{"id":1839,"date":"2026-04-06T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:42:24","slug":"minor-super-villain-952-wolf-carson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 952: WOLF CARSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Daredevil Comics 006, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wolf Carson, gang boss, is in the hospital after being gunned down by his own traitorous associates. Faced with a choice between 1) dying of his wounds or 2) recovering so that the authorities can scoop him up and take him to jail, Carson takes the ever-popular option 3) take the nearby unethical doctor up on his offer to help cheat death via experimental science, in this case a total brain transplant!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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True to his word, the never-named doctor digs up Carson’s corpse that night and extracts its brain, then in a feat of pure super science (particularly given the state the brain must been in after sitting in a corpse for 12+ hrs) transplants it into…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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… A WOLF BODY! Now, just why the doctor chose to do this is never actually stated but I have a couple of theories that boil down to either him doing so as a way to control<\/i> Carson with the promise of a human body later etc or doing so because he was a terrible guy with a bad sense of humour. Either way, he pays for his choice of donor body with his life. In retrospect, I reckon that his mistake was in leaving Carson unrestrained and then pissing him off severely.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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With nothing else to live for, Carson turns to revenge as his motivation and systematically hunts down the members of the gang that betrayed him. Each murder is accompanied by a trademark “death howl,” which I am counting as a calling card.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Major complication: Carson has been found, mistaken for a regular dog and taken in by Bart “Daredevil” Hill’s fiance Tonia Saunders, which means that a jealous wolf is now after both Bart and<\/i> the Daredevil and also Tonia once she realizes just where her dog has been sneaking off to at night. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wolf or not, Carson is no match for the Daredevil and is soon captured. In a rare addendum, we get to see the villain’s trial (and please note the use of the term “brain wolf” to describe him in that newspaper headline – I dearly wanted to use that as his villain name but it’s clearly being used as a description of what he is rather than a moniker). Bart Hill actually manages to put two and two together and determine that the wolf is Carson, upon which the judge sets what I personally would consider a troubling precedent for a super-hero universe by ordering that the brain wolf be summarily sent to the pound and put down. I mean, I’m not a lawyer but that seems bad – some super-intelligent ape c.1976 is going to have to go to the Supreme Court to argue that he shouldn’t be summarily destroyed over a parking ticket.<\/p>\n

Revenge Killer Score: 4\/7 (counting Bart and Daredevil as two separate targets)<\/p>\n

Categorized in: Animals (Wolves)<\/a>, Murder (Revenge Killers)<\/a>, Origin (Human Brain in Animal Body)<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Daredevil Comics 006, 1941) Wolf Carson, gang boss, is in the hospital after being gunned down by his own traitorous associates. Faced with a choice between 1) dying of his wounds or 2) recovering so that the authorities can scoop him up and take him to jail, Carson takes the ever-popular option 3) take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1444,351,448,44,139,23,20,575,1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-animals-with-human-brains","category-calling-card","category-daredevil","category-dead","category-lev-gleason","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-revenge-killer","category-wolf-carson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}