{"id":3685,"date":"2022-10-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:06:31","slug":"minor-super-villain-177-bram-thirla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3685","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 177: BRAM THIRLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Captain Marvel Adventures 001, 1941)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I waffled a bit on this guy – he’s just a regular-style vampire, after all. B<\/span>ut a regular-style vampire is like a ninja or a xenomorph (or a knight, a pirate, a robot, etc): a deadly threat super-villain level singly,<\/span> while also being easily killed when part of a group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So: Bram Thirla demonstrates a couple of important safety concerns specific to comic book science. Firstly: if you must<\/i> combine the practices of science and sorcery, at least do so in proper laboratory conditions, as performing experiments e.g., in a cemetery at midnight not only introduces quite a lot of unintentional variables but limits the ability to pre-plan safety precautions such as escape routes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondly: when sourcing human remains or brains, go the extra mile and try to get ahold of a nice person’s corpse. Sure it’s easier to bribe the prison morgue attendant to release the body of a recently executed mass murderer to you but now you have a murderer’s brain in your gorilla and that spells trouble. Or in this case: you’ve resurrected the body of a “mysterious and evil man” because nobody would object and now you’re being eaten by a vampire.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The best part of this story is presented above: Captain Marvel and Bram Thirla are incapable of hurting one another, so are locked in a race against time: can Captain Marvel do enough research on vampires to figure out how to bump off Thirla before Thirla catches him in his Billy Batson form?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The comic isn’t called Bram Thirla Adventures<\/i>, so thanks to HP Lovecraft’s seminal work The Vampire Legend<\/i>, Billy prevails and Thirla is reinterred.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Captain Marvel Adventures 001, 1941) I waffled a bit on this guy – he’s just a regular-style vampire, after all. But a regular-style vampire is like a ninja or a xenomorph (or a knight, a pirate, a robot, etc): a deadly threat super-villain level singly, while also being easily killed when part of a group. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2007,475,44,175,23,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bram-thirla","category-captain-marvel","category-dead","category-fawcett-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-undead-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","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=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}