{"id":1543,"date":"2022-07-06T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:29:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:29:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-066-mr-leopard-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 066: MR LEOPARD SKIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Action Comics 028, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhLCTWrOcamE3L15QgWNfnoAgXS00aiO5AxqPsJdoulgfb8cplQY4bwbvf8fDaFsoW4-9BmdJnNrGdZwcAHmubvO5P4pkf93t7oAixWf0drGKjapcS4n5XWAv89FqHU-aBBn2DOJIz3M5bEB7NTudZ9SPfq4kKa_-QuD3wXpjQox_mFf8LRZlt9X8Dd1Q\/s16000\/62.%20Mr%20Leopard%20Skin.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"365\" data-original-width=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhLCTWrOcamE3L15QgWNfnoAgXS00aiO5AxqPsJdoulgfb8cplQY4bwbvf8fDaFsoW4-9BmdJnNrGdZwcAHmubvO5P4pkf93t7oAixWf0drGKjapcS4n5XWAv89FqHU-aBBn2DOJIz3M5bEB7NTudZ9SPfq4kKa_-QuD3wXpjQox_mFf8LRZlt9X8Dd1Q\/s16000\/62.%20Mr%20Leopard%20Skin.JPG\" title=\"Mr Leopard Skin\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>AKA the Leopard Skin Thief AKA the Strongarm Bandit &#8211; this is our first example of a clear super-villainous character who has not bothered to give themself a name and so we must take one from the text boxes or (as in this case) from the names given to them by the other characters.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Leopard Skin is fun because he is obviously dressed as a circus strongman, and that is because his crime career is an attempt to <i>frame<\/i> a circus strongman. The actual culprit, the circus <i>clown, <\/i>has to basically be caught before anyone else at the circus thinks to mention that the clown used to be the old strongman before a stronger strongman showed up and he got demoted and maybe might want revenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Action Comics 028, 1940) AKA the Leopard Skin Thief AKA the Strongarm Bandit &#8211; this is our first example of a clear super-villainous character who has not bothered to give themself a name and so we must take one from the text boxes or (as in this case) from the names given to them by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,17,23,1303,498,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-action-comics","category-dc-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-mr-leopard-skin","category-superman","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1544,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}