{"id":453,"date":"2019-01-10T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-11-24T13:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T21:36:44","slug":"41-the-blood-of-the-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/41-the-blood-of-the-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"41 &#8211; The Blood of the Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"949\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bruce-nelson-blood-of-lotus-1024x949.png\" alt=\"The Blood of the Lotus, Detective Comics #10, November 1937\" class=\"wp-image-454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bruce-nelson-blood-of-lotus-1024x949.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bruce-nelson-blood-of-lotus-300x278.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bruce-nelson-blood-of-lotus-768x712.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bruce-nelson-blood-of-lotus.png 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Blood of the Lotus,, November 1937<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=399\">The Claws of the Red Dragon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dc.wikia.com\/wiki\/Bruce_Nelson_(Earth-Two)\">Bruce Nelson<\/a> continued his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_Peril\">yellow peril<\/a>&#8221; adventures in Detective Comics.&nbsp; Above shows a panel from the second chapter of &#8220;The Blood of the Lotus&#8221; in Detective Comics #10 (November 1937).&nbsp; In it, they depict the heroin being drugged (with opium presumably), perhaps the second time drug use was depicted in comic books.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After The Claws of the Red Dragon, Bruce Nelson continued his &#8220;yellow peril&#8221; adventures in Detective Comics.&nbsp; Above shows a panel from the second chapter of &#8220;The Blood of the Lotus&#8221; in Detective Comics #10 (November 1937).&nbsp; In it, they depict the heroin being drugged (with opium presumably), perhaps the second time drug use was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,53,14,39,532],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-44","tag-bruce-nelson","tag-dc","tag-detective-comics","tag-drug-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","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=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}