{"id":3959,"date":"2022-04-26T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2022-01-08T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T18:07:50","slug":"712-hints-at-the-guardians-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/712-hints-at-the-guardians-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"712 &#8211; Hints at the Guardians of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery-1024x325.png\" alt=\"A panel from Showcase #22, September 1959\" class=\"wp-image-3960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery-1024x325.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery-300x95.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery-768x244.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/195909-green-lantern-mystery.png 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Showcase #23, September 1959<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Lantern makes his second Silver Age appearance in Showcase #23 (Sept 1959). In it, a hint of a mystery is presented by Hal Jordan receiving a message from the Lantern to go check out a problem on the planet Venus. I like how the writers are seeding mysteries and not feeling the need to explain everything in these first couple issues. As a young reader, it must have been a pretty exciting reason to keep reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually Oa, the Guardians of the Universe, and the Green Lantern Corps play a much bigger role in the Green Lantern mythos, but more time is given to the budding love &#8220;triangle&#8221; between Carol Ferris and Green Lantern\/Hal Jordan in these first few stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Lantern makes his second Silver Age appearance in Showcase #23 (Sept 1959). In it, a hint of a mystery is presented by Hal Jordan receiving a message from the Lantern to go check out a problem on the planet Venus. I like how the writers are seeding mysteries and not feeling the need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[613,411,14,74,629,577,637,628,638],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-613","tag-carol-ferris","tag-dc","tag-green-lantern","tag-green-lantern-battery","tag-green-lantern-corps","tag-guardians-of-the-universe","tag-hal-jordan","tag-oa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","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=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions\/3961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}