{"id":419,"date":"2022-06-10T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:38:00","slug":"minor-super-villain-039-the-slugger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 039: THE SLUGGER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(More Fun 043, 1939)<\/p>\n

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A common or garden-variety mugger, the Slugger’s technique (sneak up and bash ’em on the head) and the frequency of his attacks lead to a lot of press coverage, starting a city-wide panic (as in our previous entry). In response, the Slugger leans into it, up to and including sending taunting messages to the police, a favourite villainous move of mine. Crime can’t be seen to pay in a comic book, though, so he is eventually hauled in by the Radio Squad.<\/p>\n

The Slugger represents my absolute lowest level baseline version of the super-villain by dint of scale of crime. While I’m sure that there are other super-muggers out there to be discovered, I will be very surprised if I encounter another uncostumed, non-powered one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(More Fun 043, 1939) A common or garden-variety mugger, the Slugger’s technique (sneak up and bash ’em on the head) and the frequency of his attacks lead to a lot of press coverage, starting a city-wide panic (as in our previous entry). In response, the Slugger leans into it, up to and including sending taunting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,17,23,126,554,494,555,235,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-dc-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-more-fun-comics","category-mugger","category-radio-squad","category-slugger","category-super-villain-definition","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}