{"id":2993,"date":"2022-08-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:38:53","slug":"minor-super-villain-139-ivan-borloff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2993","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 139: IVAN BORLOFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp;(Adventure 061, 1941)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghTlfFJEXX3Rg42lQpUHXCqw_CqCOtjYFJaYttKU4JhvUaw_z2_LCEn3ykixcNHhTKb7HM4hVmomSE7X3X-US3spbA3WBp2NqCp0OyHSe1fWmvF0Lb507ovW6yGLOct2hylE8xtgL0N5dkkaTok9gnzRqZBGi0GWmNP-MKmhH7PvIbYwz9TMAxz5OiSQ\/s1036\/119.%20Ivan%20Borloff%20adv%20061%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"760\" data-original-width=\"1036\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghTlfFJEXX3Rg42lQpUHXCqw_CqCOtjYFJaYttKU4JhvUaw_z2_LCEn3ykixcNHhTKb7HM4hVmomSE7X3X-US3spbA3WBp2NqCp0OyHSe1fWmvF0Lb507ovW6yGLOct2hylE8xtgL0N5dkkaTok9gnzRqZBGi0GWmNP-MKmhH7PvIbYwz9TMAxz5OiSQ\/w640-h470\/119.%20Ivan%20Borloff%20adv%20061%201941.JPG\" title=\"Ivan Borloff\" width=\"640\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Ivan Borloff is a strange combination of things: a scientist with a super airship (the <i>Cylindecraft<\/i>) and a metal-destroying ray, he rains destruction down on New York City in pursuit of his goal of conquering the US (and by implication, the world), but <i>also<\/i>, it&#8217;s implied that he is affiliated with *foreign powers*, ie, fascists &#8211; possibly ones who didn&#8217;t quite know what they were getting into.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">His name ringing more Russian might mean that he is a rare pre-Cold War Commie villain, but a more likely explanation is plain old lazy naming &#8211; German, Russian&#8230; it&#8217;s all basically the same, right?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;(Adventure 061, 1941) Ivan Borloff is a strange combination of things: a scientist with a super airship (the Cylindecraft) and a metal-destroying ray, he rains destruction down on New York City in pursuit of his goal of conquering the US (and by implication, the world), but also, it&#8217;s implied that he is affiliated with *foreign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,284,156,17,1837,121,23,539,101,167,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-adventure-comics","category-crypto-fascist","category-dc-comics","category-ivan-borloff","category-mass-destruction","category-minor-super-villain","category-sandman","category-scientist","category-super-vehicle","category-world-domination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993","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=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3000,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions\/3000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}