{"id":966,"date":"2019-05-01T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=966"},"modified":"2019-02-18T09:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T17:51:58","slug":"122-johnny-thunder-more-clueless-than-a-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/122-johnny-thunder-more-clueless-than-a-locomotive\/","title":{"rendered":"122 &#8211; Johnny Thunder, More Clueless than a Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt-superman.png\" alt=\"A panel from Johnny Thunderbolt, Flash #8, June 1940\" class=\"wp-image-967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt-superman.png 592w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/johnny-thunderbolt-superman-227x300.png 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Johnny Thunderbolt, Flash #8, June 1940<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Still called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Thunder\">Johnny Thunderbolt<\/a> as of June 1940, it is revealed in Flash Comics #8 that Johnny Thunder probably lives in the same universe as Superman (or at least in a universe that knows of Superman&#8217;s exploits).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s somewhat interesting though that Johnny Thunder, Flash, Hawkman and Green Lantern are all published by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/All-American_Publications\">All-American Publications<\/a>, not <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Comics_Publications\">Detective Comics Inc<\/a>.  Advertisements in books from both &#8220;sister&#8221; companies (or &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imprint_(trade_name)\">imprints<\/a>&#8220;) have been referencing each other&#8217;s characters for months, calling their books &#8220;the Big Six&#8221;, but technically this panel from Johnny Thunder is the first in-story example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intercompany_crossover#Golden_and_Silver_Ages\">cross-company comic book crossover<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still called Johnny Thunderbolt as of June 1940, it is revealed in Flash Comics #8 that Johnny Thunder probably lives in the same universe as Superman (or at least in a universe that knows of Superman&#8217;s exploits). It&#8217;s somewhat interesting though that Johnny Thunder, Flash, Hawkman and Green Lantern are all published by All-American Publications, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126,150,14,32,115,43],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-126","tag-crossover","tag-dc","tag-firsts","tag-johnny-thunder","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}