{"id":3945,"date":"2024-01-13T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:16:34","slug":"minor-super-villain-422-the-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 422: THE MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Keen Detective Funnies v2 002, 1939)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilejzuRciicgdgkpPAttElB2ijwGA5Idvs7oLn_eB3dxtPgEiVmDeiDqynmEg3t6jk63J3ks9bWbJfsry8ZefGFz9F1l8SmsWluk5f-YUo6oHMNwugzxcB2iPO9bfW1lvvTad9yBEJbBqdlleu2A_Mcgz0rBCpM9so2YRbo7JWSbEqkeFT2KAGAhVmgIkq\/w640-h448\/422a%20the%20master%20keen%20detective%20funnies%20002,%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"787\" data-original-width=\"1122\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEilejzuRciicgdgkpPAttElB2ijwGA5Idvs7oLn_eB3dxtPgEiVmDeiDqynmEg3t6jk63J3ks9bWbJfsry8ZefGFz9F1l8SmsWluk5f-YUo6oHMNwugzxcB2iPO9bfW1lvvTad9yBEJbBqdlleu2A_Mcgz0rBCpM9so2YRbo7JWSbEqkeFT2KAGAhVmgIkq\/w640-h448\/422a%20the%20master%20keen%20detective%20funnies%20002,%201939.JPG\" title=\"the master\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Another day, another guy named the Master. <i>This <\/i>Master is escaped lunatic Pierre Lacroix, leader of the Hooded Cult and would-be world conqueror. Lacroix maintains the loyalty of his cult via drug addiction and has a castle HQ. This is all penny-ante stuff.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQ0YfexXyMmfXZpfPjAvvrhzsP3j6gyh6nzFSVqzX4t8hrHF388lay8McOYcIj-zhf9tLP5qzwqCL7WQGTdlKxynt5IdgnZsSfU-r4DIgKiBG6yROb_IRiVjfOy1dumQjXDSkCyHHqfhMYGZV5UUlOAhPHxi6ARe9mAjwqqd2ifg8I2USRdOx9znltgB5F\/w640-h446\/422b%20the%20master%20keen%20detective%20funnies%20002,%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"785\" data-original-width=\"1126\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgQ0YfexXyMmfXZpfPjAvvrhzsP3j6gyh6nzFSVqzX4t8hrHF388lay8McOYcIj-zhf9tLP5qzwqCL7WQGTdlKxynt5IdgnZsSfU-r4DIgKiBG6yROb_IRiVjfOy1dumQjXDSkCyHHqfhMYGZV5UUlOAhPHxi6ARe9mAjwqqd2ifg8I2USRdOx9znltgB5F\/w640-h446\/422b%20the%20master%20keen%20detective%20funnies%20002,%201939.JPG\" title=\"the master\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The <i>most important thing<\/i> about the Master is his shirt. It&#8217;s like, a sweatshirt with attached cowl? Obviously other villains have been doing similar things with robes for years at this point but I feel like this was something special even if my knowledge of the future of super-villain costume design tells me that it is an evolutionary dead end.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he dies in an explosion but his contributions to villainous fashion will live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Keen Detective Funnies v2 002, 1939) Another day, another guy named the Master. This Master is escaped lunatic Pierre Lacroix, leader of the Hooded Cult and would-be world conqueror. Lacroix maintains the loyalty of his cult via drug addiction and has a castle HQ. This is all penny-ante stuff. The most important thing about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,144,16,207,44,1040,23,2082,7,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-centaur","category-costumes","category-cult-leader","category-dead","category-master","category-minor-super-villain","category-stoney-dawson","category-the","category-world-domination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","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=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}