{"id":3947,"date":"2022-12-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3947"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:16:36","slug":"minor-super-villain-225-speed-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3947","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 225: SPEED INC"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Feature Comics 040, 1941)<\/p>\n

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It’s a common enough story in comics: a patriotic scientist (Dr Devlin) develops a bit of cool super-science (a speed serum) and his treacherous (and possibly dangerously Foreign, if his occasional Yoda-isms are any indication) assistant (Karl) appropriates it for criminal purposes. Karl’s real innovation here is that he’s prepared to scale up his operation beyond what a treacherous lab assistant usually does – per the panel caption above he has at least 30 super-fast men in his employ.<\/p>\n

But even 30 guys with dangerously accelerated metabolisms (at one point it’s asserted that they have only 2 years to live! Hopefully there’s a counter serum) are no match for the jodhpur-clad giant Ace of Space. Still, I can only admire Karl’s effort to achieve something greater than the usual penny-ante antics of the crooked lab assistant. Good job, Karl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Feature Comics 040, 1941) It’s a common enough story in comics: a patriotic scientist (Dr Devlin) develops a bit of cool super-science (a speed serum) and his treacherous (and possibly dangerously Foreign, if his occasional Yoda-isms are any indication) assistant (Karl) appropriates it for criminal purposes. Karl’s real innovation here is that he’s prepared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2069,86,13,1573,23,56,2083,769,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-ace-of-space","category-feature-comics","category-group","category-limited-lifespan","category-minor-super-villain","category-quality-comics","category-speed-inc","category-speedster","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947","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=3947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3948,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3947\/revisions\/3948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}