{"id":2403,"date":"2023-10-07T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:03:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:03:35","slug":"minor-super-villain-354-the-masked-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 354: THE MASKED MAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 015, 1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi81n4jVd2suJ4I5fKS1HIKMn-HHFZgfW6yKt1TwfUt-Vdmsi8lLL6-VRlNgDoZ-ePK8JWqSjpCUF3b_NYAsyiFKTVT-uWGKXwiyl6MMgiTBklCN3pVFlMpZdAYCnimWiMdNAdWktr6EVLTqQy4lI2mvXVl_-DiduBS19LRpbcirfqAJ-n2qyrZL4jyRcRt\/w640-h292\/354a%20the%20masked%20man%20master%2015%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"542\" data-original-width=\"1192\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi81n4jVd2suJ4I5fKS1HIKMn-HHFZgfW6yKt1TwfUt-Vdmsi8lLL6-VRlNgDoZ-ePK8JWqSjpCUF3b_NYAsyiFKTVT-uWGKXwiyl6MMgiTBklCN3pVFlMpZdAYCnimWiMdNAdWktr6EVLTqQy4lI2mvXVl_-DiduBS19LRpbcirfqAJ-n2qyrZL4jyRcRt\/w640-h292\/354a%20the%20masked%20man%20master%2015%201941.JPG\" title=\"the masked man\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This really illustrates how the life of a mysterious adventurer is different from that of the rest of us: while driving through Florida, Zoro the Mystery Man stops at a random mansion, is rebuffed when he seeks admittance, and decides to snoop around. While you or I might discover, say, a private birthday party or merely a normal family who don&#8217;t particularly want to entertain every stranger who knocks on their door, Zoro instead finds a masked figure who is busily mutating the mansions inhabitants into ape-men. I guess once it happens to you a couple of times you just get an instinct for it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdqWb1aR47x3t_wScBXkTPdkaq7ksBk-knJULPULsWCOxlibgJnCcF3Dk3JUd6rlgJ8c6nNVCF6860QQZ6aRCDWVuPnSCH6fLfRdLZmmXmlAxask3YLZqXNoOLmO7idPCNzuRwqREykIqaXIFtGwmaN5o4J7uPwDWTSzyv7-i7Vv3HvL-zCPX988WcjRrF\/w640-h276\/354b%20the%20masked%20man%20master%2015%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"509\" data-original-width=\"1181\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjdqWb1aR47x3t_wScBXkTPdkaq7ksBk-knJULPULsWCOxlibgJnCcF3Dk3JUd6rlgJ8c6nNVCF6860QQZ6aRCDWVuPnSCH6fLfRdLZmmXmlAxask3YLZqXNoOLmO7idPCNzuRwqREykIqaXIFtGwmaN5o4J7uPwDWTSzyv7-i7Vv3HvL-zCPX988WcjRrF\/w640-h276\/354b%20the%20masked%20man%20master%2015%201941.JPG\" title=\"the masked man\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Hi-jinks of course ensue, culminating in the revelation that the culprit is Garvey, the black sheep of the family who presumably chose the ape-man route of seeking revenge because it was cooler than merely shooting up the joint. The point is, his name is Garvey Rantrill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 015, 1941) This really illustrates how the life of a mysterious adventurer is different from that of the rest of us: while driving through Florida, Zoro the Mystery Man stops at a random mansion, is rebuffed when he seeks admittance, and decides to snoop around. While you or I might discover, say, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,175,506,59,23,58,652,7,26,63,540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-fawcett-comics","category-mad-science","category-masked-man","category-minor-super-villain","category-names","category-radioactive-mutate","category-the","category-thief","category-unofficial-name","category-zoro-the-mystery-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","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=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}