{"id":4852,"date":"2023-07-24T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:21:15","slug":"minor-super-villain-316-the-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4852","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 316: THE VAMPIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 002, 1940)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBzxi1KbgY3alJ7eqyJygUJ_7FX0casbdw-TR0xzpJ1SsS2_XyB6RDrKn0G0pq5fdsMusJ_vbhcA__T3Pu0LimV4I1F21AmGW6b4YEdjB1eAnCC0kalG0yHQL9WMP3bzRn8BEolzXWTWcG_lRiDQxt4Xd184VUIe9qJrYe0sdUgBsylf2SzyKUWZPbit8J\/w640-h640\/316%20the%20vamoire%20daru=ing%20mc%202%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"953\" data-original-width=\"954\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBzxi1KbgY3alJ7eqyJygUJ_7FX0casbdw-TR0xzpJ1SsS2_XyB6RDrKn0G0pq5fdsMusJ_vbhcA__T3Pu0LimV4I1F21AmGW6b4YEdjB1eAnCC0kalG0yHQL9WMP3bzRn8BEolzXWTWcG_lRiDQxt4Xd184VUIe9qJrYe0sdUgBsylf2SzyKUWZPbit8J\/w640-h640\/316%20the%20vamoire%20daru=ing%20mc%202%201940.JPG\" title=\"the vampire\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Vampire has the distinction of appearing in the only Golden Age featuring Mister E, possibly the biggest nonentity in the collection of heroes brought back in <i>The Twelve<\/i>. He&#8217;s whatever: he has a drug that makes your heart explode and his major plot involves trying to get control of an oil company (and marry a woman against her will after killing her father, in case you though he might be a bit sympathetic). He <i>is<\/i> one of the few comic book super-villains to dress like the villains from 1940s super-hero <i>movies<\/i> though, so that&#8217;s something.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgpgEM5Hu3pn6uPB9KcdQZYA6TzO5ww3JVQvLZUvIJgkP9-fv8gRg0rvJEiDQXs3EOlndyF8FDFfUjAhCinaXGThRlVH4xgwM7WOomdz8ILiyVAWwt2ONZRi7xWob3pfg7luof23IktEtmVkn3vIldzEFyOhTjrNp3vwQ1rTQEPjQjz7O4FNqvEAa98vMjb\/w640-h316\/316a%20the%20vamoire%20daru=ing%20mc%202%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"474\" data-original-width=\"959\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgpgEM5Hu3pn6uPB9KcdQZYA6TzO5ww3JVQvLZUvIJgkP9-fv8gRg0rvJEiDQXs3EOlndyF8FDFfUjAhCinaXGThRlVH4xgwM7WOomdz8ILiyVAWwt2ONZRi7xWob3pfg7luof23IktEtmVkn3vIldzEFyOhTjrNp3vwQ1rTQEPjQjz7O4FNqvEAa98vMjb\/w640-h316\/316a%20the%20vamoire%20daru=ing%20mc%202%201940.JPG\" title=\"the vampire\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Probably the most interesting thing about the Vampire is the fact that like so many features in <i>Daring Mystery Comics<\/i> Mister E was a one-off, which means that <i>he is still at large to this day<\/i>. Fun! <b>BRING BACK<\/b> this very very old man and his old machinations! Mister E has retired &#8211; who can save us from the Vampire?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daring Mystery Comics 002, 1940)&nbsp; The Vampire has the distinction of appearing in the only Golden Age featuring Mister E, possibly the biggest nonentity in the collection of heroes brought back in The Twelve. He&#8217;s whatever: he has a drug that makes your heart explode and his major plot involves trying to get control of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,61,70,51,24,23,2349,20,7,2350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-bring-em-back","category-capitalism","category-creep","category-extortionist","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-mister-e","category-murderer","category-the","category-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852","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=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}