{"id":417,"date":"2023-09-26T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=417"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:37:58","slug":"minor-super-villain-345-the-white-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 345: THE WHITE ARROW"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Master Comics 008-011, 1940-1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A regular-style Old West outlaw chief with the somewhat lyrical name of Santos Figaro, the White Arrow’s main distinction is that he was a multi-issue rather than one-off foe of Marshal Buck Jones.  <\/p>\n

Jones himself<\/a> is far more interesting than poor Santos Figaro, being a real-life cowboy actor cast as an Old West lawman (probably – I think I’ve mentioned before that the media of the 1930s-40s doesn’t draw a lot of distinction between the Old West and the contemporary West and that sometimes the only way you find out that a series is one or the other is 50 instalments in when the protagonist hops a plane to Chicago). Jones replaced former marshal Bill Crane in Master Comics<\/i> 006 in a sadly lost-to-history adventure that might contain clues as to whether he was the<\/i> Buck Jones or just a<\/i> Buck Jones. <\/p>\n

Regardless, the “Buck Jones, Frontier Marshal” feature closed its doors after the real Buck Jones died in 1942. Given that, it is somewhat ironic that Master Comics<\/i> was one of the books to eventually carry the adventures of Old West cowboy Tom Mix based on the Western actor<\/a> who had died in 1940.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I finally got to read Master Comics <\/i>006, in which Buck Jones takes over for Bill Crane, and it’s almost but not quite as unclear about the time period as the issues I already had access to. Buck Jones is a famous actor moving to what is effectively the past for a bit of a break from modern life and when Crane is wounded he is sworn in as the new marshal. Jones is simultaneously a recognizable celebrity and living in a place with no technology more modern than the steam engine. Baffling!<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Master Comics 008-011, 1940-1941) A regular-style Old West outlaw chief with the somewhat lyrical name of Santos Figaro, the White Arrow’s main distinction is that he was a multi-issue rather than one-off foe of Marshal Buck Jones.   Jones himself is far more interesting than poor Santos Figaro, being a real-life cowboy actor cast as an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,339,553,44,175,47,23,28,7,191,552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bandit","category-buck-jones","category-dead","category-fawcett-comics","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-the","category-villains-of-the-past","category-white-arrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","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=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}