{"id":3441,"date":"2024-08-02T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:55:19","slug":"minor-super-villain-580-black-michael-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3441","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 580: BLACK MICHAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crash Comics Adventures 001, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Black Michael is the leader of a band of space pirates based on Pluto and beginning in the year 2140 he terrorizes the solar system, killing and plundering at will.<\/p>\n

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It’s unclear in the original story how long this state of affairs persists for, but a later installment of “the Solar Legion” takes place in 2260, suggesting that Black Michael and his crew might have been going strong for upwards of 120 years. That’s a lot of piracy!<\/p>\n

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All good things must come to an end, however. Black Michael and his entire crew (and a decent chunk of the Plutonian surface) are blown to smithereens by Adam Starr, founder of the Space Legion and real hard-ass.<\/p>\n

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OR WAS HE? In Crash Comics Adventures<\/i> 003 Adam Starr searches Mars for a missing heiress and finds not only her but his old enemy Black Michael in a new base under the famed canals of Mars (and of course <\/i>Jack Kirby loved the concept of the Martian canals – it’s evocative!).<\/p>\n

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Black Michael attempts to feed Starr (and his hostage, for some reason?) to the great Martian god\/monster\/fish Gansha but makes the fatal error of leaving him armed and both he and the Gansha meet their ends via the muzzle of Starr’s extremely over-powered ray gun. Do not take this man target shooting, folks.<\/p>\n

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Bonus image of the Gansha, the real star of the adventure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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