{"id":2005,"date":"2025-02-20T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:48:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:48:33","slug":"supercut-skeletons-with-jobs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2005","title":{"rendered":"SUPERCUT: SKELETONS WITH JOBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Skeleton With a Job is a close cousin to the Looming Spectre of Death<\/a>, only instead of merely lurking symbolically, they do a little task symbolically. I love them and they enhance every comic panel or splash page that they appear in.<\/p>\n

COMMUNICATIONS<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Radio operator skeleton (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1942)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Telegraphy skeleton (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1942)<\/p>\n

CRIME<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Gangster skeleton (Hit Comics 014, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Murderer skeleton (Mystery Men Comics 007, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Saboteur skeleton (Jumbo Comics 022, 1940)<\/p>\n

MUSIC<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Conductor skeleton (Adventure Comics 068, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Violin skeleton (Feature Comics 035, 1940) <\/p>\n

SPORTS<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Football skeleton (Shield-Wizard Comics 002, 1940) <\/p>\n

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Jockey skeleton (The Spirit Section, 29 December, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

THEATRE<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Puppeteer skeleton (Shield-Wizard Comics 002, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Stagehand skeleton, I think (Blue Beetle Comics v1 010, 1941) <\/p>\n

TRADES<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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Not quite a skeleton but Blacksmith Skullhead can join the gang (Smash Comics 009, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

TRANSPORT<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Driving skeleton (The Funnies 047, 1940) <\/p>\n

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 Pilot skeleton (Smash Comics 007, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Stagecoach skeleton (Adventure Comics 060, 1941) <\/p>\n

WAR<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Soldier skeleton (Crack Comics 006, 1940) <\/p>\n

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Allied and Axis soldier skeletons (Smash Comics 007, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Sort of a generic ancient warrior skeleton (Smash Comics 012, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Roman-ish warrior skeleton (Smash Comics 014, 1940) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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German soldier skeleton. (Wings Comics 002, 1940) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Skeleton With a Job is a close cousin to the Looming Spectre of Death, only instead of merely lurking symbolically, they do a little task symbolically. I love them and they enhance every comic panel or splash page that they appear in. COMMUNICATIONS: Radio operator skeleton (Daring Mystery Comics 008, 1942) Telegraphy skeleton (Daring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[855,844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skeletons-with-jobs","category-supercut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","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=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}