{"id":921,"date":"2019-04-19T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T14:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=921"},"modified":"2019-02-20T22:09:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T06:09:02","slug":"114-two-new-bat-rogues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/114-two-new-bat-rogues\/","title":{"rendered":"114 &#8211; Two New Bat-Rogues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"634\" height=\"992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-joker.png\" alt=\"A panel from the first appearance of the Joker in Batman #1, April 1940\" class=\"wp-image-922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-joker.png 634w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/the-joker-192x300.png 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from the first appearance of the Joker in Batman #1, April 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=888\">introduction of Robin<\/a> only one month earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Batman_Family_enemies\">Batman&#8217;s rogues gallery<\/a> consisted of only three villains:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doctor_Death_(comics)\">Doctor Death<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monk_(comics)\">Mad Monk<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugo_Strange\">Hugo Strange<\/a>.  In April 1940, DC released <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Batman_(comic_book)\">Batman #1<\/a>, its second comic book dedicated to just a single superhero.  In it, they recount the Batman&#8217;s origin and then feature not one, but two of Batman&#8217;s most-recognized villains:  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joker_(character)\">The Joker<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catwoman\">Catwoman<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Joker is recognizable from his first appearance and has changed relatively little in the course of 78 years:  a chilling, homicidal, insane criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Catwoman, on the other hand, starts as a beautiful, costume-less burglar named &#8220;The Cat&#8221; who Daddy Bats is attracted to, even threatening a spanking and then looking up her dress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"529\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/catwoman-529x1024.png\" alt=\"A panel introducing the character that would become Catwoman from Batman #1, April 1940\" class=\"wp-image-923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/catwoman-529x1024.png 529w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/catwoman-155x300.png 155w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/catwoman.png 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 529px) 100vw, 529px\" \/><figcaption>A panel introducing the character that would become Catwoman from Batman #1, April 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At this stage, I&#8217;m definitely noticing a lot more bondage imagery in comic books, especially on comic books covers from Timely (Marvel) of this era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the introduction of Robin only one month earlier, Batman&#8217;s rogues gallery consisted of only three villains: Doctor Death, the Mad Monk, and Hugo Strange. 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In it, they recount the Batman&#8217;s origin and then feature not one, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,40,155,154,14,153,179,81],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-batman","tag-bondage","tag-catwoman","tag-dc","tag-joker","tag-sexuality","tag-supervillain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}