{"id":4672,"date":"2024-02-05T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:50:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:50:57","slug":"minor-super-villain-444-frau-izan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 444: FRAU IZAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Mystery Men Comics 023, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Our story begins in media res<\/i> as Lieutenant Drake of Naval Intelligence cleans up the goons of Nazi<\/strike> crypto-fascist (they get real close to calling her a Nazi in this one but she works for the Opatseg instead of the Gestapo, so I guess she’s just another Izan) femme fatale spy named Frau Izan.<\/p>\n

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Izan gets away and is subsequently given an injection by sinister Nazi<\/strike> Izan scientist Doktere von Shnyder that turns her into my favourite kind of shrunken person: one with the proportional strength of a regular person. BONUS: they go to the trouble to establish that she made a little teeny dress for herself ahead of time. <\/p>\n

The shrinking treatment, by the way, is supposed to last for two hours but in a surprise power play von Shnyder reveals that it’s permanent and that he’s taking over as head of the regional Opatseg. Just goes to show: you can’t truust a Nazi, even when they have a thin film of plausible deniability.<\/p>\n

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(von Shnyder does get his, never fear)<\/p>\n

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In a surprising turn, Frau Izan is forgiven her espionage activities due to being too small. I suppose it’s a hard-to-replicate defence but there’s going to be hell to pay if this establishes precedent and a lot of people start taking advantage of it using bootleg shrink rays and so forth.<\/p>\n

They tease Frau Izan becoming a regular part of the team (called Miss America for some reason) but she in fact never reappears again – probably they made Miss X take care of her and that’s where she<\/i> is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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