{"id":842,"date":"2019-04-02T08:14:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=842"},"modified":"2019-01-20T02:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T10:17:57","slug":"101-spectracular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/101-spectracular\/","title":{"rendered":"101 &#8211; Spectracular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spectre-flies.png\" alt=\"A panel from the Spectre story in More Fun Comics #52, January 1940\" class=\"wp-image-843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spectre-flies.png 980w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spectre-flies-300x286.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/spectre-flies-768x732.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the Spectre story in More Fun Comics #52, January 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>January 1940 also saw the debut of DC&#8217;s latest superhero, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spectre_(DC_Comics_character)\">The Spectre<\/a> in More Fun Comics #52.  The Spectre was created by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Siegel\">Jerry Siegel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Baily\">Bernard Baily<\/a>.  Although the Spectre appears in full &#8220;costume&#8221; on the cover and on the splash panel, in this first story we don&#8217;t get to see him in his green cloak and pale skin in this first issue.  We only get to see hard-nosed Detective <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Corrigan\">Jim Corrigan<\/a> solve a crime, make way with his fiance, get killed by criminals and stuffed into a barrel full of concrete, then dumped into the ocean, then having an out-of-body experience, then get denied entrance to Heaven, and then come back as a vengeful ghost with powers to float and to walk through walls.  That&#8217;s it.  \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this month, DC now has every one of its magazines (and the All-American Comics magazines) with at least one superhero in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 1940 also saw the debut of DC&#8217;s latest superhero, The Spectre in More Fun Comics #52. The Spectre was created by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily. Although the Spectre appears in full &#8220;costume&#8221; on the cover and on the splash panel, in this first story we don&#8217;t get to see him in his green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,134,14,24,130],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-bernard-baily","tag-dc","tag-jerry-siegel","tag-the-spectre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","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=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}