{"id":1462,"date":"2022-06-09T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:24:28","slug":"minor-super-villain-034-the-ice-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 034: THE ICE MENACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Action v1 015, 1939)<\/p>\n

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Just a regular sort of science villain with a regular sort of plan: create a heat ray cannon and use it to ransom the world by melting the ice caps. Derailed and frozen solid by Zatara after a mere few flooded cities. Actually, that would be a neat way for him to come back: thawed out by glo<\/span>bal warming.<\/span><\/p>\n

Occasionally a clear super-villain is unnamed in the course of a story and I have to go by something they are referred to in captions. The Ice Menace always feels like one of those to me but I think they actually call him that during the story? Wild.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Action v1 015, 1939) Just a regular sort of science villain with a regular sort of plan: create a heat ray cannon and use it to ransom the world by melting the ice caps. Derailed and frozen solid by Zatara after a mere few flooded cities. Actually, that would be a neat way for him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,30,17,44,1266,506,23,101,7,1265,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-action-comics","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-ice-menace","category-mad-science","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-the","category-world-ransomer","category-zatara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","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=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}