{"id":4959,"date":"2022-08-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:24:54","slug":"minor-super-villain-137-the-shade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 137: THE SHADE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">&nbsp;(Action v1 043, 1941)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiugzIsJ-HjlKq9HxELj1kI8HzL-glBPPhdBONJ759LLnTG1874KUoxpddTHJcE5hoLXew3th0wrWpZ1EHBXV5dvZ7cX858dum_c1wEItZ1JMTu3Jb9_2uHCA9QF_NbOrrkei9rg7pyq4WEp5090WsZG-JseV7mc-so2BsQaClokOoZ7pgZGOCT9anRrg\/s673\/116.%20the%20Shade%20action%2043.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"460\" data-original-width=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiugzIsJ-HjlKq9HxELj1kI8HzL-glBPPhdBONJ759LLnTG1874KUoxpddTHJcE5hoLXew3th0wrWpZ1EHBXV5dvZ7cX858dum_c1wEItZ1JMTu3Jb9_2uHCA9QF_NbOrrkei9rg7pyq4WEp5090WsZG-JseV7mc-so2BsQaClokOoZ7pgZGOCT9anRrg\/s16000\/116.%20the%20Shade%20action%2043.JPG\" title=\"the Shade\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">Vigilante&#8217;s first super-foe has the misfortune to share his name with a certain Flash villain beloved of James Robinson, so it&#8217;s just as well that he&#8217;s nothing more than a gang boss who uses stage illusions to conceal his real identity because he is never seeing the light of day again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit\">He did manage to make a second appearance in the Golden Age, so at least there&#8217;s that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;(Action v1 043, 1941) Vigilante&#8217;s first super-foe has the misfortune to share his name with a certain Flash villain beloved of James Robinson, so it&#8217;s just as well that he&#8217;s nothing more than a gang boss who uses stage illusions to conceal his real identity because he is never seeing the light of day again. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30,17,47,23,28,2405,7,723],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-action-comics","category-dc-comics","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-shade","category-the","category-vigilante"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}