{"id":1640,"date":"2022-08-16T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:34:32","slug":"minor-super-villain-112-the-crime-lord-the-brain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 112: THE CRIME LORD\/ THE BRAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(More Fun Comics 062, 1940) <\/p>\n

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An early iteration of the classic tale of a brain that is freed of its cranium and becomes both powerful and EVIL, o<\/span>riginally just a man named Dexter with a skeletal system and all the organs, he then became a mysterious shadowy figure named the Crime Lord as he directed his minions toward an eventual takeover of the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Upon being freed from his bell jar, the Crime Lord became the rapidly-expanding Brain, who similarly grew his ambitions: no longer interested in conquest on a national level, he was now going to expand to fill the entire universe<\/i>. And he might have gotten away with it if the Spectre hadn’t shown up to shrivel him away to nothingness.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Bonus: the Spectre eating a bullet to save FDR.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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