{"id":3771,"date":"2022-03-04T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3771"},"modified":"2021-12-24T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T20:12:39","slug":"675-congorilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/675-congorilla\/","title":{"rendered":"675 &#8211; Congorilla"},"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\/195811-congorilla-congo-bill.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" height=\"474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195811-congorilla-congo-bill.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #248, November 1958\" class=\"wp-image-3772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195811-congorilla-congo-bill.png 380w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/195811-congorilla-congo-bill-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #248, November 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Action Comics #248 (Nov 1958), Congo Bill, an adventure character that had run for 17 years as a backup strip in Action Comics is transformed by a magic ring into <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Congorilla\">Congorilla<\/a> &#8211; the body of Congo Bill inside the body of a powerful ape. This is another sign that the market&#8217;s interest in superheroes had picked up again &#8211; but really, what was this fascination with apes going on in the mid-20th century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Action Comics #248 (Nov 1958), Congo Bill, an adventure character that had run for 17 years as a backup strip in Action Comics is transformed by a magic ring into Congorilla &#8211; the body of Congo Bill inside the body of a powerful ape. This is another sign that the market&#8217;s interest in superheroes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[598,57,610,609,608,14],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-598","tag-action-comics","tag-apes","tag-congo-bill","tag-congorilla","tag-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}