The Curse of Skeleton Munroe

Category: Quality Comics

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 096: PYTHON

    (Feature Comics 036, 1940)

    What makes them a super-villain? Simply put, Python lives in a creepy castle somewhere in New York State and spends his time stealing the brains of great thinkers to wire up to his machine so that he can plunder their knowledge. And he decorates with the shrunken heads of his victims, and he has a surgically mind-controlled goon named Kreeper.

    What is interesting about them? Aside form the above which is pretty solid villain stuff, the most interesting thing about Python is that he has absolutely no connection to snakes in any way. It just seems to be, like, his name? Wild stuff.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 096: PYTHON

    (Feature Comics 036, 1940)

    What makes them a super-villain? Simply put, Python lives in a creepy castle somewhere in New York State and spends his time stealing the brains of great thinkers to wire up to his machine so that he can plunder their knowledge. And he decorates with the shrunken heads of his victims, and he has a surgically mind-controlled goon named Kreeper.

    What is interesting about them? Aside form the above which is pretty solid villain stuff, the most interesting thing about Python is that he has absolutely no connection to snakes in any way. It just seems to be, like, his name? Wild stuff.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 096: PYTHON

    (Feature Comics 036, 1940)

    What makes them a super-villain? Simply put, Python lives in a creepy castle somewhere in New York State and spends his time stealing the brains of great thinkers to wire up to his machine so that he can plunder their knowledge. And he decorates with the shrunken heads of his victims, and he has a surgically mind-controlled goon named Kreeper.

    What is interesting about them? Aside form the above which is pretty solid villain stuff, the most interesting thing about Python is that he has absolutely no connection to snakes in any way. It just seems to be, like, his name? Wild stuff.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 095: DR RODENT

    (Feature Comics 028, 1940)

    As far as a guy who attaches bombs to rats in order to sink and subsequently loot ships goes, Dr Rodent has it all: a great name, a rodentlike cast to his features, and, best of all, his heroic foil is Doll Man so we get to see a little guy ride around on a rat:

    This is the kind of thing that comics are for!

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 095: DR RODENT

    (Feature Comics 028, 1940)

    As far as a guy who attaches bombs to rats in order to sink and subsequently loot ships goes, Dr Rodent has it all: a great name, a rodentlike cast to his features, and, best of all, his heroic foil is Doll Man so we get to see a little guy ride around on a rat:

    This is the kind of thing that comics are for!

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 055: MR BIG

    (Feature Comics 022, 1939)

    Just a regular counterfeiter, but he’s our first Canadian crook who squeaks over the line into the realm of the super-villain, so here you go.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 055: MR BIG

    (Feature Comics 022, 1939)

    Just a regular counterfeiter, but he’s our first Canadian crook who squeaks over the line into the realm of the super-villain, so here you go.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 029: THE PURPLE HOODS

     (Feature Funnies 016, 1939)

    Not much to distinguish this spy organization foiled by Quality character Black X, other than the fact that their leader spends the entire adventure dressed for bed, complete with a little tasseled nightcap. I choose to ignore the in-text indications that he was in fact just about to go to sleep and instead believe that he dressed like that all the time. BRING BACK tasseled nightcaps! 

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 018: THE OWL

    (Feature Funnies 007, 1938)

    Our first Quality Comics super-villain!

    Otherwise, not very interesting – he doesn’t even wear the mask in the story, just tries to frame the Clock and finds out how far that kind of thing gets you in the comic book game.

  • MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 018: THE OWL

    (Feature Funnies 007, 1938)

    Our first Quality Comics super-villain!

    Otherwise, not very interesting – he doesn’t even wear the mask in the story, just tries to frame the Clock and finds out how far that kind of thing gets you in the comic book game.