{"id":1929,"date":"2023-06-15T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:46:56","slug":"minor-super-villain-303-the-hangman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 303: THE HANGMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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There are three big reasons that I like the Hangman:<\/p>\n

1. It’s hard to beat a Golden or Silver Age story that revolves around a group of suspects who might be the villain. Just a series of fun character sketches followed by (in this case) the character’s grisly murder.<\/p>\n

2. The Hangman isn’t actually supposed to be a luchador but he sure does look like one, and that’s one of the top super-hero\/ villain looks.<\/p>\n

3. The Hangman is in reality… Dr Nicolai Vardoff, the supposed victim! Always a fun twist. His motivation? People kept bothering him when he was trying to work, so he faked his death and killed all the botherers, plus his best pal Ludwig. What a wacky dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Captain America Comics 006, 1941)  There are three big reasons that I like the Hangman: 1. It’s hard to beat a Golden or Silver Age story that revolves around a group of suspects who might be the villain. Just a series of fun character sketches followed by (in this case) the character’s grisly murder. 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,535,320,44,1484,24,23,20,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bucky","category-captain-america","category-dead","category-hangman","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}