{"id":3682,"date":"2022-02-07T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2021-12-28T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T17:21:49","slug":"656-dr-alchemy-nee-mr-element","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/656-dr-alchemy-nee-mr-element\/","title":{"rendered":"656 &#8211; Dr. Alchemy n\u00e9e Mr. Element"},"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\/12\/195801-mr-element-meets-flash.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-meets-flash.png\" alt=\"A panel from Showcase #13, January 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3683\" width=\"411\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-meets-flash.png 311w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-meets-flash-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Showcase #13, January 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Flash gains another rogue villain in Showcase #13 (January 1958): Mr. Element. In his youth, Albert Desmond became obsessed with elements, so naturally he turned to a life of crime. In order to beat the flash he designed a costume with the emblem of the carbon atom, and an atmosphere filter to only breathe pure oxygen. He named his six underlings after the &#8220;inert&#8221; elements: Argon, Radon, etc.<\/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\/12\/195801-mr-element-origin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-origin.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Showcase #13, January 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3684\" width=\"404\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-origin.png 404w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195801-mr-element-origin-300x262.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Showcase #13, January 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In his next outing, he would rename and re-style himself as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Alchemy\">Dr. Alchemy<\/a>, for which he became better known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flash gains another rogue villain in Showcase #13 (January 1958): Mr. Element. In his youth, Albert Desmond became obsessed with elements, so naturally he turned to a life of crime. In order to beat the flash he designed a costume with the emblem of the carbon atom, and an atmosphere filter to only breathe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,14,599,73,595],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-598","tag-dc","tag-dr-alchemy","tag-flash","tag-rogues-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3685,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}