{"id":785,"date":"2019-03-19T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=785"},"modified":"2019-01-14T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T06:06:52","slug":"91-so-you-cei-u-want-wish-fulfillment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/91-so-you-cei-u-want-wish-fulfillment\/","title":{"rendered":"91 &#8211; So You Cei-U Want Wish Fulfillment?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"796\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Johnny Thunder story in Flash Comics #1, November 1939\" class=\"wp-image-786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt.png 796w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Johnny Thunder story in Flash Comics #1, November 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Thunder\">Johnny Thunder(bolt)<\/a> also debuted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flash_Comics\">Flash Comics<\/a> #1 (November 1939).  Like the other two heroes he shared the book with (Flash and Hawkman), Johnny Thunder was a one-gimmick wonder.  This time, the gimmick was that he didn&#8217;t know he was a hero.  Most of this time, this played like somewhat unfunny comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this first story, it is related that Johnny is the seventh son of a seventh son, born on the seventh hour of the seventh month of 1917. He also had an IQ of 77. As a baby, he is kidnapped by the Badhnesians since all those sevens means he can control the powerful thunderbolt when he reaches the age of seven by uttering the secret phrase &#8220;Cei-U&#8221;, at which point reality warps to obey Johnny&#8217;s every command. The comedy tries to write itself at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This first story does not introduce the sentient <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thunderbolt_(DC_Comics)\">Thunderbolt<\/a> as a character quite yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Thunder(bolt) also debuted in Flash Comics #1 (November 1939). Like the other two heroes he shared the book with (Flash and Hawkman), Johnny Thunder was a one-gimmick wonder. This time, the gimmick was that he didn&#8217;t know he was a hero. Most of this time, this played like somewhat unfunny comedy. In this first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,14,104,115,38],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-dc","tag-first","tag-johnny-thunder","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}