{"id":399,"date":"2019-01-03T08:47:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T16:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=399"},"modified":"2020-11-08T19:33:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T03:33:24","slug":"34-the-dripping-claws-of-the-red-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/34-the-dripping-claws-of-the-red-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"34 &#8211; The Dripping Claws of the Red Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/claws-of-red-dragon-1024x794.png\" alt=\"Claws of the Red Dragon from Detective Comics #3, April 1937\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/claws-of-red-dragon-1024x794.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/claws-of-red-dragon-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/claws-of-red-dragon-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/claws-of-red-dragon.png 1950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Claws of the Red Dragon, April 1937<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Detective Comics brought not only lengthier stories, but also stories of a more graphic nature.&nbsp; April 1937 featured the continuation of &#8220;The Claws of the Red Dragon&#8221; by Tom Hickey.&nbsp; This series followed Bruce Nelson through a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Peril\">Yellow Peril<\/a>&#8221; story.&nbsp; Like other forms of period racism, reading these stories can make one uncomfortable.&nbsp; We are certainly a long way from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crazy_Rich_Asians_(film)\">Crazy Rich Asians<\/a> here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously the panel demonstrates just how graphic this story is for the time (even now) and may be the first appearance of graphic blood in comic books.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detective Comics brought not only lengthier stories, but also stories of a more graphic nature.&nbsp; April 1937 featured the continuation of &#8220;The Claws of the Red Dragon&#8221; by Tom Hickey.&nbsp; This series followed Bruce Nelson through a &#8220;Yellow Peril&#8221; story.&nbsp; Like other forms of period racism, reading these stories can make one uncomfortable.&nbsp; We are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,53,39,32,512,309],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-44","tag-bruce-nelson","tag-detective-comics","tag-firsts","tag-gruesome","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}