{"id":1331,"date":"2022-09-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:16:03","slug":"minor-super-villain-167-armo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 167: ARMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle v1 007, 1941)<\/p>\n

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What makes them a super-villain? <\/b>It’s the helmet! That kind of welder’s mask-looking helm is the key to my super-villain-appreciating heart. Otherwise, Armo is a gang boss who robs armoured cars and ends up launching himself into the sea while trying to run down the Blue Beetle.<\/p>\n

Honestly, Blue Beetle antagonists in this era are almost all guys in suits wearing masks but otherwise acting like standard gang bosses. If I didn’t include the filter of having to be just a leetle bit interesting this blog would be a parade of unnamed guys with brown\/ white\/ blue masks for weeks<\/i>. Just chumps for days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle v1 007, 1941) What makes them a super-villain? It’s the helmet! That kind of welder’s mask-looking helm is the key to my super-villain-appreciating heart. Otherwise, Armo is a gang boss who robs armoured cars and ends up launching himself into the sea while trying to run down the Blue Beetle. Honestly, Blue Beetle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1193,35,44,3,47,23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-armo","category-blue-beetle","category-dead","category-fox-features","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}