{"id":474,"date":"2019-01-15T08:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T16:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:39:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T23:39:24","slug":"46-ginger-snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/46-ginger-snap\/","title":{"rendered":"46 &#8211; Ginger Snap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ginger-snap-1024x369.png\" alt=\"Ginger Snap from More Fun Comics #31, April 1938\" class=\"wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ginger-snap-1024x369.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ginger-snap-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ginger-snap-768x277.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Ginger Snap, April 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I usually avoid humorous comic strips, because this blog is mostly supposed to be documenting interesting superhero moments, but I couldn&#8217;t resist this panel of &#8220;Ginger Snap&#8221; from More Fun Comics #31, April 1938 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Kane\">Robert Kane<\/a> (future creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman\">Batman<\/a>).&nbsp; This looks like the first thing that Bob Kane created for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DC_Comics\">DC Comics<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of superheroes, there is a pretty important ad that begins to run in New Adventure and Detective Comics this month: the first advertisement for a new magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Action_Comics_1\">Action Comics #1<\/a> from Detective Comics, Inc&nbsp; This ad is the first time an image of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a> has been published.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1013\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/action-ad-1013x1024.png\" alt=\"Advertisement for Action Comics from Detective Comics #15, April 1938.\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/action-ad-1013x1024.png 1013w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/action-ad-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/action-ad-768x776.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/action-ad.png 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><figcaption>Advertisement for Action Comics, April 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also the first month in which <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_Wheeler-Nicholson#Later_career\">Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson<\/a> is no longer mentioned in the indicia and New Adventure Comics #26 is published by &#8220;Detective Comics, Inc&#8221;.&nbsp; By this time, Wheeler-Nicholson had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malcolm_Wheeler-Nicholson#Later_career\">lost<\/a> National Allied Publications to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Donenfeld\">Harry Donenfeld<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Liebowitz\">Jack Liebowitz<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually avoid humorous comic strips, because this blog is mostly supposed to be documenting interesting superhero moments, but I couldn&#8217;t resist this panel of &#8220;Ginger Snap&#8221; from More Fun Comics #31, April 1938 by Robert Kane (future creator of Batman).&nbsp; This looks like the first thing that Bob Kane created for DC Comics. 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