{"id":3432,"date":"2023-11-28T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:55:13","slug":"minor-super-villain-383-the-voodoo-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3432","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 383: THE VOODOO KING"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Voodoo King is nothing special: a colonial administrator in the the Kangean Islands of Indonesia (meaning that he is probably our first Dutch <\/i>super-villain), he uses his weird getup and knowledge of chemistry to scare off iron miners so that he can steal the diamonds that are also<\/i> abundant in the mine. Too bad for him that the mine owner is friends with pilot\/ adventurer Captain Desmo and so he gets his clock cleaned.<\/p>\n

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By far the best thing and also the biggest disappointment about the Voodoo King are the spooky speaker-equipped scarecrows that he uses to scare off the miners – they are very cool looking but I keep thinking that they are weird wicker robots and then getting sad when I remember that they are inanimate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(More Fun Comics 066, 1941)  The Voodoo King is nothing special: a colonial administrator in the the Kangean Islands of Indonesia (meaning that he is probably our first Dutch super-villain), he uses his weird getup and knowledge of chemistry to scare off iron miners so that he can steal the diamonds that are also abundant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,603,271,17,23,7,26,1938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-captain-desmo","category-colonialism","category-dc-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-thief","category-voodoo-king"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}