{"id":1859,"date":"2024-02-23T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:44:32","slug":"minor-super-villain-458-barko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 458: BARKO"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Mystic Comics v1 002, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Barko is a mere extortionist who has blown up one mineshaft already and is heavily implying that another can be blown up if the mining concern doesn’t see clear to paying him off. Beyond that he is remarkable mostly for how seriously and thoroughly he responds to the appearance of the Blue Blaze on the scene:<\/p>\n

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Boulder.<\/p>\n

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Sniper rifle.<\/p>\n

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Attack dogs.<\/p>\n

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And finally dual-wielded freeze ray guns. All of this during the Blue Blaze’s short drive to the second mineshaft. The Blue Blaze is captured after being frozen solid but of course…<\/p>\n

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… freezing a fire-themed super-hero has a pretty low success rate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Mystic Comics v1 002, 1940) Barko is a mere extortionist who has blown up one mineshaft already and is heavily implying that another can be blown up if the mining concern doesn’t see clear to paying him off. Beyond that he is remarkable mostly for how seriously and thoroughly he responds to the appearance of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1459,1458,51,24,23,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-barko","category-blue-blaze","category-extortionist","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}