{"id":1213,"date":"2022-07-13T11:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:12:37","slug":"minor-super-villain-069-the-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 069: THE COIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

 (Adventure Comics 046, 1940)<\/p>\n

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The Coin is a few different super-villain clich\u00e9s rolled into one. Firstly he’s an old college chum of Wesley “Sandman” Dodds, and “old schoolmate of hero turns out to be villain” is as much a recurring thing in comics as an old friend showing up and immediately dying. Which the Coin also does.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, the Coin is a man who dresses up as an old lady to do crime, which is a super-villain bit and also something that regular-style crooks are apt to do in the Golden and Silver Ages. Old women are such unlikely villains that everyone else poses as them – even Catwoman, in her first appearance.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, he’s a counterfeiter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 (Adventure Comics 046, 1940) The Coin is a few different super-villain clich\u00e9s rolled into one. Firstly he’s an old college chum of Wesley “Sandman” Dodds, and “old schoolmate of hero turns out to be villain” is as much a recurring thing in comics as an old friend showing up and immediately dying. Which the Coin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,284,1151,996,361,17,1034,23,439,539,1152,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-adventure-comics","category-coin","category-counterfeiter","category-crossdress","category-dc-comics","category-fake-old-lady","category-minor-super-villain","category-rubberoid-mask","category-sandman","category-sororicide","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","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=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}