{"id":2029,"date":"2009-08-22T06:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2010-07-16T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T02:08:51","slug":"a-superstitious-cowardly-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"A Superstitious, Cowardly Lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dollman_0.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"370\" alt=\"[logo: The Doll Man by Wm. Erwin Maxwell]\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dollman_1.png\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" alt=\"[image of the tiny Doll Man punching a regular-sized villain]\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dollman_2.png\" width=\"319\" height=\"462\" alt=\"['So! You're the Doll Man! Now I know why criminals quake at the mention of your name!']\" style=\"display: block ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> <p>I first encountered Darrel Dane, the Doll Man, in a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/details.lasso?id=6149\"><cite>Feature Comics<\/cite> #114 (September 1947)<\/a> given to me by a friend.<span style=\"font-size: smaller ; vertical-align: top ;\">&#91;1&#93;<\/span><\/p> <p>You can encounter Doll Man &mdash; <em>if<\/em> you are ready for the thrills &mdash; at <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomics.co.uk\/index.php?ACT=search\">Golden Age Comics<\/a> (search both for <q>doll man<\/q> and for <q>Feature Comics<\/q>), <a href=\"http:\/\/pappysgoldenage.blogspot.com\/search?q=doll+man\">at Pappy's Golden Age Comics Blogzine<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/doll-man-artwork-by-lou-fine-reed.html\">at Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a>.<\/p> <hr width=\"50%\" align=\"left\" \/> <p><span style=\"font-size: smaller ; vertical-align: top ;\">&#91;1&#93;<\/span> <abbr title=\"What the devil\">WTF<\/abbr>?  In middle school, friends just <em>gave<\/em> golden-age comic books to me!  Another friend gave a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comics.org\/details.lasso?id=7019\"><cite>Action Comics<\/cite> #125 (October 1948)<\/a> to me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I first encountered Darrel Dane, the Doll Man, in a copy of Feature Comics #114 (September 1947) given to me by a friend.&#91;1&#93; You can encounter Doll Man &mdash; if you are ready for the thrills &mdash; at Golden Age Comics (search both for doll man and for Feature Comics), at Pappy's Golden Age Comics [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,5,4],"tags":[328,690,334,291],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-personal","category-public","tag-comic-books","tag-doll-man","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}