{"id":4866,"date":"2024-02-09T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:21:44","slug":"minor-super-villain-447-the-manx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4866","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 447: THE MANX"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Mystery Men Comics 026, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It’s the Manx! Our second catsuit-clad cat-themed villain after the Cat’s Paw<\/a>! This fella doesn’t share too much about himself but seems to be a bit of a criminal opportunist – here he’s attempting to steal a pistol used in a 25 year-old murder so that he can blackmail the murderer, now a wealthy and successful man. <\/i>Given his sneaky climbing style of getting about I’d wager that he’s usually some sort of burglar. A cat burglar, natch.<\/p>\n

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Mustn’t forget to note his themed weapon: a cat’s claw mounted on his wrist that he uses to slash up his foes in a surprisingly gory fashion. Also: no tail, just like a real manx!<\/p>\n

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Ultimately, the Manx seems to have the wrong ratio of sneaking around vs committing horrific violence going on, particularly once he’s aware that he’s facing a super-powered foe in the Green Mask. With a little more creeping and a little less clawing he might have gotten away with some swag rather than being caught by an oaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Mystery Men Comics 026, 1941) It’s the Manx! Our second catsuit-clad cat-themed villain after the Cat’s Paw! This fella doesn’t share too much about himself but seems to be a bit of a criminal opportunist – here he’s attempting to steal a pistol used in a 25 year-old murder so that he can blackmail the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,496,51,3,492,2358,23,20,7,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-costumes","category-domino-the-miracle-boy","category-extortionist","category-fox-features","category-green-mask","category-manx","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-the","category-themed-weaponry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","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=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}