{"id":2738,"date":"2022-10-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:16:14","slug":"minor-super-villain-169-the-swamp-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 169: THE SWAMP MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle Comics 010, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Once again I am faced with the painful dichotomy of a villain with all of the trappings I love – he’s a bombastic loudmouth with a bunch of costumed henchmen, who uses simple trickery to appear superhuman – but uses them in service to some frankly uninspired crimes.<\/p>\n

In this case, the Swamp Master (great name, too!) emerges from the swamp (natch) with his wet-suited Swampmen and a saurian monster that is actually a disguised series of cranes and flatcars. Driven by a lust for cold hard cash, he and the Swampmen steal whole trains and remove them to the swamp for looting.<\/p>\n

The problem<\/i> with this scheme is… everything? Stealing and looting entire trains (and murdering everyone on board!) might be a viable money-making scheme if you’re mobile,<\/i> but just sitting in one place and doing it over and over, particularly <\/i>in a super-hero universe, is a surefire ticket to jail or the grave, and the Swamp Master is lucky that he got the former.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle Comics 010, 1941) Once again I am faced with the painful dichotomy of a villain with all of the trappings I love – he’s a bombastic loudmouth with a bunch of costumed henchmen, who uses simple trickery to appear superhuman – but uses them in service to some frankly uninspired crimes. In this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,339,35,3,36,306,23,1753,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bandit","category-blue-beetle","category-fox-features","category-good-henchmen","category-mass-murderer","category-minor-super-villain","category-swamp-master","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}