{"id":605,"date":"2019-02-12T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=605"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:13:48","slug":"66-the-ultra-humanite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/66-the-ultra-humanite\/","title":{"rendered":"66 &#8211; The Ultra-Humanite!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-ultra-humanite-1024x716.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Superman story in Action Comics #13, May 1939\" class=\"wp-image-606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-ultra-humanite-1024x716.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-ultra-humanite-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-ultra-humanite-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-ultra-humanite.png 1178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Superman story in Action Comics #13, May 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Action Comics #13 (May 1939), Jerry Siegel introduced the first super-villain to the Superman mythos with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultra-Humanite\">Ultra-Humanite<\/a>.  A &#8220;paralysed cripple&#8221; who was also a genius bent on world domination.  He is revealed to be the mastermind behind the &#8220;cab protective league&#8221;, a corrupt cab company that shakes down smaller cab companies for protection money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Action Comics #13 (May 1939), Jerry Siegel introduced the first super-villain to the Superman mythos with the Ultra-Humanite. A &#8220;paralysed cripple&#8221; who was also a genius bent on world domination. He is revealed to be the mastermind behind the &#8220;cab protective league&#8221;, a corrupt cab company that shakes down smaller cab companies for protection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,57,14,24,43,81,82],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-action-comics","tag-dc","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-superman","tag-supervillain","tag-ultra-humanite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}