{"id":4315,"date":"2022-10-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:33:29","slug":"minor-super-villain-173-the-hunchback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4315","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 173: THE HUNCHBACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Bulletman 002, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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There are many Hunchbacks, both actual and fake, in the ranks of the minor super-villain, alas. Victor Hugo has much to answer for. This<\/i> Hunchback is a former actor whose back (and presumably mind) was injured in a fall and thereafter resolved to kill all leading men at a particular theatre via dart to the neck.<\/p>\n

The real standout of the story is not<\/i> the Hunchback but rather red herring murder suspect Matt Benson, seen here being a completely unsuspicious witness:<\/p>\n

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And here being careful not to make himself seem like he might have done it:<\/p>\n

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I sincerely think that in all my years of reading this kind of story I have not seen a suspect with less chill. The man could not order a cup of coffee without implying that he had strangled someone for the cash he was using to pay for it.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Bulletman 002, 1941) There are many Hunchbacks, both actual and fake, in the ranks of the minor super-villain, alas. Victor Hugo has much to answer for. This Hunchback is a former actor whose back (and presumably mind) was injured in a fall and thereafter resolved to kill all leading men at a particular theatre via dart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,342,340,175,359,722,82,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bulletgirl","category-bulletman","category-fawcett-comics","category-great-folk","category-hunchback","category-mad-art","category-minor-super-villain","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","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=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}