{"id":3698,"date":"2024-04-09T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:07:04","slug":"minor-super-villain-492-the-blue-death-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3698","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 492: THE BLUE DEATH KILLER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Big Shot Comics 006, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Someone is killing old policemen! And furthermore, they’re doing it in such a way that their skin is tinted blue as they die! Unsurprisingly, this ends up being called the Blue Death. But Who is administering it, and why?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It’s a short story, so we find out pretty quickly that the culprit is one Doctor Swanson and he’s getting revenge on the eight police officers who arrested him twenty-three years earlier, using special arsenic\/ phosphorous\/ radium darts. What was he arrested for? What is he a doctor of? These questions are not answered before he is killed in a shootout with gunslinging District Attorney Tom Kerry.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Spotlight On: the article on Swanson’s initial arrest including the partial text “… throat cut… eyes… gouged out… tongue… pulled out…” It really was a heck of an arrest.<\/p>\n

JUDGE AND JURY<\/strike> ARRESTING OFFICER REVENGE KILLING SCORE: 3\/8<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Big Shot Comics 006, 1940) Someone is killing old policemen! And furthermore, they’re doing it in such a way that their skin is tinted blue as they die! Unsurprisingly, this ends up being called the Blue Death. But Who is administering it, and why? It’s a short story, so we find out pretty quickly that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2016,109,44,671,23,7,892],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-blue-death-killer","category-columbia","category-dead","category-judge-and-jury-revenge-killer","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-tom-kerry-district-attorney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3699,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}