{"id":3796,"date":"2022-03-14T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3796"},"modified":"2024-12-15T17:15:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T01:15:49","slug":"681-not-quite-negative-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/681-not-quite-negative-man\/","title":{"rendered":"681 &#8211; Not Quite Negative Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby-1024x477.png\" alt=\"A panel from The House of Mystery #84, January 1959\" class=\"wp-image-3797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby-1024x477.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195901-negative-man-kirby.png 1034w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A panel from House of Mystery #84, January 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>In House of Mystery #84 (Jan 1959), a one-off story called &#8220;Negative Man&#8221; drawn by Jack Kirby has a scientist accidentally get a near-fatal dose of radio energy which causes a being made of pure energy to come out of his body. The being is eventually defeated by coming into contact with first water, then the scientist&#8217;s body. The overall concept of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negative_Man\">Negative Man<\/a> powered by radio waves\/energy will be recycled as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doom_Patrol\">Doom Patrol<\/a> a few years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In House of Mystery #84 (Jan 1959), a one-off story called &#8220;Negative Man&#8221; drawn by Jack Kirby has a scientist accidentally get a near-fatal dose of radio energy which causes a being made of pure energy to come out of his body. The being is eventually defeated by coming into contact with first water, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,14,543,161,614],"class_list":["post-3796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-613","tag-dc","tag-doom-patrol","tag-jack-kirby","tag-negative-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796","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=3796"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4851,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3796\/revisions\/4851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}