{"id":917,"date":"2019-04-18T07:35:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=917"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:50:56","slug":"113-s-is-for-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/113-s-is-for-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"113 &#8211; S is for Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"890\" height=\"962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/supermans-new-shield.png\" alt=\"A section of the cover of Action Comics #25, April 1940\" class=\"wp-image-918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/supermans-new-shield.png 890w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/supermans-new-shield-278x300.png 278w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/supermans-new-shield-768x830.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><figcaption>A section of the cover of Action Comics #25, April 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Up until now, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman\">Superman<\/a>&#8216;s insignia has usually drawn as an inverted yellow-bordered triangle surrounding an &#8216;S&#8217; of first yellow, then red. Action Comics #25 (April 1940) shows the final major iteration of this symbol to a red-bordered diamond shape that is now recognized the world over. Note that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman_logo\">Wikipedia article on this<\/a> states that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Superman_(1940s_cartoons)\">Fleischer cartoons<\/a> are when the the symbol first appears as a diamond, but the above cover disproves that, having hit the news stands about a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, Superman&#8216;s insignia has usually drawn as an inverted yellow-bordered triangle surrounding an &#8216;S&#8217; of first yellow, then red. Action Comics #25 (April 1940) shows the final major iteration of this symbol to a red-bordered diamond shape that is now recognized the world over. Note that the Wikipedia article on this states that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,14,32,43],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}