{"id":1355,"date":"2022-09-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:16:37","slug":"minor-super-villain-154-the-yellow-faced-terror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1355","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 154: THE YELLOW-FACED TERROR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">(All-Star Comics 002, 1940)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjJIDNmU2jxsm1U3KUpRma7-t4Yv9N7_T5_fBgSyLGZukmnNHxfphO6w4FiwfbwYcDrv_H5ZG3MUJDR4X_lmae39Zn6vlJCz2BRp7NMYZF0KqwBOLalwczeSrjAO7649b7CtsJ38bhmmpH7KR4_bRhLH5CtT7qh0cGjCd3T3OGyYtcawNYVsuzCkr7tuw\/s503\/136.%20yellow%20faced%20terror%20all%20star%20002%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"354\" data-original-width=\"503\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjJIDNmU2jxsm1U3KUpRma7-t4Yv9N7_T5_fBgSyLGZukmnNHxfphO6w4FiwfbwYcDrv_H5ZG3MUJDR4X_lmae39Zn6vlJCz2BRp7NMYZF0KqwBOLalwczeSrjAO7649b7CtsJ38bhmmpH7KR4_bRhLH5CtT7qh0cGjCd3T3OGyYtcawNYVsuzCkr7tuw\/s16000\/136.%20yellow%20faced%20terror%20all%20star%20002%201940.JPG\" title=\"the Yellow-Faced Terror\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><b>What makes them a super-villain?<\/b>&nbsp;He&#8217;s a money-mad maniac who murdered his own brother to steal a radiation-orb called the Life-Taker, which he uses to rob by the simple act of lobbing it into an area and waiting until it has killed any resistance. He also has a pretty great look, achieved via a crust of a sulphur\/lead compound which shields him from his own orb&#8217;s radiations. What he doesn&#8217;t really have is a <i>name<\/i>, so I snitched the one used in the above text box.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><b>What&#8217;s interesting about them?<\/b> Well, it&#8217;s a bit debatable but the Sandman might have murdered him. He discovers Wesley Dodds&#8217; secret in the course of the adventure and then in the final struggle&#8230; it kind of looks like the Sandman arranges for him to be shot through the head a bit more enthusiastically than needed. Maybe.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(All-Star Comics 002, 1940) What makes them a super-villain?&nbsp;He&#8217;s a money-mad maniac who murdered his own brother to steal a radiation-orb called the Life-Taker, which he uses to rob by the simple act of lobbing it into an area and waiting until it has killed any resistance. He also has a pretty great look, achieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,631,17,44,417,23,20,539,7,26,63,1207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-all-star-comics","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-fratricide","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-sandman","category-the","category-thief","category-unofficial-name","category-yellow-faced-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","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=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}