{"id":4516,"date":"2023-06-14T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:17","slug":"minor-super-villain-302-the-fang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4516","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 302: THE FANG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Captain America Comics 006, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhklxmREijaEqkEkIsfCcHX6Vw2PvL4VsFq4xTaNtUu5UOvLInAnw3o1EvAwgNNNVq52qmLkDYgbZj_M7t5-RdpHRp7QM4rDMEw6cMTx2T2rBQ8AoxenpDcVAQqljNaZLzXGis1-6_zhbR23pgLgmE9pwTgJZ79VEZCTyGEZzuu93upNLnijCrBeOAZDQ\/w640-h414\/302%20the%20Fang%20cap%20006%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"905\" data-original-width=\"1400\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhklxmREijaEqkEkIsfCcHX6Vw2PvL4VsFq4xTaNtUu5UOvLInAnw3o1EvAwgNNNVq52qmLkDYgbZj_M7t5-RdpHRp7QM4rDMEw6cMTx2T2rBQ8AoxenpDcVAQqljNaZLzXGis1-6_zhbR23pgLgmE9pwTgJZ79VEZCTyGEZzuu93upNLnijCrBeOAZDQ\/w640-h414\/302%20the%20Fang%20cap%20006%201941.JPG\" title=\"the fang\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Comics history seems to have taken the Fang as a Japanese agent but I&#8217;m <i>pretty<\/i>&nbsp;sure that as written he&#8217;s a Chinese American gang boss who&#8217;s <i>working<\/i>&nbsp;for the Japanese against the Chinese government. Either way, he&#8217;s your basic pulp holdover Asian gang boss with swarms of fanatical hatchet-man and a pronounced lack of humanity down to his namesake fangs. Part of me always wants to skip guys like this but they&#8217;re just as much a part of comic book history as the Big Wheel or the Hypno Hustler.<\/p>\n<div>EDIT: Just noticed that he wasn&#8217;t even actually technically hired by the Japanese! His employer was &#8220;an Asiatic aggressor nation&#8221; &#8211; Marvel seems to be a bit less inclined to name&nbsp; and shame them than they were the Nazis.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Captain America Comics 006, 1941) Comics history seems to have taken the Fang as a Japanese agent but I&#8217;m pretty&nbsp;sure that as written he&#8217;s a Chinese American gang boss who&#8217;s working&nbsp;for the Japanese against the Chinese government. Either way, he&#8217;s your basic pulp holdover Asian gang boss with swarms of fanatical hatchet-man and a pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,537,535,320,1564,47,24,23,20,129,7,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-betty-ross","category-bucky","category-captain-america","category-fang","category-gang-boss","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-spy","category-the","category-yellow-peril"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}