{"id":4361,"date":"2022-07-13T11:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4361"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:35:06","slug":"minor-super-villain-070-the-tiger-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4361","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 070: THE TIGER-MEN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Adventure Comics 049, 1940) <\/p>\n

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The Tiger-Men are… contextually villains, I guess, in that they do arson and murder and are opposed by hero Steve Conrad.<\/p>\n

They are ALSO part of a pattern that emerges if you read a lot of old comics that take place in <\/span>international locales: the hero rocks up and helps solve a problem between colonizers and the native population and the narrative frames what are usually pretty reasonable demands by the latter as rank villainy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the case of the Tiger-Men, their whole deal is that they <\/span>are Indians who would please like their land back, if the English plantation owners could be bothered to leave (great violence is meted out to them for this).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Adventure Comics 049, 1940)  The Tiger-Men are… contextually villains, I guess, in that they do arson and murder and are opposed by hero Steve Conrad. They are ALSO part of a pattern that emerges if you read a lot of old comics that take place in international locales: the hero rocks up and helps solve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,284,271,17,13,23,411,7,2207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-adventure-comics","category-colonialism","category-dc-comics","category-group","category-minor-super-villain","category-steve-conrad","category-the","category-tiger-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361","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=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4361\/revisions\/4362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}