{"id":214,"date":"2024-10-22T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:30:18","slug":"creeps-of-the-world-the-termite-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"CREEPS OF THE WORLD: THE TERMITE MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Fight Comics 008, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiYMMOWSx0927j4EnGBW-56OII10WC3hCRQ2Exj3GHx8V-0MCcY18qYjpT512pgnNVVuAlX-9M9kXx_9fwL-y8mYsRptKDRRK9bTZ-3wjszXob2RXW4oIyqxYwRzREHyPuYWhGcVCxEMnjGl6ATyMeWlkE_bzA54mmbY5fc2yu0e4-CqUgjiD0g0a4Z2x-H\/w640-h588\/termite%20men%20fight%20008%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"977\" data-original-width=\"1065\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiYMMOWSx0927j4EnGBW-56OII10WC3hCRQ2Exj3GHx8V-0MCcY18qYjpT512pgnNVVuAlX-9M9kXx_9fwL-y8mYsRptKDRRK9bTZ-3wjszXob2RXW4oIyqxYwRzREHyPuYWhGcVCxEMnjGl6ATyMeWlkE_bzA54mmbY5fc2yu0e4-CqUgjiD0g0a4Z2x-H\/w640-h588\/termite%20men%20fight%20008%201940.JPG\" title=\"termite men\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>No origin or motivation for the Termite Men is provided. They just burrow up through the basement of Rip Regan, Power-Man and declare their intent to destroy San Francisco via chewing. Probably San Francisco &#8211; that&#8217;s where Power-Man started out but the slow process of comic book urban alchemy might have already transferred him to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he ends up gassing them all to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fight Comics 008, 1940) No origin or motivation for the Termite Men is provided. They just burrow up through the basement of Rip Regan, Power-Man and declare their intent to destroy San Francisco via chewing. Probably San Francisco &#8211; that&#8217;s where Power-Man started out but the slow process of comic book urban alchemy might have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,289,99,318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-creeps-of-the-world","category-fiction-house","category-power-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}