{"id":1666,"date":"2022-07-16T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:34:54","slug":"minor-super-villain-074-dr-togg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 074: DR TOGG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Adventure Comics 057, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgGpSyC_YdBnQmntqe549eFXgsRiyk3ylfzDUZu7PoB3RdC50mBgmbeFspqi2eDLpTxcdc2Eo-bpFsKD6Bf07BImdQXOT-bOyj2J8i14lsJf-Hw_gIanF-pkV7XFstxeZUgDAcCagLaMQl2aJiP3BM-2nhbDUO9e9yHbZX0-JL35GWhisD1qCaFZaRdjQ\/s16000\/70.%20Dr%20Togg.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"376\" data-original-width=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgGpSyC_YdBnQmntqe549eFXgsRiyk3ylfzDUZu7PoB3RdC50mBgmbeFspqi2eDLpTxcdc2Eo-bpFsKD6Bf07BImdQXOT-bOyj2J8i14lsJf-Hw_gIanF-pkV7XFstxeZUgDAcCagLaMQl2aJiP3BM-2nhbDUO9e9yHbZX0-JL35GWhisD1qCaFZaRdjQ\/s16000\/70.%20Dr%20Togg.JPG\" title=\"Dr Togg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-size: 14px;white-space: pre-wrap\">Yet another Hourman science-villain. Dr Togg was really into hybridizing dogs and buzzards in various fun ways. Such a cool guy was he, in fact, that he was brought back as an ancillary character in the 90s Hourman series, himself mutated into a partial dog\/buzzard in a retconned final encounter with Hourman before he was sent to prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-size: 14px;white-space: pre-wrap\">Thinking about him (and fellow Hourman foe <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2022\/09\/minor-super-villain-140-iker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iker <\/a>in about 50 entries or so), has made me realize just how much I love the concept of the reformed mad scientist with their struggles to comprehend scientific ethics and their weird little mutations and leftover minions. A few recent Marvel series have featured the concept but I would still consider it to be underutilized.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh-4zAc3qZWM-Aui3g_9Nj8JC7RL9kGhWmgA3na8F2JQIjQ8FZaLeULooEJlXyJJPmCT_bTPEzRAN1apg2zfD-UmE8dn_SjZXoXnCD1ehe4KbKHW-by4rofUJmHurBQiTjbonBuAGLmeYwgqlXWgOfsaLLw7uFtyhgPNq9cdUDaIUpouY6Iw3dNVIA8Jw\/w466-h640\/70a.%20dr%20togg.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"686\" data-original-width=\"499\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh-4zAc3qZWM-Aui3g_9Nj8JC7RL9kGhWmgA3na8F2JQIjQ8FZaLeULooEJlXyJJPmCT_bTPEzRAN1apg2zfD-UmE8dn_SjZXoXnCD1ehe4KbKHW-by4rofUJmHurBQiTjbonBuAGLmeYwgqlXWgOfsaLLw7uFtyhgPNq9cdUDaIUpouY6Iw3dNVIA8Jw\/w466-h640\/70a.%20dr%20togg.JPG\" title=\"Dr Togg\" width=\"466\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There&#8217;s our guy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-size: 14px;white-space: pre-wrap\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adventure Comics 057, 1940) Yet another Hourman science-villain. Dr Togg was really into hybridizing dogs and buzzards in various fun ways. Such a cool guy was he, in fact, that he was brought back as an ancillary character in the 90s Hourman series, himself mutated into a partial dog\/buzzard in a retconned final encounter with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,284,102,17,1348,352,506,23,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-adventure-comics","category-brung-back","category-dc-comics","category-dr-togg","category-hourman","category-mad-science","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-reformed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}