{"id":1714,"date":"2024-09-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1714"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:36:31","slug":"minor-super-villain-628-professor-donaldson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1714","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 628: PROFESSOR DONALDSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Fantastic Comics 011, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it’s nice to read a story about a straightforwardly criminal scientist, and that’s just what Professor Donaldson is. He’s invented an “electronic exploder” which can turn steel to dust and by gar if he isn’t going to use that to extort some money out of people with steel things that they would like to stay intact, such as the superstructure of a skyscraper.<\/p>\n

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Donaldson is also prepared to pivot: when his original attempt to set up a protection racket fails he attempts to extort NYC itself. This also <\/i>fails, because Samson is in the city and the Generic New York Mayor has a guy on staff who knows how super-heroes work. <\/i>Why, they often don’t even ask to be paid!<\/p>\n

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But Professor Donaldson just won’t stop pivoting! If extortion isn’t going to pay off then a steel-dissolving ray is the perfect thing for bank robbery! <\/p>\n

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The bank robbery is, alas, Donaldson’s last pivot before Samson and David catch up to him. He puts up a very brave front but ultimately a pasty-faced lab rat, even armed with a fire axe, is no match for David, let alone Samson.<\/p>\n

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At least Donaldson’s death is somewhat poetic, as he is run down, or “wrecked” by a train, just as he himself had wrecked a train in his earlier campaign to extort the city.<\/p>\n

Shout out also Professor Donaldson’s unusually large number of named henchmen. Good luck looking for new employment Buck, Butch, Silky, Mike, Slinky and Bill. Except not Buck because Samson killed him. Rest in peace, Buck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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