{"id":4814,"date":"2022-11-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:20:11","slug":"minor-super-villain-203-blackbeard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 203: BLACKBEARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 016, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I keep saying that space pirates are too thick on the ground to include every one despite my inclinations but Blackbeard here overruled me on several fronts, including:<\/p>\n

-Overall look: that’s basically a perfect look for a futuristic pirate (it’s not obvious from this image but I reckon that he’s shirtless under the coat, btw). Maybe swap the beret out for a more traditional hat but that would be the only thing I’d change.<\/p>\n

-Name: can’t go wrong with a classic.<\/p>\n

-Henchmen:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Blackbeard’s crew are the Outlaws of Jupiter, and their names are things like One-Arm Ganz, Patch-Eye Tork and Half-Face McGurk. And Gilene, of course, who seems not to have suffered any sort of nickname-worthy injury.<\/p>\n

It’s all great stuff, even though Blackbeard’s only attempted crime – hijack a shipment of ray guns – is foiled immediately by the Space Legion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 016, 1941) I keep saying that space pirates are too thick on the ground to include every one despite my inclinations but Blackbeard here overruled me on several fronts, including: -Overall look: that’s basically a perfect look for a futuristic pirate (it’s not obvious from this image but I reckon that he’s shirtless […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2331,16,935,36,462,23,56,1742,547,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-blackbeard","category-costumes","category-crack-comics","category-good-henchmen","category-great-costumes","category-minor-super-villain","category-quality-comics","category-rock-braddon-of-the-space-legion","category-space-pirate","category-villains-of-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814","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=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}