{"id":2846,"date":"2023-09-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:23:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-348-the-seven-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 348: THE SEVEN MASTERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 012, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgUeXLJzojLjiDOKZLXoXFIb8lXrvuAyw0F5uT-4QBwgKGPBG_i-NYsRv3qbgwTvUynuzVk8KTnmuXi1Ih4V5j3pCAJyInHiiGGEdxLYuCmPfqMIqj5J25HACktC7rVfrS5NgTk3lfDlfT30EakdyTp7JpkAvlgm-8D3VZFjvL1LZuP8Xd2R2nz26VhtSNJ\/w640-h564\/348%20the%20Seven%20Masters%20master%20012%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"650\" data-original-width=\"737\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgUeXLJzojLjiDOKZLXoXFIb8lXrvuAyw0F5uT-4QBwgKGPBG_i-NYsRv3qbgwTvUynuzVk8KTnmuXi1Ih4V5j3pCAJyInHiiGGEdxLYuCmPfqMIqj5J25HACktC7rVfrS5NgTk3lfDlfT30EakdyTp7JpkAvlgm-8D3VZFjvL1LZuP8Xd2R2nz26VhtSNJ\/w640-h564\/348%20the%20Seven%20Masters%20master%20012%201941.JPG\" title=\"seven masters\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Seven Masters are just your regular drug smuggling\/ opium dealing gang operating out of San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown. They don&#8217;t get up to anything too spectacular &#8211; El Carim gets in on the action because the head of the gang is using his criminal might to try to get a woman to marry him instead of her boyfriend &#8211; and they trade on some pulp-era Yellow Peril tropes, but despite all of that I must admit to liking their style. The name! The robes! The custom sword-lowering engine! If only they all hadn&#8217;t been wasted on low-tier chumps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 012, 1941) The Seven Masters are just your regular drug smuggling\/ opium dealing gang operating out of San Francisco&#8217;s Chinatown. They don&#8217;t get up to anything too spectacular &#8211; El Carim gets in on the action because the head of the gang is using his criminal might to try to get a woman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1506,441,175,462,13,23,1793,7,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-drug-smuggler","category-el-carim","category-fawcett-comics","category-great-costumes","category-group","category-minor-super-villain","category-seven-masters","category-the","category-yellow-peril"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","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=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}