{"id":4396,"date":"2025-10-22T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:36:33","slug":"minor-super-villain-866-the-scar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4396","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 866: THE SCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Scar is a fairly ordinary crypto-fascist spy chief – in his first appearance he is leading a gang of incompetents in a plot to blow up a Europe-bound supply ship, for example – but I’ll be danged if he isn’t well suited to his nickname. Most guys named Scar in 1940s comics are maybe<\/i> rocking one big facial scar, while our friend here not only has three, but is missing at least one ear! Whatever happened to this guy, he earned <\/i>that nickname.<\/p>\n

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The Scar’s other remarkable property is that he manages to return to vex super-spy K-51 on three separate occasions<\/i>. In his second appearance, in Wonderworld Comics<\/i> 015, he spearheads a plan to disrupt the burgeoning US air forces by sabotaging the training program and thus discouraging future applicants. K-51 of course foils this plan as well, but not before the Scar scampers off into the undergrowth and escapes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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During the Scar’s final appearance, in Wonderworld Comics<\/i> 016, he is attempting to secure some super-power-inducing powders invented by a Dr Barrow but is unable to do so before Barrow gives them to K-51. When K-51 then decides to use the powders to hunt down the Scar, the spy is so alarmed by the sight of a tiny man wielding a machine gun that he loses all control of his body and topples through a window to his doom. Truly an ignominious end for a slightly better-than-average spy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Wonderworld Comics 014, 1940) The Scar is a fairly ordinary crypto-fascist spy chief – in his first appearance he is leading a gang of incompetents in a plot to blow up a Europe-bound supply ship, for example – but I’ll be danged if he isn’t well suited to his nickname. Most guys named Scar in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,156,44,229,3,898,23,28,345,1816,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-crypto-fascist","category-dead","category-espionage","category-fox-features","category-k-51","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-saboteur","category-scar","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396","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=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4403,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}