{"id":395,"date":"2019-01-02T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=395"},"modified":"2019-01-20T13:25:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:25:21","slug":"33-the-spys-just-not-that-into-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/33-the-spys-just-not-that-into-you\/","title":{"rendered":"33 &#8211; The Spy&#8217;s Just Not That Into You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/spy-1024x954.png\" alt=\"A panel from &quot;Spy&quot; in Detective Comics #2, March 1937\" class=\"wp-image-396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/spy-1024x954.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/spy-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/spy-768x715.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/spy.png 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Spy, March 1937<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1937, Siegel &amp; Shuster had five comic strips going in National Allied Publications \/ DC Comics.&nbsp; &#8220;Spy&#8221; debuted in Detective Comics #1, but the dynamic between Bart Regan (newly minted spy for Uncle Sam) and his ex-fiance Sally Norris started taking shape in the second issue, March 1937.&nbsp; Sally became Bart&#8217;s reluctant sidekick \/ damsel in distress while Bart tries to hide that he is now a spy.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of Joe Shuster&#8217;s heroes look alike: Doctor Occult, Steve Carson (Federal Men), Sandy Kean (Radio Squad), and Bart Regan (Spy) all kind resemble early Superman: slicked-back dark hair, square jaw, etc.&nbsp; The only standout is Slam Bradley, who had his own look (red-haired and usually shirtless).<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By 1937, Siegel &amp; Shuster had five comic strips going in National Allied Publications \/ DC Comics.&nbsp; &#8220;Spy&#8221; debuted in Detective Comics #1, but the dynamic between Bart Regan (newly minted spy for Uncle Sam) and his ex-fiance Sally Norris started taking shape in the second issue, March 1937.&nbsp; Sally became Bart&#8217;s reluctant sidekick \/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,48,39,24,25,147,47],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-44","tag-bart-regan","tag-detective-comics","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-sidekick","tag-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}