{"id":1831,"date":"2022-11-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:41:59","slug":"generic-costumed-villain-round-up-003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 003"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another collection of also-rans and never-weres.<\/p>\n

Philip White<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Philip White here got exactly one panel into his career as a masked spy chief before Madam Fatal unmasked him. (Crack Comics 014, 1941)<\/p>\n

Basil<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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An auctioneer named Basil ran an overly complicated scheme to steal the fabled Five Bloodstones of Mu. His plans were also<\/i> undone by Madam Fatal and ended in his grisly demise. (Crack Comics 016, 1941)<\/p>\n

Unnamed<\/b> Crook<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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This unnamed thief almost <\/i>got away with the Dare Diamond under the very nose of detective Larry Steele. (Detective Comics v1 049, 1941)<\/p>\n

Howard<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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A baseball pitcher named Howard got up to some shady betting schemes and ended up a generic costumed villain. Let this be a lesson, kids. Also part of his big plan involved shooting himself in the arm with a gimmicked up baseball mitt-gun, which is an early sign that you might not be cut out for costumed villainy. (Detective Comics v1 052, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another collection of also-rans and never-weres. Philip White:  Philip White here got exactly one panel into his career as a masked spy chief before Madam Fatal unmasked him. (Crack Comics 014, 1941) Basil:  An auctioneer named Basil ran an overly complicated scheme to steal the fabled Five Bloodstones of Mu. His plans were also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,935,17,44,80,1228,197,661,1010,56,1085,129,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-crack-comics","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-detective-comics","category-fixing-sports","category-generic-costumed-villain","category-larry-steele","category-madam-fatal","category-quality-comics","category-slam-bradley","category-spy","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","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=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}