{"id":2423,"date":"2023-06-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:04:09","slug":"minor-super-villain-305-the-black-toad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2423","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 305: THE BLACK TOAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Captain America Comics 007, 1941) <\/p>\n

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Here’s the problem with the Black Toad: he looks great. A really top-notch costume, like something Batman would have worn in a stage production in the 30s. No notes. And that’s the only interesting thing about him. He’s a baseball manager who wants to buy into the team and is killing players in order to drive the price down. HO HUM.<\/p>\n

(I guess he does use a bomb hidden inside a baseball at one point. That’s a bit <\/i>interesting, I suppose)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Captain America Comics 007, 1941)  Here’s the problem with the Black Toad: he looks great. A really top-notch costume, like something Batman would have worn in a stage production in the 30s. No notes. And that’s the only interesting thing about him. He’s a baseball manager who wants to buy into the team and is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1656,535,61,320,44,24,23,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-black-toad","category-bucky","category-capitalism","category-captain-america","category-dead","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423","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=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}