{"id":232,"date":"2023-03-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:31:16","slug":"super-hero-costume-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"SUPER-HERO COSTUME PARTY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This bit where Hawkman intends<\/i> to attend a costumed event as himself but doesn’t quite make it (Flash Comics v1 022, 1941) made me realize that I’ve missed a few examples of super-heroes attending costume parties as themselves, one of my most favourite tropes in comics! Time for some catchup rectification!<\/p>\n

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Here’s the Red Gaucho being mistaken for someone who was dressed as him, who is then impersonated by a third<\/i> person in a story that was not called “Too Many Gauchos” but could have been (Nickel Comics 006, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Similarly, Rex Tyler attends a costume party as Hourman and gets mistaken as part of a whole gang of Hourmen who are planning on sticking the place up (All-Star 003, 1940)<\/p>\n

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And finally we have USA, the Spirit of Old Glory attending a party in her own costume with no impostors to horn in on her idea. (Feature Comics 048, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This bit where Hawkman intends to attend a costumed event as himself but doesn’t quite make it (Flash Comics v1 022, 1941) made me realize that I’ve missed a few examples of super-heroes attending costume parties as themselves, one of my most favourite tropes in comics! Time for some catchup rectification! Here’s the Red Gaucho being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,353,17,175,309,352,56,237,7,354],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-14","category-costume-party-heroes","category-dc-comics","category-fawcett-comics","category-hawkman","category-hourman","category-quality-comics","category-red-gaucho","category-the","category-usa-the-spirit-of-old-glory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}