{"id":136,"date":"2024-06-02T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:28:02","slug":"minor-super-villain-533-thorga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 533: THORGA"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Fantastic Comics 001, 1939) <\/p>\n

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Thorga! Exiled from Western society because of his “mad plans”, he emerges from the mountains of Tibet with a high-tech army, intent on conquering Europe!<\/p>\n

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Thorga! He fields a mighty airforce of advanced planes, a mechanized infantry of advanced tanks!<\/p>\n

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Thorga! He is the first foe faced by Fox Features’ Samson and so his main role is as a demonstration of Samson’s power as he destroys not only the planes and tanks but the regular infantry to boot (who, might I note, are not only dressed in excellent henchman costumes but apparently referred to as “Thorganians”, a top-notch henchman name).<\/p>\n

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Thorga, not only defeated by Samson, not only killed by Samson but buried under the wreckage of his lab in a callback to Original Samson’s final hurrah.<\/p>\n

Thorga. He served his purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Fantastic Comics 001, 1939)  Thorga! Exiled from Western society because of his “mad plans”, he emerges from the mountains of Tibet with a high-tech army, intent on conquering Europe! Thorga! He fields a mighty airforce of advanced planes, a mechanized infantry of advanced tanks! Thorga! He is the first foe faced by Fox Features’ Samson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,46,44,3,36,23,183,106,101,181,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-conquest","category-dead","category-fox-features","category-good-henchmen","category-minor-super-villain","category-rejected-by-society","category-samson","category-scientist","category-thorga","category-victim-of-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}