{"id":4041,"date":"2023-12-15T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:23:52","slug":"minor-super-villain-397-adam-igorovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4041","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 397: ADAM IGOROVICH"},"content":{"rendered":"

(More Fun Comics 071, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Adam Igorovich! Your typical scientist unhinged by his treatment by the scientific community, who deemed his theories impractical and\/or dangerous and\/or insane, so now he is striking back at the world using those selfsame theories to get his back. If we’ve seen it once we’ve seen it a million times.<\/p>\n

There’s one important difference between the machinations of Adam Igorovich and those of, say, the Master<\/a> (the last<\/i> Russian-ish scientist we saw battle Dr Fate): while the master’s sonic death weapon was a finely tuned device capable of targeting everything from a person to a building, Igorovich’s technology is a solar magnet capable of stopping the rotation and orbit of the Earth and moving it closer to the Sun. The willingness to use apocalyptic technology like this in a simple worldwide extortion scheme is the difference between science and Mad Science. Take note, undergraduates!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After he roasts portions of the Earth’s surface for a while via manipulation of it’s orbit (and what a wild thing to never be mentioned again, the fact that the whole world stopped moving for half a day. Twice!), Igorovich attracts the attention of Dr Fate and gets so thoroughly foiled that he chooses the classic mad scientist’s exit of blowing up his entire compound around him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(More Fun Comics 071, 1941) Adam Igorovich! Your typical scientist unhinged by his treatment by the scientific community, who deemed his theories impractical and\/or dangerous and\/or insane, so now he is striking back at the world using those selfsame theories to get his back. If we’ve seen it once we’ve seen it a million times. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2120,17,44,159,506,23,182,1265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-adam-igorovich","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-dr-fate","category-mad-science","category-minor-super-villain","category-victim-of-orthodoxy","category-world-ransomer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041","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=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}