{"id":3214,"date":"2022-08-24T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:42:04","slug":"minor-super-villain-123-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 123: THE DRAGON"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Slam-Bang Comics 004, 1940)<\/p>\n

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What makes them a super-villain? <\/b>Why, that snazzy outfit! Comics are full of people who run opium smuggling rings but very few look as good while doing it.<\/p>\n

What makes them interesting?<\/b> It depends on your definition of interesting, but this is the first costumed criminal on our list whose disguise includes pretending to be another race – specifically, the Dragon is a white hardware store owner named Jones who passes himself off as a Chinese master criminal until Jim Dolan, heroic magazine editor gets involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Slam-Bang Comics 004, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? Why, that snazzy outfit! Comics are full of people who run opium smuggling rings but very few look as good while doing it. What makes them interesting? It depends on your definition of interesting, but this is the first costumed criminal on our list whose disguise includes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1252,1506,175,47,1571,23,805,7,127,1171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-dragon","category-drug-smuggler","category-fawcett-comics","category-gang-boss","category-jim-dolan","category-minor-super-villain","category-slam-bang-comics","category-the","category-yellow-peril","category-yellowface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}