{"id":3523,"date":"2024-01-27T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3523"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:57:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:57:39","slug":"minor-super-villain-436-the-head-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3523","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 436: THE HEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Shadow Comics v1 004, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Yo, it’s the Head! The Head is a mystic oracle that takes the form of a spooky head in a box and uses his position as a popular upper crust medium to gather info on crime targets, then sends out gangsters (named things like Squint, Chipmunk and Beak Thungle) to plunder them.<\/p>\n

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The Head is also<\/i> Zovex, a bulletproof cube-man who is supposedly just a servant<\/i> of the Head but is mostly just a pile of armour plating.<\/p>\n

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The way the Head operates both as Zovex and as the head-in-a-box oracle is that he is in actuality just a tiny little guy who probably didn’t pose enough of a threat for the Shadow to have to gun him down like he does, even if he was<\/i> wearing tiny little curly shoes.<\/p>\n

This is all pretty standard fare as far as the comic book fake medium racket goes, but I appreciate a villain in a traditionally hands-off role getting out there in a suit of armour and mixing it up, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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