{"id":4103,"date":"2022-06-07T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2022-07-23T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T01:01:41","slug":"742-referencing-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/742-referencing-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"742 &#8211; Referencing Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/196004-superman-deep-cut.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/196004-superman-deep-cut.png\" alt=\"A panel from Action Comics #265, April 1960\" class=\"wp-image-4104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/196004-superman-deep-cut.png 538w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/196004-superman-deep-cut-300x257.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from Action Comics #265, April 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Action Comics #265 (April 1960), Supergirl exposes her existence to Smallville and Superman doesn&#8217;t want that to happen yet. So he digs up some old Gas Z &#8220;Amnesia Gas&#8221;, which he had once buried outside of Smallville as Superboy. What&#8217;s interesting here is not the over-use of amnesia-as-a-convenient-means-to-revert-to-the-status-quo, but the back-reference to earlier Superboy continuity, throwing back all the way to Adventure Comics #235 (Feb 1957), a full three years. The editors over at DC seem to be intensifying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=3913\">solid continuity that readers are asking for<\/a>. This is the first time I&#8217;ve seen them reference a specific issue from years in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Action Comics #265 (April 1960), Supergirl exposes her existence to Smallville and Superman doesn&#8217;t want that to happen yet. So he digs up some old Gas Z &#8220;Amnesia Gas&#8221;, which he had once buried outside of Smallville as Superboy. What&#8217;s interesting here is not the over-use of amnesia-as-a-convenient-means-to-revert-to-the-status-quo, but the back-reference to earlier Superboy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,303,271,14,304,43],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-amnesia","tag-continuity","tag-dc","tag-superboy","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}