{"id":1328,"date":"2022-10-16T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:16:01","slug":"minor-super-villain-183-x-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1328","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 183: X-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 003, 1940)<\/p>\n

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What makes them a super-villain?<\/b> While X-1 is concerned with that most banal of crimes, insurance fraud, he does it at scale<\/i>, employing a fleet of pirates in souped-up submarines to steal his own goods and sink his own ships for the sweet cash payout.<\/p>\n

What is interesting about them?<\/b> Well first off, his real name is Wilhelm Wotan, <\/i>a true banger of a moniker the likes of which we have seldom seen so far. A real villain’s name that is frankly wasted on this capitalist pigdog.<\/p>\n

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The real draw, though, is those submarine pirates! Check out those dreamy mantled masks, that skull-and-crossboned conning tower! It’s hard to go wrong with submarine pirates but by Jove I’ve seldom seen any done more right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 003, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? While X-1 is concerned with that most banal of crimes, insurance fraud, he does it at scale, employing a fleet of pirates in souped-up submarines to steal his own goods and sink his own ships for the sweet cash payout. What is interesting about them? Well first off, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,61,935,36,1156,23,58,56,1191,481,7,1192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-capitalism","category-crack-comics","category-good-henchmen","category-insurance-fraud","category-minor-super-villain","category-names","category-quality-comics","category-red-torpedo","category-submarine-pirates","category-the","category-x-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","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=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}