{"id":2817,"date":"2024-07-12T07:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2817"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:22:34","slug":"minor-super-villain-566-the-masked-czar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2817","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 566: THE MASKED CZAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

(The Comics 001, 1937) <\/p>\n

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The Masked Czar is a very minor masked gang boss who provides an object example into why most<\/i> masked gang bosses are fairly physically average specimens. Villains like the otherwise-unnamed Czar here – the tall, the short, the fat, the thin, the bald or the exceptionally hirsute – tend to go in for different ways of concealing their identities that might stand a better chance of working than a thin strip of fabric. Or they go all out, Penguin style, and lean into their appearance. What I’m saying is: this guy ain’t fooling nobody.<\/p>\n

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The Masked Czar also<\/i> provides an insight into the process of serialized storytelling, and particularly into the perils of reformatting it into a linear experience. Above are the final two panels of <\/i>the G-Man Jim adventure in The Comics<\/i> 001. G-Man Jim certainly is in a pickle, huh?<\/p>\n

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And here are the first two panels of the G-Man Jim story in The Comics<\/i> 002, in which we see that he is, in fact, not in a pickle. Say goodbye to the Masked Czar, kids!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Comics 001, 1937)  The Masked Czar is a very minor masked gang boss who provides an object example into why most masked gang bosses are fairly physically average specimens. Villains like the otherwise-unnamed Czar here – the tall, the short, the fat, the thin, the bald or the exceptionally hirsute – tend to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,226,1777,47,1778,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-240","category-dell","category-g-man-jim","category-gang-boss","category-masked-czar","category-minor-super-villain","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817","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=2817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2820,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2817\/revisions\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}