{"id":1505,"date":"2022-07-23T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:28:36","slug":"minor-super-villain-088-the-black-robed-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1505","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 088: THE BLACK-ROBED MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">(Blue Beetle Comics 004, 1940)<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtYaakZ-Wpttvzpuav7eAGNUtv3QzJrynlGFcWQ3tzsBV_utjAO8S2Fugm6FLbEfAgkVp242vN7C4Uo3XYWDJEhzcu0MB7-yWT_f6ivdWTI5XZR2r9RnM2Pkr5VE6wyD2C-0KAH6xisBeMfTS650bJdJfv2ptK6dWq4MPY59q8J4_ze-D5aMBX1smGkA\/w640-h220\/c4.%20the%20Black-Robed%20Man%20-%20Blue%20Beetle%20004,%201940%20-%20old%20lady%20crime%20boss.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"272\" data-original-width=\"790\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhtYaakZ-Wpttvzpuav7eAGNUtv3QzJrynlGFcWQ3tzsBV_utjAO8S2Fugm6FLbEfAgkVp242vN7C4Uo3XYWDJEhzcu0MB7-yWT_f6ivdWTI5XZR2r9RnM2Pkr5VE6wyD2C-0KAH6xisBeMfTS650bJdJfv2ptK6dWq4MPY59q8J4_ze-D5aMBX1smGkA\/w640-h220\/c4.%20the%20Black-Robed%20Man%20-%20Blue%20Beetle%20004,%201940%20-%20old%20lady%20crime%20boss.JPG\" title=\"the Black-Robed Man\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0f1419\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap\">It&#8217;s fairly unsupported right now as the only other example of a crossdressing villain so far is the Coin, but trust me when I say that an older woman adopting a younger male identity for crime is a comparative rarity as compared to the opposite. I may find myself compelled to note all of the times that non-super gangster types do it, just to lend weight to my claims.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #0f1419\"><span style=\"white-space: pre-wrap\">Anyway, the Black-Robed Man. Runs a gang out of a house that is technically owned by her niece, which is how the Blue Beetle gets involved, helping the damsel who is being run out of her home by dastards.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Blue Beetle Comics 004, 1940) It&#8217;s fairly unsupported right now as the only other example of a crossdressing villain so far is the Coin, but trust me when I say that an older woman adopting a younger male identity for crime is a comparative rarity as compared to the opposite. I may find myself compelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1286,35,361,3,47,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-black-robed-man","category-blue-beetle","category-crossdress","category-fox-features","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","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=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}