{"id":4579,"date":"2023-12-14T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:43:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-396-the-cipher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 396: THE CIPHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 071, 1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj-XenD2Pyo4OK0NmVyrofAYC5u7C9VRuomLHPUCFWzxE16dNFePriZnplu2Wczlz1duZkmnQzx4AKcMwWWZlEzDECxmXDJeIMLcel-Yyj18LWyCOZYEuqPE_GRSCBWiLRW0VgHbc4t9xAdIE1JzP4pOq85fxFltqlBGM1IPiIiOggdwkgLl6MS01RUU6YV\/w640-h300\/396%20the%20CIpher%20more%20fun%20071,%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"619\" data-original-width=\"1320\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj-XenD2Pyo4OK0NmVyrofAYC5u7C9VRuomLHPUCFWzxE16dNFePriZnplu2Wczlz1duZkmnQzx4AKcMwWWZlEzDECxmXDJeIMLcel-Yyj18LWyCOZYEuqPE_GRSCBWiLRW0VgHbc4t9xAdIE1JzP4pOq85fxFltqlBGM1IPiIiOggdwkgLl6MS01RUU6YV\/w640-h300\/396%20the%20CIpher%20more%20fun%20071,%201941.JPG\" title=\"the Cipher\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Cipher is a fairly unremarkable oceangoing spy with a really great name. He attempts to extract some information on winter warfare tactics from a friend of Clip Carson (on behalf of unspecified employers &#8211; somewhat interestingly, the Cipher is explicitly a <i>freelance<\/i> spy) and gets blown up for his efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 071, 1941) The Cipher is a fairly unremarkable oceangoing spy with a really great name. He attempts to extract some information on winter warfare tactics from a friend of Clip Carson (on behalf of unspecified employers &#8211; somewhat interestingly, the Cipher is explicitly a freelance spy) and gets blown up for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2262,162,17,44,534,23,254,129,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-cipher","category-clip-carson","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-mercenary","category-minor-super-villain","category-monocle","category-spy","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","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=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}