{"id":2441,"date":"2024-01-21T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:04:48","slug":"minor-super-villain-430-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2441","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 430: THE DEVIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Mystery Men Comics 007, 1940)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg9U3sKCYXXSFzueMl4MSWYMpzR1Rf3s2jS0j70gDpFGj8tN1ZIMnlKhMMR0o1ywE9jtsdy51eJrr1cExxnz8ERIkDYuczZWeYIRXbHsKUSnqth_ME2GFV4WjdzwJuKXkUTVZJiJejiVT0Sq8DFKQbSvZQOISNaL0h6nFuIUDKHK-wfuVNr7vUNezqbRQK_\/w614-h640\/430a%20the%20devil%20mys%20men%20007%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"970\" data-original-width=\"932\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg9U3sKCYXXSFzueMl4MSWYMpzR1Rf3s2jS0j70gDpFGj8tN1ZIMnlKhMMR0o1ywE9jtsdy51eJrr1cExxnz8ERIkDYuczZWeYIRXbHsKUSnqth_ME2GFV4WjdzwJuKXkUTVZJiJejiVT0Sq8DFKQbSvZQOISNaL0h6nFuIUDKHK-wfuVNr7vUNezqbRQK_\/w614-h640\/430a%20the%20devil%20mys%20men%20007%201940.JPG\" title=\"the devil\" width=\"614\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t help but love this guy: yes he&#8217;s a cheap extortionist who gives himself a scary name to enhance his death threats but he goes to the trouble of dressing up in a devil outfit even while sneaking around so that nobody can see him. And since he&#8217;s the antagonist of a Wing Turner story and Wing Turner is a pilot-detective, the Devil is flying around in a fighter plane dressed in little horns and red briefs (and appears to be barefoot, which must be uncomfortable if flying a plane involves working any pedals). There&#8217;s just something about a costumed pilot that is wildly endearing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi88ukjSxX_WOBArRJzOv0fik3oIUPjH_FHglTO97PotlllOPRIj7Nas-5By7Lf0XkKxS1qpjx33YpvMBGsf5O2KbOB52CnMaJiFGPgt8y2M5qVbctfcXGnAr8KQcVNmY6vVIpE6vTsGKWH4fxzpnHR5si8fdBnEq4y4HHljJcZjuVsG8-KkMCdvppQn0ta\/w622-h640\/430b%20the%20devil%20mys%20men%20007%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"970\" data-original-width=\"943\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi88ukjSxX_WOBArRJzOv0fik3oIUPjH_FHglTO97PotlllOPRIj7Nas-5By7Lf0XkKxS1qpjx33YpvMBGsf5O2KbOB52CnMaJiFGPgt8y2M5qVbctfcXGnAr8KQcVNmY6vVIpE6vTsGKWH4fxzpnHR5si8fdBnEq4y4HHljJcZjuVsG8-KkMCdvppQn0ta\/w622-h640\/430b%20the%20devil%20mys%20men%20007%201940.JPG\" title=\"the devil\" width=\"622\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Devil of course turns out to be Baldy Barry, a regular extortionist who jumps into a lava pit rather than be caught. Over the top for an extortion charge I reckon, but at least he was on brand to the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Mystery Men Comics 007, 1940)&nbsp; I can&#8217;t help but love this guy: yes he&#8217;s a cheap extortionist who gives himself a scary name to enhance his death threats but he goes to the trouble of dressing up in a devil outfit even while sneaking around so that nobody can see him. And since he&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44,1072,51,3,23,579,7,1664],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-dead","category-devil","category-extortionist","category-fox-features","category-minor-super-villain","category-pilot","category-the","category-wing-turner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","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=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}