{"id":4193,"date":"2022-06-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2022-07-09T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T18:31:18","slug":"757-pieface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/757-pieface\/","title":{"rendered":"757 – Pieface"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from Green Lantern #2, July 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In Green Lantern #2 (July 1960), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) gets a confidante just like Roy Thomas suggested he should<\/a> in an Inuit mechanic friend, Thomas Kalmaku<\/a> aka “Pieface”. I’m pretty sure “Pieface” is referring to the round-ness of the face. Despite that racist nickname, the character is not depicted as a racist caricature, but he’s a more dependable version of Jimmy Olsen. I think this the first non-white character introduced into the supporting cast of a superhero?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that same issue, more world-building as the antimatter universe, the planet of Qward<\/a>, and its evil Weaponers are introduced. These would feature in Green Lantern adventures from time-to-time, but had a much more significant role in the Crisis on Infinite Earths event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GL faces off against a Qward Weaponer in Green Lantern #2, July 1960<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Green Lantern #2 (July 1960), Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) gets a confidante just like Roy Thomas suggested he should in an Inuit mechanic friend, Thomas Kalmaku aka “Pieface”. I’m pretty sure “Pieface” is referring to the round-ness of the face. Despite that racist nickname, the character is not depicted as a racist caricature, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[654,690,212,14,74,688,689,309,147,660],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-654","tag-antimatter-universe","tag-crisis-on-infinite-earths","tag-dc","tag-green-lantern","tag-pieface","tag-qward","tag-racism","tag-sidekick","tag-world-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","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=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}