{"id":1827,"date":"2023-09-03T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:41:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:41:54","slug":"minor-super-villain-334-the-monocle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 334: THE MONOCLE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(All-Flash Quarterly 001, 1941) <\/p>\n

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I love a foppish gang boss, and the Monocle might just be the most foppish I’ve seen in some time. He’s got all the accessories: the monocle, natch, but also<\/i> the eccentric mustache, cigarette holder, neat suit with nosegay and<\/i> tiepin and <\/i>pocket square and to top it off one of the more eccentric comic book hobbies I have ever encountered: a twee little garden where he displays his stolen gems in artificial flowers. Pretty great stuff.<\/p>\n

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The Monocle is also<\/i> a technically-minded villain, whose main line is planning knockout gas-centric crimes but with a sideline in deathtraps – his booby-trapped HQ does a better job than most at almost bumping off the Flash.<\/p>\n

Of particular note is that the Monocle hits upon the same discovery as an unnamed criminal scientist<\/a> the year before: that though the Flash moves fast enough that he uproots shrubs and blows the clothing off of people in his wake, he also moves slow<\/i> enough that a stroboscopic lighting setup will make it possible to effectively aim a firearm at him. He might even have actually killed the Flash if, succumbing to the deathtrap-maker’s hubris, he hadn’t left mid-battle to check on his gem garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(All-Flash Quarterly 001, 1941)  I love a foppish gang boss, and the Monocle might just be the most foppish I’ve seen in some time. He’s got all the accessories: the monocle, natch, but also the eccentric mustache, cigarette holder, neat suit with nosegay and tiepin and pocket square and to top it off one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,15,47,495,23,254,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-dc-comics","category-flash","category-gang-boss","category-jewel-thief","category-minor-super-villain","category-monocle","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","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=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}