{"id":4528,"date":"2022-05-28T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:29","slug":"minor-super-villain-022-the-tarantula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 022: THE TARANTULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Adventure 040, 1939)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEt1Zgdm2EReQR64F1TYhAPO6BvsYQzypDy2pS5XMiYIDO19OolHXMlxaou8ltDJmN81p_Fgs6pdMW3EQ4ZbVm2Zb5vixG__cyXFkQyKAlfyZMSEme4OCwJmIEGtt9mLzeLh6waRAksNiLhR9BBiLM_GnZ9oKvullCHCRdNAJl7oPkVw0lIww7GfWO9Q\/s16000\/23.%20the%20Tarantula.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"386\" data-original-width=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgEt1Zgdm2EReQR64F1TYhAPO6BvsYQzypDy2pS5XMiYIDO19OolHXMlxaou8ltDJmN81p_Fgs6pdMW3EQ4ZbVm2Zb5vixG__cyXFkQyKAlfyZMSEme4OCwJmIEGtt9mLzeLh6waRAksNiLhR9BBiLM_GnZ9oKvullCHCRdNAJl7oPkVw0lIww7GfWO9Q\/s16000\/23.%20the%20Tarantula.JPG\" title=\"the Tarantula\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;font-size: 14px;white-space: pre-wrap\">Standard masked crook, remarkable only for being the Sandman&#8217;s first foe. Shows up later in one or two crowd scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdriPdPC1ZbMIaIxZzcB4Z-XCqHCYBageweYsQFeCCp1xEbiyYLPzBT7rYQ0KWUprcEfUQc7HnSJE04t75wOx2a10QxI4OvVP6WK0kJeyZAeBa7AngQ076fSO0rodeU54sp4ZeWJg9PLNRC9XqSnf-zWNQxaQz2Vo8GL5tjgpVakB2V5USiy4WBhNiqw\/s16000\/23a.%20dodd.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"305\" data-original-width=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhdriPdPC1ZbMIaIxZzcB4Z-XCqHCYBageweYsQFeCCp1xEbiyYLPzBT7rYQ0KWUprcEfUQc7HnSJE04t75wOx2a10QxI4OvVP6WK0kJeyZAeBa7AngQ076fSO0rodeU54sp4ZeWJg9PLNRC9XqSnf-zWNQxaQz2Vo8GL5tjgpVakB2V5USiy4WBhNiqw\/s16000\/23a.%20dodd.JPG\" title=\"tiny Sandman\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This story is also notable for being the only time Golden Age Wesley Dodds tucks in a little doll version of himself before heading out as Sandman, a charming bit that was later adopted as an ongoing thing in <i>Sandman Mystery Theatre.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adventure 040, 1939) Standard masked crook, remarkable only for being the Sandman&#8217;s first foe. Shows up later in one or two crowd scenes. This story is also notable for being the only time Golden Age Wesley Dodds tucks in a little doll version of himself before heading out as Sandman, a charming bit that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,284,17,54,23,28,539,2217,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-adventure-comics","category-dc-comics","category-kidnapper","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-sandman","category-tarantula","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","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=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}