{"id":1027,"date":"2022-11-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:03:46","slug":"minor-super-villain-198-the-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 198: THE CRICKET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 001, 011 &amp; 012, 1940-1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikH9MmvuwZ0xUnHbL8gyUSIcPM9fJV3g7WD_v3NivqSRVwfOauZH-Skji5sscSrIBnlgJZB7t5Kn9PMX14VvvGpKFFCaPaIasFEoFNRvqHMqw0CoPvA_XbFMHebvP6U0vc67xRAz-BMtxE9UhUwmdft80uy_BNfLVCaXJLJKM8j-IOBCVP9QFxFInjqA\/w640-h348\/1xx3.%20the%20Cricket%20crack%20001%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"372\" data-original-width=\"683\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEikH9MmvuwZ0xUnHbL8gyUSIcPM9fJV3g7WD_v3NivqSRVwfOauZH-Skji5sscSrIBnlgJZB7t5Kn9PMX14VvvGpKFFCaPaIasFEoFNRvqHMqw0CoPvA_XbFMHebvP6U0vc67xRAz-BMtxE9UhUwmdft80uy_BNfLVCaXJLJKM8j-IOBCVP9QFxFInjqA\/w640-h348\/1xx3.%20the%20Cricket%20crack%20001%201940.JPG\" title=\"the Cricket\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Cricket, leader of <i>the <\/i>Crickets, is a fairly undistinguished gang boss notable only for his brutality, the fact that he was the first foe of hard done-by hero the Spider and that he made two subsequent appearances!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiW24bTs7mXKXMOmj3FkDTm3gvsbqJPQle1H8PFTW3rZsVnoyPEoLXEgFZo4IVXTkBum8LO1nabKJyUfkjvqo-T08AJ8HjTySA4znTZr3aUxnShWWvCy43Qry6RveGR7h0efeZE9ajUpRoDj01pO_u8m48Q83gtD63u4-TFg1rVe99SNnAaPCJjhnxU4w\/w640-h440\/1xx3a.%20the%20Cricket%20crack%20011%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"684\" data-original-width=\"993\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiW24bTs7mXKXMOmj3FkDTm3gvsbqJPQle1H8PFTW3rZsVnoyPEoLXEgFZo4IVXTkBum8LO1nabKJyUfkjvqo-T08AJ8HjTySA4znTZr3aUxnShWWvCy43Qry6RveGR7h0efeZE9ajUpRoDj01pO_u8m48Q83gtD63u4-TFg1rVe99SNnAaPCJjhnxU4w\/w640-h440\/1xx3a.%20the%20Cricket%20crack%20011%201941.JPG\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>His first two appearances are nothing to write home about, though I do note a repeated armchair theme. The man loves to be comfortable. Sadly for him, he was shot down by the Spider before he could enjoy another good sit. RIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 001, 011 &amp; 012, 1940-1941) The Cricket, leader of the Crickets, is a fairly undistinguished gang boss notable only for his brutality, the fact that he was the first foe of hard done-by hero the Spider and that he made two subsequent appearances! His first two appearances are nothing to write home about, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,935,1062,44,47,23,28,56,1063,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-crack-comics","category-cricket","category-dead","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-quality-comics","category-spider","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","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=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}