{"id":2620,"date":"2022-09-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:13:25","slug":"minor-super-villain-140-iker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2620","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 140: IKER"},"content":{"rendered":"

 (Adventure 064, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Yet another Hourman mad scientist foe, Iker (properly Dr T.Z. Iker, but the only time that shows up is on a mailbox) is a classic Victim of Orthodoxy, having been kicked out of the Science Club by the hidebound Dr Orr for espousing “fake theories”.<\/p>\n

Said fake theories enable Iker to build a machine capable either of creating lifeforms out of energy drawn from the 5th Dimension or of drawing lifeforms from the 5th Dimension and giving them form – it’s explained in a bit of a rush in the second-last panel – and he uses them for a bit of crime and revenge before being driven mad by his technology’s destruction in the climactic battle of the adventure. The important part is that some of them are knife-wielding dwarves and one of them is a giant version of himself named Normo.<\/p>\n

SHOULD THEY BE BROUGHT BACK?<\/b> is a moot question as I discovered when I did my customary check: he already has, in JSA<\/i> v1 005, 1999, as a rehabilitated employee of Tylerco! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 (Adventure 064, 1941) Yet another Hourman mad scientist foe, Iker (properly Dr T.Z. Iker, but the only time that shows up is on a mailbox) is a classic Victim of Orthodoxy, having been kicked out of the Science Club by the hidebound Dr Orr for espousing “fake theories”. Said fake theories enable Iker to build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,284,102,17,36,352,1723,506,23,28,101,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-adventure-comics","category-brung-back","category-dc-comics","category-good-henchmen","category-hourman","category-iker","category-mad-science","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-scientist","category-victim-of-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}