{"id":2983,"date":"2024-03-29T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:32:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-482-dr-krako","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 482: DR KRAKO"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Big 3 Comics 003, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Dr Krako is a 1940s Blue Beetle villain, so he’s a (gang boss<\/strike>\/ criminal scientist) attempting to (kill Blue Beetle and then take over the city<\/strike>\/ take over the city if he has to kill Blue Beetle to do it). He also has the optional Dr Dodo<\/a> Memorial Sidequest of trying to kill Joan Mason because she is somehow the only person to know what he looks like even though he is going by his own name and, in fact, skywriting it above the city as part of some nebulous ransom notes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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But though the broad strokes of Dr Krako’s scheme may be a bit formulaic the specifics are anything but. Skeletons! He has a way to control skeletons with electricity! Skeletons driving cars and shooting bullets out of their heads!<\/p>\n

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Skeletons walking around and kidnapping people!<\/p>\n

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This skeleton is about to explode! In fact, that’s implicitly the foundation of Dr Krako’s entire scheme – he’s going to march a bunch of skeletons into NYC<\/strike> York City and explode them, then profit somehow. Sadly we never actually see it as he commits the cardinal super-villain sin of having the hero at his mercy and then messing around with deathtraps and such rather than just bumping him off. Obviously I care nothing for Dr Krako himself but his skeleton tech should be BRUNG BACK<\/b> at the earliest convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Big 3 Comics 003, 1941) Dr Krako is a 1940s Blue Beetle villain, so he’s a (gang boss\/ criminal scientist) attempting to (kill Blue Beetle and then take over the city\/ take over the city if he has to kill Blue Beetle to do it). He also has the optional Dr Dodo Memorial Sidequest of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,42,46,44,1832,23,1070,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-blue-beetle","category-bring-em-back","category-conquest","category-dead","category-dr-krako","category-minor-super-villain","category-science-skeletons","category-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}