{"id":1614,"date":"2024-05-29T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:34:01","slug":"minor-super-villain-529-ratzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1614","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 529: RATZER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blue Ribbon Comics 018, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Ratzer is a Nazi agent who tangles with American-serving-in-the British-Army Corporal Collins a couple of times. There’s not a lot to say about him, honestly: the first time he meets Collins he’s trying to spring a load of Nazi prisoners and destroy a lot of British gun cotton in then-Bombay, while the second time he’s stealing oil in Iraq. He is not notably villainous, particularly in the ranks of Nazi super-villains.<\/p>\n

He does, however, have a certain style, so I’ll speak on that. Starting with his plane! I really like the question mark! Custom planes are absolutely the on the list of things that make aviator characters at least a bit interesting.<\/p>\n

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I wouldn’t call Ratzer’s costume one of the greatest of all time but it does have some flair, particularly with the little scarf dangling off the top of his head. And as a bonus it doesn’t have any swastikas on it, which I appreciate a lot more than I did before I started posting pictures of super-villains online regularly.<\/p>\n

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Ratzer’s second appearance doesn’t really involve flying and so he’s dressed in what I guess is his Desert Combat Costume – perhaps he has a whole closet full of slight variations on the theme, like a 1990s action figure line. Look out for Ocean Exploration Ratzer!<\/p>\n

In any case, I like this costume best – he looks a bit like a pro wrestler.<\/p>\n

At the end of his second appearance Ratzer gets away again and just… never returns. This is probably down to the end of Blue Ribbon Comics<\/i> when Corporal Collins moved over to being a supporting character to MLJ’s other military hero Sergeant Boyle. No room for the secondary characters to have their own villains, after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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