{"id":2217,"date":"2022-08-26T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:57:55","slug":"minor-super-villain-134-the-ghost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 134: THE GHOST"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Action Comics v1 039, 1941)<\/p>\n

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The Ghost is one of Superman’s earliest superpowered foes, being Brett Bryson, a chemist who was accidentally irradiated while conducting an experiment and, having found himself with both a burning radium touch and a short time left to live, set out to steal enough in the time he had left to provide for his family once he was finally gone.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But there is a twist to the Ghost’s story! The lab accident? Planned by Bryson’s greedy partners! The stolen money? Was never going to be delivered to Bryson’s family! I<\/i> like this because this is the earliest example of the On Purpose Lab Accident Origin that I’m aware of in comics and that’s a reasonably common origin! (Brett Bryson does not like it and murders his partner before dying himself)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Action Comics v1 039, 1941) The Ghost is one of Superman’s earliest superpowered foes, being Brett Bryson, a chemist who was accidentally irradiated while conducting an experiment and, having found himself with both a burning radium touch and a short time left to live, set out to steal enough in the time he had left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30,17,44,1576,605,1573,23,1575,1574,498,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-action-comics","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-dupe","category-ghost","category-limited-lifespan","category-minor-super-villain","category-on-purpose-lab-accident","category-radioactive","category-superman","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}