{"id":688,"date":"2019-03-08T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T16:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=688"},"modified":"2024-11-23T09:41:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T17:41:28","slug":"84-gary-concord-the-ultra-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/84-gary-concord-the-ultra-man\/","title":{"rendered":"84 &#8211; Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gary-concord-ultra-man-1024x958.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Ultra-Man story in All-American Comics #8, September 1939\" class=\"wp-image-689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gary-concord-ultra-man-1024x958.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gary-concord-ultra-man-300x281.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gary-concord-ultra-man-768x719.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gary-concord-ultra-man.png 1118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Ultra-Man story in All-American Comics #8, September 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow &#8211; we finally get to move on from August 1939 to September 1939!  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultra-Man\">Gary Concord, the Ultra-man<\/a> debuted in All-American Comics #8 and was created by &#8220;Don Shelby&#8221;, a pseudonym of Jon L. Blummer.  He took some interesting elements of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buck_rogers\">Buck Rogers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doc_savage\">Doc Savage<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a> and rolled a new character set in the 22nd century.  This first story tells the tale of Gary Concord Sr, a 20th century man dedicating his life to ending all war, as he relates his life story to his son, Gary Concord Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; we finally get to move on from August 1939 to September 1939! Gary Concord, the Ultra-man debuted in All-American Comics #8 and was created by &#8220;Don Shelby&#8221;, a pseudonym of Jon L. Blummer. He took some interesting elements of Buck Rogers, Doc Savage and Superman and rolled a new character set in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,14,96],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-dc","tag-the-ultra-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}