{"id":2219,"date":"2023-09-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:57:58","slug":"minor-super-villain-343-the-twister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 343: THE TWISTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Master 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\/AVvXsEj7_ZaH6bAErwV-h1RgBpinVBQZU721AZBK893voayiKNMfwz5OsJO25-jXqg9smkH_ZBhdTapr0P8gbcS6QwBGIauQrd-K-vi8J-Cbry0GbnKsT1CKEJGVrfJ62gD6PP1wk41LU_5P2IjkhTkwvmRyJDh5GMTbmqcs0XHPceS9PYcEKrPp9DMVkJhXi8VI\/w640-h292\/343%20the%20twister%20master%20008%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"510\" data-original-width=\"1119\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj7_ZaH6bAErwV-h1RgBpinVBQZU721AZBK893voayiKNMfwz5OsJO25-jXqg9smkH_ZBhdTapr0P8gbcS6QwBGIauQrd-K-vi8J-Cbry0GbnKsT1CKEJGVrfJ62gD6PP1wk41LU_5P2IjkhTkwvmRyJDh5GMTbmqcs0XHPceS9PYcEKrPp9DMVkJhXi8VI\/w640-h292\/343%20the%20twister%20master%20008%201940.JPG\" title=\"the twister\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Not a particularly distinguished entry today: the Twister is a gang boss who employs child pickpockets and keeps them in line with the threat of some semi-eponymous neck-twisting. No idea why he bothers with the robe and cowl &#8211; El Carim doesn&#8217;t even bother to unmask him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjGt_f0L6r-8etL_F-ilhk18j-B0Qb3IejxLDBePDdf48fAk-E6c1ltqwOFFTuhn3yxIk_FCxPsQa2g4xdSl4CExv2TE88sWEj8TX2WIjEJ0C4CCNBq5fgJaLh3BYRhK4vsLQEyYcmShyS0KvhzvftxyFr9pWCKIuDkds8sx3i45ODtkwAUHrvkepyN8Yb9\/w640-h298\/343%20the%20twister%20master%20009%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"574\" data-original-width=\"1230\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjGt_f0L6r-8etL_F-ilhk18j-B0Qb3IejxLDBePDdf48fAk-E6c1ltqwOFFTuhn3yxIk_FCxPsQa2g4xdSl4CExv2TE88sWEj8TX2WIjEJ0C4CCNBq5fgJaLh3BYRhK4vsLQEyYcmShyS0KvhzvftxyFr9pWCKIuDkds8sx3i45ODtkwAUHrvkepyN8Yb9\/w640-h298\/343%20the%20twister%20master%20009%201940.JPG\" title=\"the twister&apos;s gang\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>More fun than the Twister himself, in fact, is that his old gang is loyal enough to try to take revenge on El Carim in the next issue &#8211; a rare bit of continuity for the Golden Age.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 008, 1940) Not a particularly distinguished entry today: the Twister is a gang boss who employs child pickpockets and keeps them in line with the threat of some semi-eponymous neck-twisting. No idea why he bothers with the robe and cowl &#8211; El Carim doesn&#8217;t even bother to unmask him. More fun than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,441,175,47,1577,23,1578,7,843],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-el-carim","category-fawcett-comics","category-gang-boss","category-kid-crooks","category-minor-super-villain","category-school-of-crime","category-the","category-twister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","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=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}