{"id":4023,"date":"2022-05-11T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T16:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4023"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:23:35","slug":"minor-super-villain-006-the-lord-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4023","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 006: THE LORD OF LIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">&nbsp;(More Fun 018, 1937)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgsoobloDHEwNTiCv_BlGwxV6Fy2kXRBmQCiJ8fjKn9m31TqmTE_yDVHSc9IQ-BX9enf3kJWqHLjSqX-e8ZVmiq-HfFTTmDws377K98b2bqi1UX_w9N5RBuNJ86O90u_ujWPmccuMasKVCpZ3K3l97L4rPgp1CuJg0Tv4zVH_uMS0oRzLKUzy9clcb4CQ\/s521\/6.%20Lord%20of%20Life.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"494\" data-original-width=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgsoobloDHEwNTiCv_BlGwxV6Fy2kXRBmQCiJ8fjKn9m31TqmTE_yDVHSc9IQ-BX9enf3kJWqHLjSqX-e8ZVmiq-HfFTTmDws377K98b2bqi1UX_w9N5RBuNJ86O90u_ujWPmccuMasKVCpZ3K3l97L4rPgp1CuJg0Tv4zVH_uMS0oRzLKUzy9clcb4CQ\/s16000\/6.%20Lord%20of%20Life.JPG\" title=\"the Lord of Life\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Used a drug to simulate death in others, then revived them post-funeral and made them do his bidding by claiming that without continual treatments they would die again. Unfortunately for him, he tried the same trick on Dr Occult and was unmasked as a fraud, leading to his swift murder at the hands of his former minions.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\"><b>SHOULD THEY BE BROUGHT BACK?<\/b>&nbsp;My initial thought was that he would only be useful as a legacy name, but if, say, you were telling a Dr Occult yarn and worked in a recap of the original adventure early on then a reveal of the Lord of Life as someone who had <i>really<\/i>&nbsp;returned from the dead could be a nice cliffhanger\/ ongoing mystery. Heck, tie it in with the <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/minor-super-villain-003-methuselah.html\" target=\"_blank\">Methuselah <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/minor-super-villain-002-vampire-master.html\" target=\"_blank\">Vampire Master<\/a> stories (and maybe even work in something to do with the <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2022\/05\/minor-super-villain-012-master-of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Master of Corpses<\/a>, MSV No. 12) and you could have a neat little adventure where Dr Occult must reckon with the legacies of his earliest cases. Fun!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;(More Fun 018, 1937) Used a drug to simulate death in others, then revived them post-funeral and made them do his bidding by claiming that without continual treatments they would die again. Unfortunately for him, he tried the same trick on Dr Occult and was unmasked as a fraud, leading to his swift murder at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,42,17,44,245,1917,2114,2115,23,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-240","category-bring-em-back","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-doctor-occult","category-fake-undead-science-revenants","category-lord-of-life","category-mass-manipulator","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023","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=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions\/4024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}