{"id":4657,"date":"2023-12-18T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:49:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:49:59","slug":"minor-super-villain-400-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4657","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 400: THE HOOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 072, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghQ2Ib8fuL1ZgZ0R7gnks5fdHaeKkaMcSIKMLDMKxsymnI0kpYyX8oTWl7yEW2K4TzUN7ImNxMgq6hDn30VTzVOuEGh9krYn5S2HPKvUndPnoo9qfCFLjn7sTlnQtLNnhwUFoF084-GXedEP2gIi9QhD8Mk7PTt_03bO5br5F716oud0l1kLbJfgg3dxnE\/w640-h544\/400a%20the%20hook%20more%20fun%20072,%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"611\" data-original-width=\"718\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEghQ2Ib8fuL1ZgZ0R7gnks5fdHaeKkaMcSIKMLDMKxsymnI0kpYyX8oTWl7yEW2K4TzUN7ImNxMgq6hDn30VTzVOuEGh9krYn5S2HPKvUndPnoo9qfCFLjn7sTlnQtLNnhwUFoF084-GXedEP2gIi9QhD8Mk7PTt_03bO5br5F716oud0l1kLbJfgg3dxnE\/w640-h544\/400a%20the%20hook%20more%20fun%20072,%201941.JPG\" title=\"the hook\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Hook is in reality cannery cwner Rand Greer, who has a lucrative sideline in smuggling jewels inside of frozen fish (and a less lucrative hobby of murdering FBI agents).<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhZ55Qr1zUicCFPCjiAUn-4HTPlw0H2uSo0P9L2QzG3OptVrSBtzZ-qM4_GSv345psOw_4f-B82zBl6gqdyr2OBJtPYY4SiEYeBu2QK5QBxF7Po34_gTAeJYzMXsdPjSOfaOTfc7NKN2QOLKrgKoXxjqnMrWX3eC_hHi2DJ1ka5WLfNn8X0elpJPWuM6clb\/w640-h304\/400b%20the%20hook%20more%20fun%20072,%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"611\" data-original-width=\"1286\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhZ55Qr1zUicCFPCjiAUn-4HTPlw0H2uSo0P9L2QzG3OptVrSBtzZ-qM4_GSv345psOw_4f-B82zBl6gqdyr2OBJtPYY4SiEYeBu2QK5QBxF7Po34_gTAeJYzMXsdPjSOfaOTfc7NKN2QOLKrgKoXxjqnMrWX3eC_hHi2DJ1ka5WLfNn8X0elpJPWuM6clb\/w640-h304\/400b%20the%20hook%20more%20fun%20072,%201941.JPG\" title=\"the hook\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>To justify the name, Greer has a hook hand concealed under a fake plastic hand (a pretty good one honestly &#8211; I reckon he&#8217;s holding a fish with it in the first image). There&#8217;s really nothing to this guy and I&#8217;d ordinarily banish him to the ranks of the generic villains if only to have a bit more excitement in entry number 400, but this marks the last appearance of Captain Desmo and I must say I&#8217;ll miss him. Truly he was the best of the pilot\/ adventurers, even if his foes weren&#8217;t always worth writing home about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 072, 1941) The Hook is in reality cannery cwner Rand Greer, who has a lucrative sideline in smuggling jewels inside of frozen fish (and a less lucrative hobby of murdering FBI agents). To justify the name, Greer has a hook hand concealed under a fake plastic hand (a pretty good one honestly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,603,17,2129,23,663,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-captain-desmo","category-dc-comics","category-hook","category-minor-super-villain","category-smuggler","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657","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=4657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4658,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4657\/revisions\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}