{"id":2427,"date":"2023-03-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:04:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-255-baldy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 255: BALDY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Green Lantern v1 002, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjz9y2jf5u6b1cFucea_Y-AFNvLV49ZlzXcAFxWb0eObiMf-WSHgpNvAMAJnMIkSf_y3k_ymnBFDc5GZfDAo8aC0W9NRs1C5KVGTZd7yLksSvSPndfnn4BynRz6nUJRYBJR4O3KjKqu_IHzODZSASU-VwURhs6v51fnoCUiZkJZz_33Q4fNiE7tQipYXg\/w640-h304\/255.%20Baldy%20green%20lantern%202%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"1047\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjz9y2jf5u6b1cFucea_Y-AFNvLV49ZlzXcAFxWb0eObiMf-WSHgpNvAMAJnMIkSf_y3k_ymnBFDc5GZfDAo8aC0W9NRs1C5KVGTZd7yLksSvSPndfnn4BynRz6nUJRYBJR4O3KjKqu_IHzODZSASU-VwURhs6v51fnoCUiZkJZz_33Q4fNiE7tQipYXg\/w640-h304\/255.%20Baldy%20green%20lantern%202%201941.JPG\" title=\"baldy\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>What can I say about Baldy? To start: he&#8217;s not really a bald guy, but a guy in a bald cap. That&#8217;s about as clever as he gets, if I&#8217;m honest.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, that might be a bit mean, but Baldy tries my patience. After seeing so many good villain ideas wasted on six-page nothing-stories over and over, it&#8217;s kind of galling for Baldy here to get a whole book-length tale of his own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Baldy is the crooked vice-president of a mortgage company who uses various strongarm tactics to enrich the company and himself. That&#8217;s it, barring a couple of colourful Italian stereotypes and a subplot about depressed lawyers. There&#8217;s lots of gunplay and Doiby Dickles bopping guys on the head but ultimately it all comes down to mortgages.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiyL2ijjlj2h5EdoIbqodm6o5AOV3EfXdXqnTvto7rzp9AjGHik1c-qdS1xOa9rc2DCjXnLqPu0f7kkg54n6pg8gXW-msvOCyHaiWxfAAfZ9QA9EKBWZpaiB6c3X9aOPXoQpMLQD5MjB0NNc23abYUaP3oFioEwp39ytvQp-_lckxb63rhuzzm2_v3AVg\/w640-h584\/255a.%20Baldy%20green%20lantern%202%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"557\" data-original-width=\"611\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiyL2ijjlj2h5EdoIbqodm6o5AOV3EfXdXqnTvto7rzp9AjGHik1c-qdS1xOa9rc2DCjXnLqPu0f7kkg54n6pg8gXW-msvOCyHaiWxfAAfZ9QA9EKBWZpaiB6c3X9aOPXoQpMLQD5MjB0NNc23abYUaP3oFioEwp39ytvQp-_lckxb63rhuzzm2_v3AVg\/w640-h584\/255a.%20Baldy%20green%20lantern%202%201941.JPG\" title=\"Baldy\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I do appreciate the self-seriousness of a guy with such a goofy <i>nom de crime<\/i> but it doesn&#8217;t make up for anything, Baldy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Green Lantern v1 002, 1941) What can I say about Baldy? To start: he&#8217;s not really a bald guy, but a guy in a bald cap. That&#8217;s about as clever as he gets, if I&#8217;m honest. Okay, that might be a bit mean, but Baldy tries my patience. After seeing so many good villain ideas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1658,61,17,1031,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-baldy","category-capitalism","category-dc-comics","category-green-lantern","category-minor-super-villain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","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=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}