{"id":3753,"date":"2022-02-28T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2021-12-21T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:39:13","slug":"671-adam-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/671-adam-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"671 &#8211; Adam Strange!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Showcase #17, September 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3754\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-1.png 210w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-1-123x300.png 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Showcase #17, September 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Another DC newcomer in Showcase #17 (Sept 1958) in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adam_Strange\">Adam Strange<\/a>. Archaeologist Adam Strange accidentally leaps into a Zeta beam striking Earth at just the right moment and finds himself on the planet Rann. After being put through the &#8220;Menticizer&#8221;, he is able to understand the language and that the babe is Allana and the bald-headed creepy scientist is her farther Sardath. Weird that the people of Rann call their sun &#8220;Alpha Centauri&#8221; huh?<\/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\/12\/195809-adam-strange-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-2.png 344w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-2-300x276.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><meta charset=\"utf-8\">Another panel from Showcase #17, September 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Strange was created by Julius Schwartz and stories were written by Gardner Fox, re-surfacing from the Golden Age to become a prominent player in DC&#8217;s Silver Age (he would re-tool his Justice Society concept in a couple more years as the Justice League). In this first issue, Adam&#8217;s hair alternates between reddish brown and blonde &#8211; get it right Murphy Anderson! \ud83d\ude42<\/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\/12\/195809-adam-strange-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-3.png\" alt=\"Yet another panel from Showcase #17, Sept 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-3.png 333w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195809-adam-strange-3-282x300.png 282w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Yet another panel from Showcase #17, Sept 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another DC newcomer in Showcase #17 (Sept 1958) in Adam Strange. Archaeologist Adam Strange accidentally leaps into a Zeta beam striking Earth at just the right moment and finds himself on the planet Rann. After being put through the &#8220;Menticizer&#8221;, he is able to understand the language and that the babe is Allana and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,479,14,80,485,20,326],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-598","tag-adam-strange","tag-dc","tag-gardner-fox","tag-julius-schwartz","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","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=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3758,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}