{"id":4232,"date":"2023-12-08T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:31:22","slug":"minor-super-villain-393-the-tentacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4232","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 393: THE TENTACLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 069, 1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg035w8JYg5l2KL8wHWFCdRdxMcfVBr0HgcXxO4bS9h7-nOi6Ibi-SzxDJr2H0Ok2vWR9K8mNvMiChBK33WP-iF4DFTK0yYQbvYDBeN1lPybPq3T3QV4CZ95gfxOBbZVwejO6rATxk893ASQN9NH7qjVo86v6fWBugIfWJQxOGle4nRsR43uBw1W0r3-tT7\/w640-h482\/393%20the%20tentacle%20more%20fun%20069%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"883\" data-original-width=\"1172\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEg035w8JYg5l2KL8wHWFCdRdxMcfVBr0HgcXxO4bS9h7-nOi6Ibi-SzxDJr2H0Ok2vWR9K8mNvMiChBK33WP-iF4DFTK0yYQbvYDBeN1lPybPq3T3QV4CZ95gfxOBbZVwejO6rATxk893ASQN9NH7qjVo86v6fWBugIfWJQxOGle4nRsR43uBw1W0r3-tT7\/w640-h482\/393%20the%20tentacle%20more%20fun%20069%201941.JPG\" title=\"the tentacle\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We don&#8217;t get a lot of backstory on the Tentacle. Presumably he&#8217;s a botanist or at least a gifted amateur horticulturalist, as he has developed a type of plant that strangles folks to death and can be triggered remotely (or on a timer, possibly). He uses this creation to blackmail rich men until he is tracked down by the Spectre and of course meets his end at the fronds of his own creation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 069, 1941) We don&#8217;t get a lot of backstory on the Tentacle. Presumably he&#8217;s a botanist or at least a gifted amateur horticulturalist, as he has developed a type of plant that strangles folks to death and can be triggered remotely (or on a timer, possibly). He uses this creation to blackmail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,44,51,23,20,400,586,2174,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-extortionist","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-plant-monsters","category-spectre","category-tentacle","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","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=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}