{"id":601,"date":"2019-02-11T08:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=601"},"modified":"2019-01-07T21:59:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T05:59:06","slug":"65-enter-the-sandman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/65-enter-the-sandman\/","title":{"rendered":"65 &#8211; Enter The Sandman!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-sandman-1024x704.png\" alt=\"A panel from the first Sandman story in New York World's Fair Comics, April 1939.\" class=\"wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-sandman-1024x704.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-sandman-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-sandman-768x528.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-sandman.png 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the first Sandman story in New York World&#8217;s Fair Comics, April 1939.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the stories included with New York World&#8217;s Fair Comics (April 1939) was the first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandman_(Wesley_Dodds)\">Sandman<\/a> story. The Sandman was Wesley Dodds, an inventor and millionaire playboy (beating Tony Stark to the superhero game by at least twenty years).  He ran around in a gas mask and used a gas gun to put criminals to sleep. The Sandman was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardner_Fox\">Gardner Fox<\/a> and artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allen_Bert_Christman\">Bert Christman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the stories included with New York World&#8217;s Fair Comics (April 1939) was the first Sandman story. The Sandman was Wesley Dodds, an inventor and millionaire playboy (beating Tony Stark to the superhero game by at least twenty years). He ran around in a gas mask and used a gas gun to put criminals to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,86,14,80,79],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-bert-christman","tag-dc","tag-gardner-fox","tag-the-sandman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}