{"id":495,"date":"2022-06-28T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:41:02","slug":"minor-super-villain-060-the-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 060: THE MASK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Action Comics 022, 1940)<\/p>\n

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The Mask is your garden-variety master of disguise, con artist subtype: he assumes the identities of others in order to acquire monies from their banks and businesses. He is distinguished from the rest of his ilk in two ways: firstly in that he is our second villain to employ the aid of the Tigress<\/a> and secondly in that he actually has his face surgically altered to make his impersonations.<\/p>\n

His downfall comes when he assumes the identity of Zatara in order to claim some reward money that the magician had turned down, leading to this:<\/p>\n

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It’s sometimes unclear whether Zatara ever reverses this kind of transformation, so I just go by what’s said and done on-panel. If he turns a crook to stone and says he’s going to come back for them later then he does. Otherwise, there’s a petrified wrongdoer in a field somewhere to this day. All this is to say: Zatara never gives any indication that he’s going to change the Mask back, so I imagine that he served his sentence for fraud and had to reintegrate to society looking like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Action Comics 022, 1940) The Mask is your garden-variety master of disguise, con artist subtype: he assumes the identities of others in order to acquire monies from their banks and businesses. He is distinguished from the rest of his ilk in two ways: firstly in that he is our second villain to employ the aid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,637,17,192,636,450,23,7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-action-comics","category-con-artist","category-dc-comics","category-hero-impersonator","category-mask","category-master-of-disguise","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-zatara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}