{"id":696,"date":"2019-03-11T08:07:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T15:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=696"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T21:39:33","slug":"85-x-ray-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/85-x-ray-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"85 &#8211; X-Ray Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-xray-vision-1024x735.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Superman story in Action Comics #18, September 1939\" class=\"wp-image-697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-xray-vision-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-xray-vision-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-xray-vision-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/superman-xray-vision.png 1192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Superman story in Action Comics #18, September 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Action Comics #18 (September 1939), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a> used his <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/X-ray_vision\">x-ray vision<\/a> for the first time (his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=557\">super-hearing<\/a> had been hinted at in a previous story).  I picture what is happening with Superman&#8217;s powers here as a sort of &#8220;arms race&#8221;, since I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Siegel\">Jerry Siegel<\/a> had constant pressure to make Superman more exciting than other Superman clones out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Action Comics #18 (September 1939), Superman used his x-ray vision for the first time (his super-hearing had been hinted at in a previous story). I picture what is happening with Superman&#8217;s powers here as a sort of &#8220;arms race&#8221;, since I&#8217;m sure Jerry Siegel had constant pressure to make Superman more exciting than other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,57,14,32,24,329,43,97],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-action-comics","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-super-powers","tag-superman","tag-xray-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","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=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}