{"id":642,"date":"2019-02-20T08:20:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=642"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:15:56","slug":"72-the-first-iron-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/72-the-first-iron-man\/","title":{"rendered":"72 &#8211; The First Iron Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bozo-the-iron-man-1024x512.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Bozo the Iron Man story in Smash Comics #1, June 1939\" class=\"wp-image-645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bozo-the-iron-man-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bozo-the-iron-man-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bozo-the-iron-man-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bozo-the-iron-man.png 1772w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Bozo the Iron Man story in Smash Comics #1, June 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quality_Comics\">Quality<\/a> released <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smash_Comics\">Smash Comics<\/a> #1 in June 1939.  It featured a silly series called &#8220;Hugh Hazzard and his Iron Man&#8221;, who is turned from villain to crime-fighting slave and given the humiliating name of &#8220;Bozo&#8221; in this first story.  Of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bozo_the_Iron_Man\">Bozo the Iron Man<\/a> predates Marvel Comics own Iron Man by <em>decades<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality released Smash Comics #1 in June 1939. It featured a silly series called &#8220;Hugh Hazzard and his Iron Man&#8221;, who is turned from villain to crime-fighting slave and given the humiliating name of &#8220;Bozo&#8221; in this first story. Of course, Bozo the Iron Man predates Marvel Comics own Iron Man by decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,32,88,90,49],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-firsts","tag-iron-man","tag-marvel","tag-quality-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}