{"id":3291,"date":"2026-02-07T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:48:19","slug":"minor-super-villain-921-the-scaly-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3291","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 921: THE SCALY DRAGON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Scaly Dragon is what I would consider to be a very by-the-book fascist saboteur with a better-than-average name. He does have a couple of noteworthy things about him though, including 1. the fact that he is a pseudo-Imperial Japanese spy rather than the much more common pseudo-Nazis<\/i> that we usually see.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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2. Though the Scaly Dragon’s first couple of efforts were aimed at sabotaging the water supply of New York City (which is where the Human Meteor gets on his tail), his home base appears to be in Cincinnati, an oft-ignored city in comics.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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3. After he is rounded up by the Human Meteor, we get a rare scene of the Scaly Dragon getting booked. Most of the time these guys end up dead or just dropped off directly at a prison courtyard, so this is a real treat – I suppose the next milestone we must look forward to is a super-villain mug shot.<\/p>\n

Categorized in: Animals (Dragons)<\/a>, Espionage (Saboteurs)<\/a>, Locations (Cincinnati)<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Champ Comics 014, 1941) The Scaly Dragon is what I would consider to be a very by-the-book fascist saboteur with a better-than-average name. He does have a couple of noteworthy things about him though, including 1. the fact that he is a pseudo-Imperial Japanese spy rather than the much more common pseudo-Nazis that we usually see. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,156,239,346,23,345,1899,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-crypto-fascist","category-harvey-comics","category-human-meteor","category-minor-super-villain","category-saboteur","category-scaly-dragon","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291","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=3291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3291\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}