{"id":2368,"date":"2023-08-02T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:02:43","slug":"minor-super-hero-038-the-thunderer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2368","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO 038: THE THUNDERER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 007, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgo74ANEtUv7N39xX6cmQ_zSS1DiwBqAcsowj3woqbyipGjPb9Dd9Ue344MiCI2UJD643Le5Puq3Hv2qf6QTn_X9eC2SpMqAHU5t1R9QgeNLVcOdrCi5n5Dd0hN1GPQ-azKCwdi7jM-e8ZxkoghmmSmfIpSG52Vko6V_DcBPWBuCwqdLG3NNJhRdp1HgdSe\/w640-h302\/thunderer%20dar%20mys%207%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"548\" data-original-width=\"1165\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgo74ANEtUv7N39xX6cmQ_zSS1DiwBqAcsowj3woqbyipGjPb9Dd9Ue344MiCI2UJD643Le5Puq3Hv2qf6QTn_X9eC2SpMqAHU5t1R9QgeNLVcOdrCi5n5Dd0hN1GPQ-azKCwdi7jM-e8ZxkoghmmSmfIpSG52Vko6V_DcBPWBuCwqdLG3NNJhRdp1HgdSe\/w640-h302\/thunderer%20dar%20mys%207%201940.JPG\" title=\"thunderer\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lot to like about the Thunderer: great name, trend-based origin (ham radio enthusiast who finds crime on the airwaves\/ rigs up a microphone to enhance his presence with a booming voice), nice-looking costume that was ultimately his downfall (because <i>Marvel Comics<\/i> 1000 established that virtually every Marvel character who wore a full-face black mask were wearing the <i>same<\/i> mask, and some of them retroactively had to have died for the chain of mask-wearers to continue). Lot to like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjWpoHd96ezbz9jQXEYd--TSm0EAy7c2erDQfor1e-q1SNpfNjzbGaODC0_Z6LKebZ0pfIwqUTe3rlEb_UKicAJ240aGUfAk2fojGX2KTk20w5JSjQ6sZ7bqjsM_z-9TyBrK3NYvv8UqckxHtyt4yvckjWHdGDK4sqK8oUXXkYfI7af3FE22IClupKrqATh\/w640-h602\/thunderera%20dar%20mys%207%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"956\" data-original-width=\"1015\" height=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjWpoHd96ezbz9jQXEYd--TSm0EAy7c2erDQfor1e-q1SNpfNjzbGaODC0_Z6LKebZ0pfIwqUTe3rlEb_UKicAJ240aGUfAk2fojGX2KTk20w5JSjQ6sZ7bqjsM_z-9TyBrK3NYvv8UqckxHtyt4yvckjWHdGDK4sqK8oUXXkYfI7af3FE22IClupKrqATh\/w640-h602\/thunderera%20dar%20mys%207%201940.JPG\" title=\"thunderer\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favourite thing about him, however, is the fact that he turns down his amplifier in the 4th panel above, which <i>heavily implies<\/i> that he has been talking to himself at top volume while bounding over the rooftops. Just great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 007, 1941) Lot to like about the Thunderer: great name, trend-based origin (ham radio enthusiast who finds crime on the airwaves\/ rigs up a microphone to enhance his presence with a booming voice), nice-looking costume that was ultimately his downfall (because Marvel Comics 1000 established that virtually every Marvel character who wore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,44,24,4,1090,7,1634],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-dead","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-hero","category-retcon","category-the","category-thunderer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2369,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}