{"id":4196,"date":"2024-06-19T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:29:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:29:40","slug":"minor-super-villain-547-the-hooded-terror-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4196","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 547: THE HOODED TERROR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 003, 1939)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkRoyMshz2t1voBUH17L7YUlNzrR1of83NlE8CLw0cLKujTSixztYlObw9ovMlEu3mx_5Ie3C_qYR1xheh6p-AnVWScDhz-XgbEhMjnHGylbxHnycF4pQ3oBp0CdBjcLZbSEdipEN-UgwhcqIgFfBlmxbcRzde8nCFdCtgZ8YLKiCFiCcMr9-lZ3DJx4t8\/w640-h440\/546a%20Hooded%20terror%20smash%20003%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"878\" data-original-width=\"1279\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhkRoyMshz2t1voBUH17L7YUlNzrR1of83NlE8CLw0cLKujTSixztYlObw9ovMlEu3mx_5Ie3C_qYR1xheh6p-AnVWScDhz-XgbEhMjnHGylbxHnycF4pQ3oBp0CdBjcLZbSEdipEN-UgwhcqIgFfBlmxbcRzde8nCFdCtgZ8YLKiCFiCcMr9-lZ3DJx4t8\/w640-h440\/546a%20Hooded%20terror%20smash%20003%201939.JPG\" title=\"the hooded terror\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good name but I&#8217;m afraid that the Hooded Terror is just a stock crypto-fascist European saboteur attempting to destroy the Panama Canal and trap the US fleet in the Pacific in order to set up an invasion of the East Coast. It&#8217;s no great loss to fiction when he gets cold-cocked by G-2 agent Wings Wendall and left behind in a sinking submarine to drown.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjePtwlwLdfHLkQVQe7UXlBQosjv49Q6LAXOB5ip6Nci8l99Axo4zvN_9adEIOej4uU1E4EAB9kvOZAvm6yYYmWPt-6gGRJSLtZXH7610yjWYocAm1Gkpa00TtyZJIoC7LFhPtV4dBCtSWm3xbNzQNLyRyrkJQoHHAIy5GkxYMBZQkilfwWNH0V29YdHKOG\/w588-h640\/546b%20Hooded%20terror%20smash%20003%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"438\" data-original-width=\"402\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjePtwlwLdfHLkQVQe7UXlBQosjv49Q6LAXOB5ip6Nci8l99Axo4zvN_9adEIOej4uU1E4EAB9kvOZAvm6yYYmWPt-6gGRJSLtZXH7610yjWYocAm1Gkpa00TtyZJIoC7LFhPtV4dBCtSWm3xbNzQNLyRyrkJQoHHAIy5GkxYMBZQkilfwWNH0V29YdHKOG\/w588-h640\/546b%20Hooded%20terror%20smash%20003%201939.JPG\" title=\"the hooded terror\" width=\"588\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Other than some degree of admiration for his ability to use a periscope while wearing a loose cloth mask over his eyes my one positive note about the Hooded Terror is that he had a real commitment to clear labelling. Never has exposition been handled so seamlessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 003, 1939) It&#8217;s a good name but I&#8217;m afraid that the Hooded Terror is just a stock crypto-fascist European saboteur attempting to destroy the Panama Canal and trap the US fleet in the Pacific in order to set up an invasion of the East Coast. It&#8217;s no great loss to fiction when he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,156,44,2161,23,56,345,1747,7,707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-crypto-fascist","category-dead","category-hooded-terror","category-minor-super-villain","category-quality-comics","category-saboteur","category-submarine-captain","category-the","category-wings-wendall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}