{"id":4624,"date":"2023-08-14T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:45:21","slug":"minor-super-villain-326-blackjack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4624","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 326: BLACKJACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Human Torch v1 004, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhP2vEJ13WqCAIzfOITYqDkfoA80RGtwZEho54CcoW8qDtW8okhmmAl8TYyXQQB-vw7Ab-8WIT3Wq-A5JC-PXoZ1Kx9zca1zVhL3rjudGmfD2Mo9f4otDQIy39rmUd_q8amcg_P5r0P3qxokPQy6t5vqEJCCYY3vVn0nRlR58Ix-YZUOrTSNuizHyFTwbd3\/w640-h600\/326%20blackjack%20huan%20torch%204%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"945\" data-original-width=\"1007\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhP2vEJ13WqCAIzfOITYqDkfoA80RGtwZEho54CcoW8qDtW8okhmmAl8TYyXQQB-vw7Ab-8WIT3Wq-A5JC-PXoZ1Kx9zca1zVhL3rjudGmfD2Mo9f4otDQIy39rmUd_q8amcg_P5r0P3qxokPQy6t5vqEJCCYY3vVn0nRlR58Ix-YZUOrTSNuizHyFTwbd3\/w640-h600\/326%20blackjack%20huan%20torch%204%201941.JPG\" title=\"blackjack\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Blackjack is your regular style gang boss who is operating at a scale sufficient to be considered super-villainous: he has an ocean liner and a private island equipped with various anti-Human Torch measures, including a fleet of nitrogen bomb-dropping bombers, all in service to one of my personal favourite supercrime setups: the escape ring (which of course involves paying a portion of your take to a third party in order to be spirited away from the reach of the authorities).<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for Blackjack the Human Torch has been a cop for a while now and he is gunned (well, fire-handed) dpwn while trying to escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Human Torch v1 004, 1941) Blackjack is your regular style gang boss who is operating at a scale sufficient to be considered super-villainous: he has an ocean liner and a private island equipped with various anti-Human Torch measures, including a fleet of nitrogen bomb-dropping bombers, all in service to one of my personal favourite supercrime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2287,44,2286,47,93,24,23,470],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-blackjack","category-dead","category-escape-ring","category-gang-boss","category-human-torch","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-toro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624","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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4625,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/4625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}