{"id":67,"date":"2018-12-01T08:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=67"},"modified":"2022-01-01T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T05:11:28","slug":"1-tailspin-tommy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/1-tailspin-tommy\/","title":{"rendered":"1 &#8211; Tailspin Tommy!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tailspin-tommy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tailspin-tommy.png\" alt=\"A couple panels of the Tailspin Tommy comic strip reprint from Famous Funnies #1, June 1934\" class=\"wp-image-68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tailspin-tommy.png 722w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tailspin-tommy-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Tailspin Tommy, June 1934<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Comic books were started by a company called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Color_Printing\">Eastern Color Printing Company<\/a> whose publisher, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Max_Gaines\">Max Gaines<\/a> (father of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_(magazine)\">Mad Magazine<\/a> founder <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Gaines\">William Gaines<\/a>!), decided to collect reprints of comic strips from the newspapers (often called &#8220;funnies&#8221;) and put them into book form.&nbsp; The first such comic book sold was called Famous Funnies #1, in June 1934.&nbsp; Each page featured one page from a newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tailspin_Tommy\">Tailspin Tommy<\/a> was a popular strip for its time, resulting in a 1934 Universal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tailspin_Tommy_(serial)\">film serial by the same name<\/a>.&nbsp; This makes Tailspin Tommy one of the earliest film adaptations of a comic book character!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">What is this blog<\/a>?&nbsp; I&#8217;m going to explore how comic books evolved as a medium since their early beginnings with a focus on superheroes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comic books were started by a company called Eastern Color Printing Company whose publisher, Max Gaines (father of Mad Magazine founder William Gaines!), decided to collect reprints of comic strips from the newspapers (often called &#8220;funnies&#8221;) and put them into book form.&nbsp; The first such comic book sold was called Famous Funnies #1, in June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,505,5,32,506,6],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7","tag-blog","tag-eastern-color","tag-firsts","tag-milestone","tag-tailspin-tommy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3848,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/3848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}