{"id":4164,"date":"2026-01-09T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4164"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:26:51","slug":"minor-super-villain-910-herr-gloobels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4164","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 910: HERR GLOOBELS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Herr Gloobels is a mysterious and somewhat gruesome figure who murders a motorcycle messenger in order to get ahold of some troop transport schedules and then murders a second one to get them again after Spy Smasher recovers them from the first theft. He does all of this using his Tornado Gun, a device that seems<\/i> to be a ray gun but which actually fires beams of compressed air that can sink a ship as easily as perforate a hapless guard. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Herr Gloobels’ generally chaotic nature leaves us with a number of questions, the most narratively pressing of which is: is this guy a spy or what? There’s no real talk of the War Lord or any other Axis stand-in and Gloobels seems to be driven by scientific megalomania as much as any desire to advance the cause of world fascism. Maybe he’s just wacky.<\/p>\n

The second question is of course: what’s the deal with Gloobels’ assistant Hugo? Is he a trained gorilla? An ape-man? Something more racist? It’s never specified.<\/p>\n

Thirdly: just why does he look so much like a Basil Wolverton character in that last panel? Don’t get me wrong: it’s a good look! It’s just not quite what he looks like the rest of the time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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After a spirited melee in Gloobels’ lighthouse HQ, Hugo ends up taking a Tornado Gun blast meant for Spy Smasher and is sent to his final reward. This seems to take the wind out of Gloobels’ sails and he surrenders without further incident – a surprising demonstration of affection for a henchman, particularly for a homicidal scientist type like Gloobels. The Tornado Gun is supposedly turned over to the US military for study, but as with all of these captured super-villain weapons they seemingly put their worst men on the job because the Allied forces continued to rely on plain old bullets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Whiz Comics 024, 1941) Herr Gloobels is a mysterious and somewhat gruesome figure who murders a motorcycle messenger in order to get ahold of some troop transport schedules and then murders a second one to get them again after Spy Smasher recovers them from the first theft. He does all of this using his Tornado […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,229,175,2144,23,20,700],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-espionage","category-fawcett-comics","category-herr-gloobels","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-spy-smasher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164","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=4164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4164\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}