{"id":4514,"date":"2022-09-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:16","slug":"minor-super-villain-157-the-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 157: THE WIZARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

(All-Star Comics 003, 1940)<\/p>\n

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This is the kind of super-villain that you see magical heroes taking on a lot more often than other types: the preemptive striker. The likely cause of this is the status of so many magical heroes as the de facto<\/i> head of Earth’s magical security, someone that a bad actor can take out and then be free to act with impunity.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting about this super-villain?<\/b> The thing that appeals to me about this guy, who is primarily a user of illusion magic, is the variety of things he throws at Dr Fate: you got your crazed unicorns, some undead Egyptian warriors, a weird tentacle monster and the “Three Witches of Endor” who themselves cast spells at him. It’s a nice bit of variety!<\/p>\n

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(All-Star Comics 003, 1940) This is the kind of super-villain that you see magical heroes taking on a lot more often than other types: the preemptive striker. The likely cause of this is the status of so many magical heroes as the de facto head of Earth’s magical security, someone that a bad actor can take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,631,17,44,159,131,23,2242,7,63,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-all-star-comics","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-dr-fate","category-magic","category-minor-super-villain","category-preemptive-strike","category-the","category-unofficial-name","category-wizard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","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=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4515,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}