents decide to start new identities as the &#8220;Kings&#8221; in Centerville, with Clark adopting the name Charles King. Typical minor plots like Charles meeting &#8220;Millie&#8221;, a Lana substitute ensue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Superboy ends up learning that the eyewitness was actually blind, so he rebuilds the original Kents home and they return from their &#8220;camping trip&#8221; to Smallville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name Charles King made its way into the 90s Lois &amp; Clark TV show as an <a href=\"https:\/\/lois-and-clark-the-new-adventures-of-superman.fandom.com\/wiki\/Clark_Kent\/Alternate_Identities\">alternative identity<\/a> that Clark took on in one episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meteor destroys the Kents home just as they are prepping for a camping trip in Adventure Comics #229 (August 1956). Because there was an eyewitness, the Kents decide to start new identities as the &#8220;Kings&#8221; in Centerville, with Clark adopting the name Charles King. Typical minor plots like Charles meeting &#8220;Millie&#8221;, a Lana substitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[578,14,464,235,222,304],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-578","tag-dc","tag-lana-lang","tag-secret-identity","tag-smallville","tag-superboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","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=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}