{"id":4257,"date":"2022-06-08T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:32:25","slug":"minor-super-villain-027-skull-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 027: SKULL-FACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Detective v1 032, 1939)<\/p>\n

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Skull-Face is a villain I love. He looks, predictably, like a guy with a skull-face, yet he runs a “beauty cult” which might just be a very intense spa? Whatever it is, he steals all of his clients’\/ congregants’ money and then kills them with a special drug that makes them drown themselves\/ have heart attacks. And he’s very proud of his villainy, which I love. Other salient Skull-Face features:<\/p>\n

-caveman butler named Sam<\/p>\n

-underground, partially-flooded castle in Maine<\/p>\n

-leaves tiny ivory skull as a calling card at the scene of his victims’ deaths, thus undermining his own careful planning of natural-seeming causes<\/p>\n

-hunted by the swimsuit-clad sister of one of his victims<\/p>\n

-despite living in a partially-flooded castle, cannot swim and thus drowns at the end of the story<\/p>\n

Just a really good weirdo villain who they should BRING BACK<\/b>.<\/p>\n

EDIT TO ADD: Hadn’t really thought about what role Skull-Face would fill in the modern DCU but upon 5 minutes reflection you could absolutely make him the head of a beauty product Multi-Level Marketing scheme and keep everything else the same. <\/p>\n

SECOND EDIT:<\/p>\n

SKULL SCORE: 3\/5 Pretty skully but also unsettlingly fleshy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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