{"id":4406,"date":"2022-08-25T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2022-07-19T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T04:56:54","slug":"799-shadow-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/799-shadow-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"799 &#8211; Shadow Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-hawks-shadow-thief.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-hawks-shadow-thief.png\" alt=\"A panel from The Brave and the Bold #36, April 1961\" class=\"wp-image-4407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-hawks-shadow-thief.png 860w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-hawks-shadow-thief-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/196104-hawks-shadow-thief-768x486.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A panel from The Brave and the Bold #36, April 1961<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Brave and the Bold #36 (April 1961), one of Hawkman&#8217;s repeating enemies is introduced: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_Thief#Carl_Sands\">the Shadow Thief<\/a>. Carl Sands learns how to separate himself from his shadow, then rescues a dying alien who gifts him with a &#8220;dimensiometer&#8221;, which can let him control his shadow and manipulate the world around him. The alien later recants and asks for the machine back, since overuse will trigger a new Earth ice age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Sands doesn&#8217;t buy any of that crap and embarks on a criminal career as The Shadow Thief. That is, until Hawkman and Hawkgirl defeat him, destroying the dimensiometer. This is the last issue of The Brave &amp; The Bold with Hawkman try-outs until the Hawks make their debut in their own magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Brave and the Bold #36 (April 1961), one of Hawkman&#8217;s repeating enemies is introduced: the Shadow Thief. Carl Sands learns how to separate himself from his shadow, then rescues a dying alien who gifts him with a &#8220;dimensiometer&#8221;, which can let him control his shadow and manipulate the world around him. The alien [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[710,14,199,112],"class_list":["post-4406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-710","tag-dc","tag-hawkgirl","tag-hawkman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406","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=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}