{"id":134,"date":"2022-06-15T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:28:00","slug":"minor-super-villain-048-the-emperor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 048: THE EMPEROR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Whiz Comics 006, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjxxH3Ey36dvrEfOkUU6cPWWTNnH1MQY9k_6I0gTaqE4FvnhIsCytd4IKqqMptAJSbgivCCwtfWIGa0Y9dUlKhinmkPebCnzbRV8LIzMu_cQKDxfgH4iz1l0SLp2a-GGjAACQyRfCiDXJJvOo6lUszInAqxT_t5fe3xPc-Ajn858ItRZAhhCaeGwUOlOQ\/s16000\/49.%20The%20Emperor.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"463\" data-original-width=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjxxH3Ey36dvrEfOkUU6cPWWTNnH1MQY9k_6I0gTaqE4FvnhIsCytd4IKqqMptAJSbgivCCwtfWIGa0Y9dUlKhinmkPebCnzbRV8LIzMu_cQKDxfgH4iz1l0SLp2a-GGjAACQyRfCiDXJJvOo6lUszInAqxT_t5fe3xPc-Ajn858ItRZAhhCaeGwUOlOQ\/s16000\/49.%20The%20Emperor.JPG\" title=\"the Emperor\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-size: small;white-space: pre-wrap\">A smuggler who founds an island haven for fugitive criminals, the Emperor makes a key mistake: he forgets that the citizens of his island empire are all murderers and acts like a tyrant. Predictably, he gets murdered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419\">2025 UPDATE: I just reread this story and I think that it&#8217;s imperative that I note that the Emperor, aka Scarface Otto Krug, was specifically an&nbsp;<i>ambergris<\/i>&nbsp;smuggler.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Whiz Comics 006, 1940) A smuggler who founds an island haven for fugitive criminals, the Emperor makes a key mistake: he forgets that the citizens of his island empire are all murderers and acts like a tyrant. Predictably, he gets murdered. 2025 UPDATE: I just reread this story and I think that it&#8217;s imperative that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,180,44,178,175,23,179,7,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-crime-community","category-dead","category-emperor","category-fawcett-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-scoop-smith","category-the","category-tyrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","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=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}