{"id":2604,"date":"2024-01-18T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:13:06","slug":"minor-super-villain-427-the-tusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 427: THE TUSK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Keen Detective Funnies v2 022, 1940) <\/p>\n

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I want to be clear: there is very little to talk about re: the Tusk. I just find his weird face fascinating. Eponymous tusk plus weak chin plus huge eyes plus bonus enormous combover makes this guy a visual feast! Plus he’s a Masked Marvel foe and I love that guy.<\/p>\n

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Just look at the faces he ends up pulling to highlight the tusk! Real great stuff.<\/p>\n

Oh, and as for the villainy: the Tusk has a super accurate bomb sight that allows him to blow up banks from super high altitude. I guess these mystery explosions cause enough confusion that his men can swoop in and loot unchallenged. The Masked Marvel also ends up being blamed for his crimes but the Tusk doesn’t have anything to do with that.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know the context in which the Tusk could be BRUNG BACK<\/b> but I wholeheartedly support and advocate for it. He would be a perfect addition to any rogues gallery that regularly gets together to kvetch about their foe. Just glaring in the back, tusk gleaming… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Keen Detective Funnies v2 022, 1940)  I want to be clear: there is very little to talk about re: the Tusk. I just find his weird face fascinating. Eponymous tusk plus weak chin plus huge eyes plus bonus enormous combover makes this guy a visual feast! Plus he’s a Masked Marvel foe and I love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,144,47,1505,23,7,1718],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bring-em-back","category-centaur","category-gang-boss","category-masked-marvel","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-tusk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}