{"id":2332,"date":"2023-02-04T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:02:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-235-the-order-of-assassins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2332","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 235: THE ORDER OF ASSASSINS"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Flash Comics v1 005, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It’s another version of the old Order of Assassins<\/a>, this time as a revival founded by a supposed descendant of Hassan-i Sabbah<\/a>, the original Assassin of yore, though since he died in 1124 AD there’s a decent chance that anybody<\/i> is his descendant. <\/p>\n

Legitimacy aside, this buncha yahoos operates out of a city-fortress called Alamut (but somewhere in the vicinity of Egypt rather than Iran) and is engaged in a somewhat nebulous plot to conquer the world by assassinating various leaders, including that of the very delicious-sounding nation of Frappe. Hawkman foils this scheme with a few well-placed sling bullets, but even though their leaders are killed, the bulk of the organization survives, possibly as part of the next<\/i> iteration of the Order, whenever that crops up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Flash Comics v1 005, 1940) It’s another version of the old Order of Assassins, this time as a revival founded by a supposed descendant of Hassan-i Sabbah, the original Assassin of yore, though since he died in 1124 AD there’s a decent chance that anybody is his descendant.  Legitimacy aside, this buncha yahoos operates out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,716,17,104,13,309,23,1626,1100,914,7,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-assassin","category-dc-comics","category-flash-comics","category-group","category-hawkman","category-minor-super-villain","category-order-of-assassins","category-presidential-assassination-attempt","category-secret-society","category-the","category-world-domination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","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=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}