{"id":770,"date":"2019-03-15T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=770"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T05:43:47","slug":"89-can-you-smell-the-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/89-can-you-smell-the-science\/","title":{"rendered":"89 &#8211; Can You Smell The Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flash-catches-a-bullet-1024x703.png\" alt=\"A panel from The Flash #1, November 1939.\" class=\"wp-image-771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flash-catches-a-bullet-1024x703.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flash-catches-a-bullet-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flash-catches-a-bullet-768x527.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flash-catches-a-bullet.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from The Flash #1, November 1939.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>November 1939 was a big month for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-American_Publications\">All-American Publications<\/a>, as it debuted its second title, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Comics\">Flash Comics<\/a>. In issue #1, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardner_Fox\">Gardner Fox<\/a> introduced a couple very important  superheroes that would later become part of the DC Universe almost right away (even though All-American would not officially merge with DC for a half a decade).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_(Jay_Garrick)\">The Flash (Jay Garrick)<\/a> was the first speedster superhero, who got his powers by &#8230; inhaling hard-water gases&#8230; \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af.  Of course the thing to do at this point in history when you discover you have super-speed is to get a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winged_helmet\">winged helmet<\/a> so you can dress like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_(mythology)\">Mercury<\/a>!  I was born in the wrong decade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 1939 was a big month for All-American Publications, as it debuted its second title, Flash Comics. In issue #1, Gardner Fox introduced a couple very important superheroes that would later become part of the DC Universe almost right away (even though All-American would not officially merge with DC for a half a decade). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,14,32,73,80,114],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-flash","tag-gardner-fox","tag-speedster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","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=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}