{"id":4936,"date":"2023-10-03T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:23:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:23:59","slug":"notes-october-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"NOTES – OCTOBER 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The acclimation of a new Dalai Lama<\/a> must have been big headlines in 1941 because not only did Zoro the Mystery Man save him from being kidnapped for ransom… (Master Comics 014, 1941)<\/p>\n

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… but over on Earth-Two, the Three Aces did the same! (Action Comics 032, 1941)<\/p>\n

Great Folk:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wizzar, Father of All Magic, teacher and mentor of El Carim, dead and returned as a spirit who appears “when some great crime against the dead remains unpunished” is that all-too-frequent thing in comics: a cosmic plot-hook-delivering entity used only once and never seen again (Master Comics 015, 1941) <\/p>\n

Also, Wizzar sends El Carim to the planet Zaam to battle the tyrant Rashtala and basically everyone on Zaam has an amazing look: <\/p>\n

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Just great.<\/p>\n

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Grandfather Oyster, the big oyster that eats people when they try to get the little oysters, is a really terrific sea monster concept. Is this the only hostile oyster in comics history? Probably! (Master Comics 017, 1941)<\/p>\n

Memes of Yore: COWARD!<\/p>\n

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Very unsympathetic crowd of Goat-People watching space hero Captain Venture fight a space dragon. (Master Comics 021, 1941)<\/p>\n

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Nobody ever delivers a long monologue on why kicking people is an unmanly way to fight but there are a lot of expressions of distaste, like Spike of the Companions Three is uttering here. (Master Comics 021, 1941)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ripped from the headlines: The acclimation of a new Dalai Lama must have been big headlines in 1941 because not only did Zoro the Mystery Man save him from being kidnapped for ransom… (Master Comics 014, 1941) … but over on Earth-Two, the Three Aces did the same! (Action Comics 032, 1941) Great Folk: Wizzar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,412,677,16,441,175,359,2394,2396,665,2395,477,540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-captain-venture","category-companions-three","category-costumes","category-el-carim","category-fawcett-comics","category-great-folk","category-memes-of-yore-coward","category-memes-of-yore-kicking","category-ripped-from-the-headlines","category-sea-monsters","category-three-aces","category-zoro-the-mystery-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","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=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}