{"id":3260,"date":"2022-05-10T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:43:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:43:35","slug":"minor-super-villain-004-the-purple-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3260","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 004: THE PURPLE TIGER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">(More Fun 012, 1936)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEijd48FKHYbXKJyvn6D6bJfrGOZ3vfg578UjMTerigrRr-mce8yBjjh_bfnTeqBfsjsjLCfoaoisRatAFf-gPJotrx6cLJdXchKaDrWXxMQbwRyVxYRGbXACk2RXTEKP3Ev6Z5OWpvh0G3HdZsAcHBa79WvHyJOl0wHebjszrJiLhC_S-TFj2AaduoZ2g\/s538\/4.%20the%20Purple%20Tiger.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"430\" data-original-width=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEijd48FKHYbXKJyvn6D6bJfrGOZ3vfg578UjMTerigrRr-mce8yBjjh_bfnTeqBfsjsjLCfoaoisRatAFf-gPJotrx6cLJdXchKaDrWXxMQbwRyVxYRGbXACk2RXTEKP3Ev6Z5OWpvh0G3HdZsAcHBa79WvHyJOl0wHebjszrJiLhC_S-TFj2AaduoZ2g\/s16000\/4.%20the%20Purple%20Tiger.JPG\" title=\"the Purple Tiger\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: arial;white-space: pre-wrap\">A member of the surprisingly robust fraternity of guys who get a head injury and then become criminal masterminds. Distinguished mainly by appearing in Radio Squad, a pre-Superman Siegel and Shuster joint featuring police offers with RADIOS in their CARS, which is honestly more revolutionary than it might sound to us in this far future year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: arial;white-space: pre-wrap\">SHOULD THEY BE BROUGHT BACK?<\/b><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: arial;white-space: pre-wrap\"> Honestly just putting this here to note that I won&#8217;t be adding this to every generic crime idiot&#8217;s mini-writeup. If it&#8217;s not there, just assume that my opinion is the same as for the Purple Tiger: There&#8217;s no reason to bring the specific character back, but it&#8217;s a perfectly fine name for a minor villain and you know I love legacy characters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;(More Fun 012, 1936) A member of the surprisingly robust fraternity of guys who get a head injury and then become criminal masterminds. Distinguished mainly by appearing in Radio Squad, a pre-Superman Siegel and Shuster joint featuring police offers with RADIOS in their CARS, which is honestly more revolutionary than it might sound to us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,17,47,1887,23,126,1886,494,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-244","category-dc-comics","category-gang-boss","category-head-injury","category-minor-super-villain","category-more-fun-comics","category-purple-tiger","category-radio-squad","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","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=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}