{"id":503,"date":"2019-01-21T09:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=503"},"modified":"2020-01-19T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T16:57:33","slug":"50-the-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/50-the-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"50 – The Arrow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A panel from the Arrow story in Funny Pages #21, July 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Centaur Publications included a new strip in Funny Pages #21 (vol. 2 #10) July 1938 called The Arrow<\/a> (no, not the TV show<\/a> and nothing to do with DC’s Green Arrow<\/a>, still three years away). The Arrow was a superhero that relied on archery as a gimmick and had a costume and a secret identity. Being only a couple months after the creation of Superman, Centaur probably could not have predicted how exciting a colorful superhero could be, since The Arrow is mostly absent from the panels in the strip or hiding in shadows. His costume would later be made more colorful and skin-tight. Speaking of which, over in Action Comics #3, Jerry Siegel made the odd choice to only have Superman<\/a> in his costume for a single panel of the 13-page story. In it, Superman teaches an owner of an unsafe coal mine a lesson. The rest of the story he is either dressed as Clark Kent or disguised as a miner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, a celebration of sorts also this month… after about a year, Jerry Siegel<\/a> decided to advance the relationship of Bart and Sally in “Spy” in Detective Comics #18 (July 1938):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Spy in Detective Comics #18, July 1938<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Centaur Publications included a new strip in Funny Pages #21 (vol. 2 #10) July 1938 called The Arrow (no, not the TV show and nothing to do with DC’s Green Arrow, still three years away). The Arrow was a superhero that relied on archery as a gimmick and had a costume and a secret identity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[54,35,14,110,24,25,235,47,109],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-54","tag-centaur","tag-dc","tag-green-arrow","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-joe-shuster","tag-secret-identity","tag-spy","tag-the-arrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","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=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}