{"id":4550,"date":"2024-11-28T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:42:56","slug":"minor-super-villain-672-kardo-the-monster-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 672: KARDO, THE MONSTER MAKER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Masked Marvel 002, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Kardo, Maker of Monsters, is not quite a super-villain but that’s about the closest thing to what he is and I’m not making up a new category for every guy who doesn’t quite fit the existing ones. What is Kardo then, you ask? A world-famous scientist with the soul of a clown and a compulsion to make creatures and beasties – when we first meet him he is sharing a drink with his friends Dr Melvyn Hunt and Rosalind Rogers and reminiscing about all the trouble he caused the last<\/i> time he made a monster.<\/p>\n

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The fact that Kardo is continuing with his experiments is revealed when he accepts delivery of a human foot, and even then his friends treat him like someone who needs an intervention for hoarding or medium-grade drugs instead of someone treading in realms man was not meant to.<\/p>\n

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Of course the monster wakes up unexpectedly and is hostile to all human life because why wouldn’t it be. Kardo really earns my affection here by being a perfect straight man to the creature’s “he’s right behind me” routine.<\/p>\n

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Kardo rounds out his perfect combination of comedy villain traits by being a complete coward and leaving Hunt to battle the monster on his own.<\/p>\n

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Thus ends the intervention. We love you Kardo and that is why we have impaled your unholy creation on this fence. Now promise that you won’t immediately relapse. *Kardo* is immediately considering how best source human brains*<\/p>\n

God I love this man. He just can’t<\/i> stop making monsters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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