{"id":3305,"date":"2022-07-17T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:48:58","slug":"minor-super-villain-078-mr-glib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 078: MR GLIB"},"content":{"rendered":"

(All American Comics 011 & 013, 1940)<\/p>\n

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What makes them a super-villain? <\/b>He’s a guy who kind of looks like Satan (named I.M. Glib, natch) who uses such as invisibility fields and food spoiling chemicals to ransom cities and US Senators. A slam dunk, definitional villain.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What about them is interesting?<\/b> He’s a Golden Age scientific villain who made two appearances and <\/span>used the same technology in both of them<\/i>. This is almost unprecedented, I assure you – ordinarily someone who made their first foray into crime with invisibility tech would be sporting a time machine or an army of robots in their second. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(All American Comics 011 & 013, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? He’s a guy who kind of looks like Satan (named I.M. Glib, natch) who uses such as invisibility fields and food spoiling chemicals to ransom cities and US Senators. A slam dunk, definitional villain. What about them is interesting? He’s a Golden Age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,446,17,51,286,23,1905,1018,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-all-american-comics","category-dc-comics","category-extortionist","category-invisible","category-minor-super-villain","category-mr-glib","category-red-white-and-blue","category-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}