{"id":838,"date":"2019-04-01T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=838"},"modified":"2021-12-20T00:32:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T08:32:03","slug":"100-bit-of-a-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/100-bit-of-a-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"100 &#8211; Bit of a stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1004\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flexo-the-rubber-man.png\" alt=\"A panel from Flexo, the Rubber Man in Mystic Comics #1, January 1940\" class=\"wp-image-839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flexo-the-rubber-man.png 1004w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flexo-the-rubber-man-300x121.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/flexo-the-rubber-man-768x309.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1004px) 100vw, 1004px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Flexo, the Rubber Man in Mystic Comics #1, January 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Timely_Comics\">Timely Comics<\/a> (the company that became Marvel Comics) debuted a new comic book in January 1940, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mystic_Comics\">Mystic Comics<\/a>, with the improbably-named character of Flexo the Rubber Robot (or Flexo the Rubber Man). That&#8217;s right, this was a robot that could stretch, which makes Flexo the first superhero with that power!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe I&#8217;ve done 100 of these and we are into the 1940s already. I wasn&#8217;t sure I could even make it to the debut of Superman!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timely Comics (the company that became Marvel Comics) debuted a new comic book in January 1940, Mystic Comics, with the improbably-named character of Flexo the Rubber Robot (or Flexo the Rubber Man). That&#8217;s right, this was a robot that could stretch, which makes Flexo the first superhero with that power! It&#8217;s hard to believe I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,505,128,90,129,52],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-blog","tag-elongated-man","tag-marvel","tag-mister-fantastic","tag-plastic-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}