{"id":4975,"date":"2022-06-08T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4975"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:25:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:25:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-026-the-monk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=4975","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 026: THE MONK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Detective v1 031-032, 1939)<\/p>\n

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The only reason this guy’s minor is that Batman shoots him dead in 1939. I know he’s made a few reappearances over the years but mostly they’re retellings of that first story. Also I guess they’re calling him the Mad Monk now? Weird.<\/p>\n

My point is that Batman deserves a vampire nemesis so they should BRING HIM BACK<\/b>.<\/p>\n

ADDENDUM: it’s very strange to me that in Batman: Red Rain<\/i> it’s Dracula who vampires Batman and not the Monk, an established vampiric Bat-villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Detective v1 031-032, 1939) The only reason this guy’s minor is that Batman shoots him dead in 1939. I know he’s made a few reappearances over the years but mostly they’re retellings of that first story. Also I guess they’re calling him the Mad Monk now? Weird. My point is that Batman deserves a vampire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,60,42,17,44,80,23,987,28,7,997,992],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-batman","category-bring-em-back","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-detective-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-monk","category-multiple-appearances","category-the","category-the-reel","category-undead-vampire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975","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=4975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4976,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4975\/revisions\/4976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}