{"id":4186,"date":"2023-07-19T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:28:22","slug":"minor-super-hero-037-the-phantom-bullet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4186","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO 037: THE PHANTOM BULLET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 002, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjG0XgPcmD5de9KsvXW5pICoZzYyybfyv1JTEJV7SHQhR4Z5ISIdiFvA15_c6UmeweVMHkbM8Z820MmL9EgLAIcWnhGXLUnLINi7iPcfjKA7qlp76KPQY6jfgsfSDgXT6JhPa7FrzvJTmh-0v8WoU_RciPW2Vj1wrPT8AVH6HYhjd7oSUcY6nSxmh1-sRLT\/w640-h482\/Phantom%20Bullet%20-%20Daring%20Mystery%20Comics%20002.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"725\" data-original-width=\"963\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjG0XgPcmD5de9KsvXW5pICoZzYyybfyv1JTEJV7SHQhR4Z5ISIdiFvA15_c6UmeweVMHkbM8Z820MmL9EgLAIcWnhGXLUnLINi7iPcfjKA7qlp76KPQY6jfgsfSDgXT6JhPa7FrzvJTmh-0v8WoU_RciPW2Vj1wrPT8AVH6HYhjd7oSUcY6nSxmh1-sRLT\/w640-h482\/Phantom%20Bullet%20-%20Daring%20Mystery%20Comics%20002.JPG\" title=\"the phantom bullet\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of people on the internet who like to opine on the morality of bat-themed rich-guy vigilantism, but I gotta tell you that it could have been a whole lot worse. Case in point, the Phantom Bullet, a rich guy who gets ahold of an untraceable ice pellet gun and immediately thinks &#8220;what this city needs is a whole lot more extra-judicial killings.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But instead of becoming an unstoppable media juggernaut, the Phantom Bullet made just one Golden Age appearance (like so many of his <i>Daring<\/i> compatriots) and returned only once, seventy years later, to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 002, 1940) There&#8217;s a lot of people on the internet who like to opine on the morality of bat-themed rich-guy vigilantism, but I gotta tell you that it could have been a whole lot worse. Case in point, the Phantom Bullet, a rich guy who gets ahold of an untraceable ice pellet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44,24,4,2160,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-dead","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-hero","category-phantom-bullet","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","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=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}