{"id":2780,"date":"2023-12-31T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:21:44","slug":"minor-super-hero-047-the-headless-horseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO 047: THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Amazing Mystery Funnies v3 003, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgH7bkLQosIPzcpwJ2TI60as8DSl0g1z6n_Uh-GMb43ElCYxK9HHPD3SPHmxP81dzjkM0o4bofutGDKActT4a4AR022Co1BUT4Jm8fQEQcpAQF7M7ZiD9UJm4GjE_qL3rGB9aVmLts_Ix9EdCZ9MrYHshr4I5P5ye8WtMuL_XjXPWzgSpPfJLz6fPElHEZx\/w640-h460\/the%20headless%20horseman%20amaz%20mys%20fun%20v3%20003%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"930\" data-original-width=\"1295\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgH7bkLQosIPzcpwJ2TI60as8DSl0g1z6n_Uh-GMb43ElCYxK9HHPD3SPHmxP81dzjkM0o4bofutGDKActT4a4AR022Co1BUT4Jm8fQEQcpAQF7M7ZiD9UJm4GjE_qL3rGB9aVmLts_Ix9EdCZ9MrYHshr4I5P5ye8WtMuL_XjXPWzgSpPfJLz6fPElHEZx\/w640-h460\/the%20headless%20horseman%20amaz%20mys%20fun%20v3%20003%201940.JPG\" title=\"headless horseman\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just a cheeky super-hero for you today: the Headless Horseman! The Headless Horseman is an utterly standard western hero <i>except<\/i> for their lack of a head. They made maybe two appearances in Centaur comics before fading into the mists of history. A shame, because I really like the simple spin a fake supernatural Western hero gives things &#8211; I can&#8217;t think of too many of them other than the various Ghost Riders. The cowboy ones, not the motorcycle ones.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkV4gtIOa_T7BG88tA5Lo2T7ggRyGaGZ4slvZzEUfwgmHympQ2iS89A2c8biaeHSHVzfhb-WghNTEkhpV3dDX_FC9_qKvKX-05MRi3yb5Vwn3_Za6TQPpi0wCiXwRvrZjOLYFoPnQdCqtP19_9rIWdgZMN9GTGA3hvTGJp8YexBnF6rWS4W74TMva1Rs_p\/w640-h458\/the%20headless%20horseman%20amaz%20mys%20fun%20v3%20003%201940%20a.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"927\" data-original-width=\"1295\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkV4gtIOa_T7BG88tA5Lo2T7ggRyGaGZ4slvZzEUfwgmHympQ2iS89A2c8biaeHSHVzfhb-WghNTEkhpV3dDX_FC9_qKvKX-05MRi3yb5Vwn3_Za6TQPpi0wCiXwRvrZjOLYFoPnQdCqtP19_9rIWdgZMN9GTGA3hvTGJp8YexBnF6rWS4W74TMva1Rs_p\/w640-h458\/the%20headless%20horseman%20amaz%20mys%20fun%20v3%20003%201940%20a.JPG\" title=\"headless horseman\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>You may have noticed a cheeky gender neutral pronoun or two up above and that&#8217;s because the Headless Horseman&#8230; is actually a Head-Having Horsewoman! Her name is Betty and in addition to having no assigned last name she is pretty scantly characterized outside of her vigilantism &#8211; she was educated Back East, she runs a saloon along with her&#8230; mother? and is friends with the doofus sheriff&#8217;s deputy, who functions as her source of breaking crime information.<\/p>\n<p>Utterly charming concept. <b>BRING <\/b>her <b>BACK <\/b>immediately, someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Amazing Mystery Funnies v3 003, 1940) Just a cheeky super-hero for you today: the Headless Horseman! The Headless Horseman is an utterly standard western hero except for their lack of a head. They made maybe two appearances in Centaur comics before fading into the mists of history. A shame, because I really like the simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,144,361,1768,1767,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bring-em-back","category-centaur","category-crossdress","category-fake-undead-headless-horseman","category-headless-horseman","category-minor-super-hero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780","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=2780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2780\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}