{"id":2282,"date":"2022-11-13T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:01:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:01:06","slug":"minor-super-villain-207-the-black-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2282","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 207: THE BLACK WITCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 018, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiXeDus2fihr6sWKiOr3RPL4Ir-mg0Jipm414jTyNZjInCHoJfyQ0PH2W-WonSE2hU8iMnqcsIuV1v8uvlnl5TsmKs2u7ZcbGIsXoXpJEuB9fVQYMQ8__C2hnBCRgk1awOlECqfJUxh8GYHyq5KUzK_gWey8LcX107qtDaTOvRmfzoVTu2k-FG3Bg_NHA\/w640-h296\/207.%20the%20black%20witch%20crack%20018%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"980\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiXeDus2fihr6sWKiOr3RPL4Ir-mg0Jipm414jTyNZjInCHoJfyQ0PH2W-WonSE2hU8iMnqcsIuV1v8uvlnl5TsmKs2u7ZcbGIsXoXpJEuB9fVQYMQ8__C2hnBCRgk1awOlECqfJUxh8GYHyq5KUzK_gWey8LcX107qtDaTOvRmfzoVTu2k-FG3Bg_NHA\/w640-h296\/207.%20the%20black%20witch%20crack%20018%201941.JPG\" title=\"black witch\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Black Witch is a member of a long comic book tradition: Haitian voodoo practitioners who use their sinister powers to get up to no good &#8211; in this case kidnapping the wife of one of Richard &#8220;Madam Fatal&#8221; Stanton&#8217;s friends as raw material in a search for eternal youth.<\/p>\n<p>The Black Witch is also part of a long-term demographic shift in comics: while the Haitian voodoo character is a staple villain s(and sometimes hero) into at least the 90s, in the early days they were basically all white folks like the Black Witch here, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/minor-super-villain-012-master-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Master of Corpses<\/a>. A question that I&#8217;m not qualified to answer: is this more racist than the state of things post 1960 or so when the population of voodoo villains more accurately represents the demographic makeup of Haiti or is it semi-vilifying an entire ethnoreligious group?&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 018, 1941) The Black Witch is a member of a long comic book tradition: Haitian voodoo practitioners who use their sinister powers to get up to no good &#8211; in this case kidnapping the wife of one of Richard &#8220;Madam Fatal&#8221; Stanton&#8217;s friends as raw material in a search for eternal youth. 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":[14,1610,935,44,1168,1010,131,23,56,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-black-witch","category-crack-comics","category-dead","category-living-zombies","category-madam-fatal","category-magic","category-minor-super-villain","category-quality-comics","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","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=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}