{"id":2466,"date":"2025-03-26T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:07:25","slug":"minor-super-villain-752-cadava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 752: CADAVA"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Smash Comics 015, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As we meet Cadava, he is all dressed up and off to attend a costume party, with some pretty harsh words and feeling for humanity in general and a lady named Diane in particular – seems that he has been shunned and rejected after some sort of accident. Also his little friend Soo Choo is there.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Also in attendance – in his super-hero costume<\/a>, no less! –  is the Ray, and luckily for Diane he is a naturally nosy guy. He sees the knight kidnapping her while creeping on random conversations (I assume) and while he doesn’t quite manage to prevent it, he is<\/i> now on the case.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Back in Cadava’s sewer lair, he reveals his identity to Diane, causing her to faint and effectively removing her from the story. This is a real shame, because Diane was really our major potential source of information on Cadava’s whole deal. Is he a man who has been so hurt by circumstance and an uncaring world that he is lashing out like the Ugliest Man in the World<\/a>, or was he always just a jerk? Regardless, I think that we can all agree that his decision to smash up what is probably NYC with some sort of earthquake ray is an unnecessary escalation.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Cadava and Soo Choo manage to put in a pretty good showing against the Ray, considering the fact that they are two regular guys facing off against a man made of light, but ultimately he just up and drowns them both. He who lives by the sewer dies by the sewer, as they say.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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