{"id":4220,"date":"2023-11-17T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4220"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:30:43","slug":"minor-super-villain-376-the-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4220","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 376: THE SHADOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 064, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjWp0LnMOdYTQAWfhlvkWEt5V-jsZLwuwmBiycdz8r7IszIUPU1k60a91h4Rzl6pevZxQ_lx0YXvH8r4gd-r_zjrWNtMsWMh7OwvHgf-mKbNhKBCTG5iD6zrShAmSSh5kX3RusXmnUyTembbGm6nCcNdUxpl6LqHchf-IQd8jk1oEBfmizJIvGS3OrYv70X\/w640-h454\/376%20the%20shadow%20more%20fun%20064%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"924\" data-original-width=\"1303\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjWp0LnMOdYTQAWfhlvkWEt5V-jsZLwuwmBiycdz8r7IszIUPU1k60a91h4Rzl6pevZxQ_lx0YXvH8r4gd-r_zjrWNtMsWMh7OwvHgf-mKbNhKBCTG5iD6zrShAmSSh5kX3RusXmnUyTembbGm6nCcNdUxpl6LqHchf-IQd8jk1oEBfmizJIvGS3OrYv70X\/w640-h454\/376%20the%20shadow%20more%20fun%20064%201941.JPG\" title=\"the shadow\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Shadow is in reality the vengeful ghost of Elmer Watson, a bumped-off witness in a big corruption case. Slightly more reasonable reason for revenge than some murderous ghosts, certainly, but Watson&#8217;s vengeance eventually becomes so all-consuming that he attempts to derail an entire passenger train to get at one target and he ends up banished to whatever nether realm the Spectre sends bad ghosts to.<\/p>\n<p>This is two Vengeance Ghosts in a row for the Spectre! Is that all he is going to face now? No, I checked, it&#8217;s not. Close call though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 064, 1941) The Shadow is in reality the vengeful ghost of Elmer Watson, a bumped-off witness in a big corruption case. Slightly more reasonable reason for revenge than some murderous ghosts, certainly, but Watson&#8217;s vengeance eventually becomes so all-consuming that he attempts to derail an entire passenger train to get at one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,44,23,20,1964,586,7,884],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-shadow","category-spectre","category-the","category-undead-ghost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220","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=4220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4221,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4220\/revisions\/4221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}