{"id":1804,"date":"2023-03-28T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:39:21","slug":"generic-costumed-villain-round-up-004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 004"},"content":{"rendered":"

They’re back! They’re costumed! They’re generic!<\/p>\n

Shorty Jones\/ Generic Mummy<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It’s a sad day for me but I fear I have to classify this fake mummy as a generic costumed villain, even though he has a shortsword, one of the top swords. Ultimately, he’s just a thief named Shorty Jones who robs the museum every night and even with the power of the fake mummy on his side Shorty just isn’t interesting enough to qualify as a minor super-villain. (Detective Comics v1 053, 1941)<\/p>\n

Gritter<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Doc Savage battled this guy (real name the pretty good Gritter; posing as the amazingly-named Captain Blackstone Toy) who had a very complicated plan to blackmail the US Armed Forces. Also his chief henchman was named Fuzzy. (Doc Savage Comics 004, 1941)<\/p>\n

Deputy Cal<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This lady bandit is in fact Deputy Cal of the Twin Forks Sheriff’s office. His idea to crossdress as a major part of his holdup persona totally pays off, but unfortunately for him he completely fails to disguise himself in any other way – same distinctive horse, same clothes, a very confrontational attitude to anyone looking into the holdups rather than keeping his head down – and he swiftly gets run in by the Fargo Kid. (Feature Comics 048, 1941)<\/p>\n

Unnamed Killer<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This unnamed stablehand is that most banal of killers, a jilted suitor going after the romantic rival. But he goes to such effort! It takes two tries – with a remote-controlled sailboat and a sniper rfle – to get the guy, at which point the Red Bee impersonates him and is attacked with battleaxe, scythe, pitchfork and trap door.<\/p>\n

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Plus he dresses up as Death for one attempt! Truly this man was as close to non-generic as it’s possible to be while still being completely forgettable. (Hit Comics 014, 1941) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They’re back! They’re costumed! They’re generic! Shorty Jones\/ Generic Mummy:  It’s a sad day for me but I fear I have to classify this fake mummy as a generic costumed villain, even though he has a shortsword, one of the top swords. Ultimately, he’s just a thief named Shorty Jones who robs the museum every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1012,361,17,80,752,57,1424,86,197,280,58,56,1425,530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-cliff-crosby","category-crossdress","category-dc-comics","category-detective-comics","category-doc-savage","category-fake-undead-mummy","category-fargo-kid","category-feature-comics","category-generic-costumed-villain","category-hit-comics","category-names","category-quality-comics","category-red-bee","category-street-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}