{"id":3566,"date":"2022-01-17T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:14:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:14:01","slug":"641-captain-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/641-captain-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"641 &#8211; Captain Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-captain-cold.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-captain-cold.png\" alt=\"A panel from Showcase #8, March 1957\" class=\"wp-image-3567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-captain-cold.png 598w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-captain-cold-300x271.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Showcase #8, March 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Showcase #8 (March 1957), the Flash returns and his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogues_(comics)\">rogues gallery<\/a>&#8221; begins with the introduction of Captain Cold. Len Snart, an &#8220;ambitious crook&#8221;, wants a weapon capable of defeating the Flash. By using a cyclotron, he turns his gun into a cold weapon and after abandoning several names (Mr Arctic, The Cold Wave, Sub-Zero, Human Icicle) he settles on &#8220;Captain Cold&#8221;, green glasses, and a fur-fringed hood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Flash also begins to show off some of his more unique powers starting in this issue with his ability to vibrate so fast that he can deform solid metal.<\/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\/11\/195703-vibrate-keyhole.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-vibrate-keyhole.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Showcase #8, March 1957\" class=\"wp-image-3568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-vibrate-keyhole.png 724w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/195703-vibrate-keyhole-300x220.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Another panel from Showcase #8, March 1957<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Showcase #8 (March 1957), the Flash returns and his &#8220;rogues gallery&#8221; begins with the introduction of Captain Cold. Len Snart, an &#8220;ambitious crook&#8221;, wants a weapon capable of defeating the Flash. By using a cyclotron, he turns his gun into a cold weapon and after abandoning several names (Mr Arctic, The Cold Wave, Sub-Zero, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[593,594,14,73,595],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-593","tag-captain-cold","tag-dc","tag-flash","tag-rogues-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","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=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}