{"id":4695,"date":"2025-07-03T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4695"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:51:22","slug":"minor-super-villain-816-the-mastermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4695","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 816: THE MASTERMIND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Spirit, &#8220;the Mastermind Strikes&#8221;, 6 October, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhiNpavKhqpHqyiF7M1AzPl-bb_tPASLLrDAfFXRuO67LCKQNQzChRk0__FTQVWRTufe65f-iQc3BjqisMltKDdJzHRNimIKKdvoqeIZUymIyUENb4obATH-ulwhb4FQnw52DocahfjgXczVdIZF1ibnNcqSowZcRB5G3fw2Clh3sJ6H52KJF3ztwZ10ymA\/w640-h294\/816A%20the%20mastermind%20spirit%201940.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"691\" data-original-width=\"1504\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhiNpavKhqpHqyiF7M1AzPl-bb_tPASLLrDAfFXRuO67LCKQNQzChRk0__FTQVWRTufe65f-iQc3BjqisMltKDdJzHRNimIKKdvoqeIZUymIyUENb4obATH-ulwhb4FQnw52DocahfjgXczVdIZF1ibnNcqSowZcRB5G3fw2Clh3sJ6H52KJF3ztwZ10ymA\/w640-h294\/816A%20the%20mastermind%20spirit%201940.jpg\" title=\"the mastermind\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjVXgdDt7z8IqIEGVbFUKYx36nCmyOupE4wwhExoIFYJMy1qzRnp9OZlUtyxRzmBFMUeBW4QO7E6mC1lM9f_KUny22v3tUzDGq0pPywemuUiZjhS8dPrCM_rLibPvBNqTPsY4Qb9w2qCyyQRH0Nzz-3LXR21VZQey6nvG2_iEPnknxPBqBrb9Ckyl35VVgb\/w640-h590\/816b%20the%20mastermind%20spirit%201940.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1399\" data-original-width=\"1515\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjVXgdDt7z8IqIEGVbFUKYx36nCmyOupE4wwhExoIFYJMy1qzRnp9OZlUtyxRzmBFMUeBW4QO7E6mC1lM9f_KUny22v3tUzDGq0pPywemuUiZjhS8dPrCM_rLibPvBNqTPsY4Qb9w2qCyyQRH0Nzz-3LXR21VZQey6nvG2_iEPnknxPBqBrb9Ckyl35VVgb\/w640-h590\/816b%20the%20mastermind%20spirit%201940.jpg\" title=\"the mastermind\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Mastermind is really Joel Kenner, a mayoral candidate who tries to get his Tough on Crime campaign a boost by murdering both of his campaign managers and blaming the deaths on the Spirit. This ends poorly for Kenner, who ends up stabbing himself with his own knife like a complete dolt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Spirit, &#8220;the Mastermind Strikes&#8221;, 6 October, 1940) The Mastermind is really Joel Kenner, a mayoral candidate who tries to get his Tough on Crime campaign a boost by murdering both of his campaign managers and blaming the deaths on the Spirit. This ends poorly for Kenner, who ends up stabbing himself with his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,44,474,23,20,690,912,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-dead","category-mastermind","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-register-and-tribune-syndicate","category-spirit","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","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=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}