{"id":4250,"date":"2024-02-17T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:32:02","slug":"minor-super-villain-453-professor-maluski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4250","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 453: PROFESSOR MALUSKI"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Mystic Comics v1 001, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Professor Maluski is the first foe faced by the Blue Blaze after his hibernative period and while he has a lot of cool stuff (huge underground base full of crazy machines, gangster henchmen, a weird gem that flies under its own power and drags its target along in a tractor beam, etc) the real reason that he is getting his own entry rather than being tossed in the next Mad Science Round-Up is the same reason that the Blue Blaze was woken up by a couple of grave robbers: Professor Maluski is making science zombies.<\/p>\n

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And not just any science zombies! This is the only full-length view we get of any of them but it appears that they are in fact the upper thirds of human corpses, floating around on columns of light. Probably. It’s a wild and eerie visual and a real shame that it’s not highlighted more.<\/p>\n

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Professor Maluski of course learns too late that you gotta build in a few more safeguards when constructing an army of the undead, as his control unit is smashed in a fight with the Blue Blaze and he is killed in the subsequent zombie rampage. I could take or leave the professor himself, but his science zombie tech is so neat that I demand that it be BRUNG BACK<\/b> by some enterprising young villain – we’re overdue for a take on urban exploration that involves old super-villain lairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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