{"id":4317,"date":"2023-02-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4317"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:33:30","slug":"minor-super-villain-236-the-snow-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4317","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 236: THE SNOW-KING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Flash Comics v1 005, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgobF65eWvUxadvSK_rUXgcSV-P9bdI3moByE9HLunuNHBBd9gJziU9XgC9QWkgpaZaUB46vI_-25mbMmTt9HpR03mhd5Rf9haO0p9RfSEwFJbQnoAtIN5D4TqjxSW0J_gLdhAY5vsGUmvgkazPLli2Io08CLLMj0EdaRkNb7DWt8ptfYNqy2NSQMqwBg\/w640-h300\/236.%20the%20snow-king%20flash%20005,%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"473\" data-original-width=\"1008\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgobF65eWvUxadvSK_rUXgcSV-P9bdI3moByE9HLunuNHBBd9gJziU9XgC9QWkgpaZaUB46vI_-25mbMmTt9HpR03mhd5Rf9haO0p9RfSEwFJbQnoAtIN5D4TqjxSW0J_gLdhAY5vsGUmvgkazPLli2Io08CLLMj0EdaRkNb7DWt8ptfYNqy2NSQMqwBg\/w640-h300\/236.%20the%20snow-king%20flash%20005,%201940.JPG\" title=\"the snow-king\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A simple concept, but an endearing one: the Snow-King is a famous spy who only works during the winter, hence the name. He&#8217;s possibly French (at least, he says &#8220;au revoir&#8221; a lot) and definitely cocky &#8211; he is so sure of success pulls the classic move of calling up the authorities to warn them of his next escapade.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, crack government agent Cliff Cornwall is brought in on the case and works out just why the Snow-King is a cold-weather spy: he relies on the central heating units of the buildings he burgles to disperse sleeping gas throughout them. That solved, he is quickly caught.<\/p>\n<p>Love an arrogantly confident villain; love a suit accessorized with a cape; love the Snow-King. Should be <b>BRUNG BACK<\/b> as a legacy spy some day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Flash Comics v1 005, 1940) A simple concept, but an endearing one: the Snow-King is a famous spy who only works during the winter, hence the name. He&#8217;s possibly French (at least, he says &#8220;au revoir&#8221; a lot) and definitely cocky &#8211; he is so sure of success pulls the classic move of calling up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,984,16,17,104,23,307,2193,129,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bring-em-back","category-cliff-cornwall","category-costumes","category-dc-comics","category-flash-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-police-taunter","category-snow-king","category-spy","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317","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=4317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4317\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}