{"id":1815,"date":"2024-12-15T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:41:07","slug":"minor-super-villain-683-the-mayfair-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 683: THE MAYFAIR MONSTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Pep Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Inspector Bentley of Scotland Yard is an investigator with the same case profile as the Scooby-Doo Gang: he regularly encounters the supernatural in the course of his job and day-to-day life and just as regularly exposes them as guys in masks and so forth.<\/p>\n

In this case, Bentley is taking his evening constitutional when he interrupts an honest-to-goodness werewolf attack! He even breaks his signature weapon, his cane on the thing’s head!<\/p>\n

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Taking the victim – Brenda Joyce – home, Bentley meets her godfather\/guardian, Sir Rupert Napier, and learns from Brenda’s own occult library that the creature he had faced was the fabled Mayfair Monster, a local legend presumably from before Mayfair became an upper class neighbourhood of London.<\/p>\n

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Bentley’s suspicious are raised by some squirrely behaviour on Sir Rupert’s part and he engages in a bit of subterfuge whereby the “Brenda Joyce” sent home to convalesce is in fact Bentley in a wig. Sure enough, the Mayfair Monster makes a repeat appearance in Brenda’s bedroom that night and is swiftly subdued and unmasked.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly a convoluted way to murder your own ward for her money – I suppose the idea was to establish the existence of the werewolf with the very public first attack so as to have a ready-made suspect for the eventual murder. But why wear a monocle under an iron wolf mask?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pep Comics 001, 1940) Inspector Bentley of Scotland Yard is an investigator with the same case profile as the Scooby-Doo Gang: he regularly encounters the supernatural in the course of his job and day-to-day life and just as regularly exposes them as guys in masks and so forth. In this case, Bentley is taking his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,414,1431,674,1430,23,48,254,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bentley-of-scotland-yard","category-fake-werewolf","category-local-superstition","category-mayfair-monster","category-minor-super-villain","category-mlj","category-monocle","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","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=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}