{"id":324,"date":"2024-12-25T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:34:59","slug":"minor-super-villain-689-the-man-monster-of-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 689: THE MAN-MONSTER OF LONDON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Man-Monster of London, aka Monk, doesn’t actually play that big a part in the plot of this Bentley of Scotland Yard story. I mean, he’s in<\/i> a lot of it, but he doesn’t have a lot of volition of his own. In brief, the Rajah of Inrak (which is probably meant to be an Indian province or kingdom and not a whole country of its own) is in London to discuss some sort of treaty with the government of the UK and a fellow named Remek has been hired to prevent this meeting from taking place and the Man-Monster works for him. He’s very much the most spectacular part of the whole affair but he’s not really driving the action.<\/p>\n

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The Man-Monster and Remek both end up being gunned down in self defense by Inspector Bentley and it’s honestly more sad than anything else – we never really get any idea of what Monk is<\/i> exactly (some sort of mutant? a member of some isolated community of superhumans? just a big strong guy dyed green?), but whatever he is he clearly cares for Remek and doesn’t seem like he really chose<\/i> to be a superhuman goon.<\/p>\n

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ADDENDUM: If you bothered to read that text panel above you might have noticed that one of the potential suspects was the Prime Minister, as in the Prime Minister of England, who I assume was included purely because they were short on named characters for the suspect list this issue. This is him: not precisely <\/i>Sir Neville Chamberlain (who would’ve just resigned as this issue was being put together) but close enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pep Comics 005, 1940)  The Man-Monster of London, aka Monk, doesn’t actually play that big a part in the plot of this Bentley of Scotland Yard story. I mean, he’s in a lot of it, but he doesn’t have a lot of volition of his own. In brief, the Rajah of Inrak (which is probably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,414,44,113,54,461,23,48,270,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bentley-of-scotland-yard","category-dead","category-henchman","category-kidnapper","category-man-monster-of-london","category-minor-super-villain","category-mlj","category-real-folk","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}