{"id":808,"date":"2019-03-26T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T15:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=808"},"modified":"2019-01-20T02:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:10:06","slug":"96-bat-with-a-gat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/96-bat-with-a-gat\/","title":{"rendered":"96 &#8211; Bat with a Gat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"959\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-gun-959x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Batman story in Detective Comics #35, December 1939\" class=\"wp-image-809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-gun-959x1024.png 959w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-gun-281x300.png 281w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-gun-768x820.png 768w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/batman-gun.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Batman story in Detective Comics #35, December 1939<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Detective Comics #35 (December 1939), <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Kane\">Bob Kane<\/a> decided to show the provocative image of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman\">Batman<\/a> holding a smoking gun in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glossary_of_comics_terminology#Splash\">splash page<\/a> of the story, even though Batman never uses a gun in the story itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But more importantly&#8230; wtf is going on with Batman&#8217;s body below the belt?!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, the cover of Detective Comics #35 had the longest bat-ears I&#8217;ve ever seen in the Golden Age:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/detective-35.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Detective Comics #35\" class=\"wp-image-810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/detective-35.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/detective-35-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>The cover of Detective Comics #35<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d say those ears are a solid 8.5 on the <a href=\"http:\/\/comicsalliance.com\/batman-ears-investigation\/\">sprang-jones scale<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Detective Comics #35 (December 1939), Bob Kane decided to show the provocative image of Batman holding a smoking gun in the splash page of the story, even though Batman never uses a gun in the story itself! But more importantly&#8230; wtf is going on with Batman&#8217;s body below the belt?!? Also, the cover of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,40,14,39,120,119],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-66","tag-batman","tag-dc","tag-detective-comics","tag-ears","tag-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808","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=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}