{"id":2211,"date":"2022-08-24T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:57:51","slug":"minor-super-villain-125-the-gorilla-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 125: THE GORILLA MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Slam-Bang Comics 005, 1940)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHYVthhRDJSWGbKJCwqO3WpUmyT4yx-TWB1KDJGMBYEUtaN3EYCMqBgfe2qDm6RrY0t889A9ymoQUoLZ-e_nLD_HQ6lJP1N6s7SScNLP6u0IacfvrKtQXMv1lvFWmFKMvRx4puLd60qCCykEi3jQqG90u2pcJwWHd81nJfSX2XEPLKHGyT5VMa1WxtWA\/s16000\/107.%20Gorilla%20Man.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"333\" data-original-width=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHYVthhRDJSWGbKJCwqO3WpUmyT4yx-TWB1KDJGMBYEUtaN3EYCMqBgfe2qDm6RrY0t889A9ymoQUoLZ-e_nLD_HQ6lJP1N6s7SScNLP6u0IacfvrKtQXMv1lvFWmFKMvRx4puLd60qCCykEi3jQqG90u2pcJwWHd81nJfSX2XEPLKHGyT5VMa1WxtWA\/s16000\/107.%20Gorilla%20Man.JPG\" title=\"the Gorilla Man\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">A jewel thief who dresses up in a gorilla costume to commit crimes, what really stands out about the Gorilla Man is that he does so for no real reason? He just likes it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjpZ5llabr-e98e-Wh2g7w4LJ6BX3R8rdz5SvIhjR-8Tf8y2DC_sXwma3UuJaUGVej0ZYWudOtg7NHHvqoSG-gQ2S4DRezluzG6RKK5jMEIekn3Pk6v1cDstU7aDjFZkOg3_1N1cbF-F-J3GXuS9DZuh3rVb5bXMxuJwugwF2xMMKwrI2esBaDlG7REPw\/w640-h546\/107a.%20Gorilla%20Man.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"864\" data-original-width=\"1013\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjpZ5llabr-e98e-Wh2g7w4LJ6BX3R8rdz5SvIhjR-8Tf8y2DC_sXwma3UuJaUGVej0ZYWudOtg7NHHvqoSG-gQ2S4DRezluzG6RKK5jMEIekn3Pk6v1cDstU7aDjFZkOg3_1N1cbF-F-J3GXuS9DZuh3rVb5bXMxuJwugwF2xMMKwrI2esBaDlG7REPw\/w640-h546\/107a.%20Gorilla%20Man.JPG\" title=\"the Gorilla man\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">Hell, if anything it makes him <i>more<\/i> likely to get caught <\/span><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">since he has pulled this sort of job before and the gorilla costume is a bit of an attention getter. Is it reasonable to call this fictional character from more than 80 years ago a furry? Perhaps not, but I shall leave the question open to debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body\" style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin-left: 58px\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-photoGallery Tweet-photoGallery--photos0\" style=\"border-radius: 14px;margin-top: 10px;overflow: hidden;position: relative;width: 494px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-footer\" style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;margin-left: 58px\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-actions Tweet-actions--readOnly\" style=\"color: #536471;display: flex;margin-top: 10px\"><button aria-label=\"Retweet\" class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--retweet\" disabled=\"\" style=\"background-attachment: initial;background-image: initial;background-position: 0px 50%;background-repeat: initial;background-size: initial;border-color: initial;border-style: initial;border-width: 0px;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 12px;margin: 0px;min-width: 80px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px;text-align: left\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"Icon Icon--retweet\" style=\"background: transparent;display: inline-block;position: relative;vertical-align: baseline\"><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Slam-Bang Comics 005, 1940)&nbsp; A jewel thief who dresses up in a gorilla costume to commit crimes, what really stands out about the Gorilla Man is that he does so for no real reason? He just likes it? Hell, if anything it makes him more likely to get caught since he has pulled this sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44,175,1570,1571,23,805,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-dead","category-fawcett-comics","category-gorilla-man","category-jim-dolan","category-minor-super-villain","category-slam-bang-comics","category-the","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211","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=2211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2211\/revisions\/2212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}