{"id":3340,"date":"2026-01-22T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:50:28","slug":"generic-costumed-villain-round-up-035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"GENERIC COSTUMED VILLAIN ROUND-UP 035"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not every villain is super and they must learn to accept that.<\/p>\n

Miguel Greeze<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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He may just be a regular style crooked gambler looking to murder Golden Arrow in order to win a bet, but Miguel Greeze here is decked out in too good a costume to just ignore. Plus it’s impressive that he can make his legs go like that. (Whiz Comics 023, 1941)<\/p>\n

Konrad Schtienker<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Fascist assassin Konrad Schtienker is all-in on a tobacco product theme: he uses a tobacco shop as his HQ, kills government agents via packets of the ominously-named Blood-Tipped brand cigarettes (not that the cigarettes do the killing – they just serve as a way to release a mosquito containing a serum that compels fatal bouts of sleepwalking into the targets’ rooms) and even employs single-shot cigar guns to get out of jams. Too bad for him that Spy Smasher doesn’t smoke. (Whiz Comics 023, 1941)<\/p>\n

Black Rufus<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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There are three things to note about this fellow:<\/p>\n

1. His name is Black Rufus. It’s much more charming than menacing.<\/p>\n

2. I like his look. The hunched posture combined with the mantle\/poncho\/thing give him a real vulture-like air.<\/p>\n

3. He is the only villain faced by one-hit wonder the Rainbow, which I always find endearing. Did he ever get out of jail and take his revenge? We shall never know. (The Arrow 003, 1941)<\/p>\n

the Leader<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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It’s time for yet another Nazi spymaster named the Leader! This<\/i> Leader is a fellow named Phil Rogers, and he’s after a new super-bomb developed by one Professor Andrews for the US military, while wearing what I would describe as a charmingly homemade-looking hood if it didn’t have a swastika on the forehead. He fails of course, because he is entirely unprepared to deal with a completely invisible Solar, Master of Magic. (Captain Aero Comics 001, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not every villain is super and they must learn to accept that. Miguel Greeze:  He may just be a regular style crooked gambler looking to murder Golden Arrow in order to win a bet, but Miguel Greeze here is decked out in too good a costume to just ignore. Plus it’s impressive that he can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,716,144,156,175,197,908,980,201,1914,1915,700,297,7,191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-assassin","category-centaur","category-crypto-fascist","category-fawcett-comics","category-generic-costumed-villain","category-golden-arrow","category-leader","category-nazi","category-rainbow","category-solar-master-of-magic","category-spy-smasher","category-temerson","category-the","category-villains-of-the-past"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","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=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}