{"id":1693,"date":"2025-03-09T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:35:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:35:42","slug":"minor-super-villain-738-kadu-kan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 738: KADU-KAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Smash Comics 006, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Time for a very obscure character indeed: Kadu-Kan, who put out Black X’s eye in an attempt to induce him to spill some military secrets. Kadu-Kan is therefore a major figure in the history of the character to be mentioned in one panel and never again, and then only to provide a reason for Black X’s ever-present monocle.<\/p>\n

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(Speaking of Black X and setups with no real payoff, the first Black X adventure in Feature Funnies <\/i>013, 1938 includes this enemy spy who is a double of Black X and escapes into the night at the end of the story, to never return)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Smash Comics 006, 1940) Time for a very obscure character indeed: Kadu-Kan, who put out Black X’s eye in an attempt to induce him to spill some military secrets. Kadu-Kan is therefore a major figure in the history of the character to be mentioned in one panel and never again, and then only to provide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,5,275,229,1368,23,254,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-32","category-5","category-black-x","category-espionage","category-kadu-kan","category-minor-super-villain","category-monocle","category-quality-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","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=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}