{"id":176,"date":"2025-05-17T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:29:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-789-the-grand-dictator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 789: THE GRAND DICTATOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Sure-Fire Comics 003a, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Grand Dictator, aka Miko, is on a mission to conquer the US, and he’s doing it from a cool flying fortress. Miko and his men are probably intended to be at least Nazi-adjacent, but they don’t really come off that way, at least as compared with their contemporaries. I mean, sure, they’ve got the uniforms and the attitude, but where are the dimwitted goons named Hans and Franz shouting “Jah, jah!” as they scuttle off to commit civilian atrocities?<\/p>\n

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The Grand Dictator’s forces really stand out in the coolness of their military tech, including these very imposing flame guns…<\/p>\n

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The aforementioned flying fortress (including the terrific detail that the GD’s forces have solved the problem of how to make something huge in the sky look like a cloud by stapling cotton batting to the bottom like it’s a prop in an elementary school play)…<\/p>\n

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And in a bit of a combination of the first two, some fairly impractical-looking flame throwing planes.<\/p>\n

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We’re still quite early in the career of Flash Lightning, and so he’s still kind of finding his level with regards to the relative power of he and his opponents. Case in point: the main challenge that Lightning faces in this issue is in getting his companion on the lower right to safety, after which he destroys the Grand Dictator’s entire operation with one big lightning bolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Sure-Fire Comics 003a, 1940) The Grand Dictator, aka Miko, is on a mission to conquer the US, and he’s doing it from a cool flying fortress. Miko and his men are probably intended to be at least Nazi-adjacent, but they don’t really come off that way, at least as compared with their contemporaries. I mean, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,94,46,156,44,256,255,253,23,254,167,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-ace-magazines","category-conquest","category-crypto-fascist","category-dead","category-flash-lightning","category-grand-dictator","category-lash-lightning","category-minor-super-villain","category-monocle","category-super-vehicle","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}