{"id":3299,"date":"2022-09-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3299"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:48:51","slug":"minor-super-villain-165-the-eel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3299","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 165: THE EEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">(<span>Blue Beetle v1 006, 1941)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUZh0zqod7-JfpwJMPBWPAwv3k8DbaNWeSQzTydr9cVbgqYV1yFCixCTY4bmUddXRUY9ltnU8Tw5T9PkOK_8XlnZkEe5z9Xp4fOx4OcfvZcgUaiGYotEpYs33n0bxb2Eu1aOzZXdq6Z1lMgDWWL5HSmiCibyBfmYuD2IsDNlfD59arNspraqhuVu2lOA\/w640-h228\/147.%20the%20eel%20blue%20beetle%206%201941.JPG\" style=\"font-family: inherit;margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"340\" data-original-width=\"957\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjUZh0zqod7-JfpwJMPBWPAwv3k8DbaNWeSQzTydr9cVbgqYV1yFCixCTY4bmUddXRUY9ltnU8Tw5T9PkOK_8XlnZkEe5z9Xp4fOx4OcfvZcgUaiGYotEpYs33n0bxb2Eu1aOzZXdq6Z1lMgDWWL5HSmiCibyBfmYuD2IsDNlfD59arNspraqhuVu2lOA\/w640-h228\/147.%20the%20eel%20blue%20beetle%206%201941.JPG\" title=\"the Eel\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><span><b>What makes them a super-villain?<\/b>&nbsp;I&#8217;ll be honest. The Eel&#8217;s initial plot &#8211; take over&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><strike>NYC<\/strike> York City <span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span>&#8216;s shipping industry in order to starve and thereby ransom the city &#8211; was, while ambitious, a bit old hat and I was going to write him off as another jagoff gang boss with a decent moniker. But then! He reveals his Room of Horrors(!) where he pickles his enemies alive(!!), and, well, <i>how could I not<\/i>?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Blue Beetle v1 006, 1941) What makes them a super-villain?&nbsp;I&#8217;ll be honest. The Eel&#8217;s initial plot &#8211; take over&nbsp;NYC York City &#8216;s shipping industry in order to starve and thereby ransom the city &#8211; was, while ambitious, a bit old hat and I was going to write him off as another jagoff gang boss with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,35,44,377,51,3,23,20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-blue-beetle","category-dead","category-eel","category-extortionist","category-fox-features","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299","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=3299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3299\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}