{"id":5003,"date":"2025-05-19T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5003"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:26:27","slug":"minor-super-villain-791-cats-romelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5003","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 791: CATS ROMELT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Lightning Comics 004, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1dHUW96JucmSYxGbL9qC8cq4lJKxN91gDzl6zhE_XEubIl2cw9OM_YgcsZG0hNofrzCdN5sPVyT2cwG5-H3ZeHVq9J6f0GATTAufkyxx6kfszLJ7RtzzUEi7r2i4H3bgRkXNFJXgDHtOAUljD6WHldvi5k0bxRaSmFl1oBadjXTNMs_zQZdTT2Ey6sQUi\/w640-h452\/791a%20cats%20romelt%20lightning%20004%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"703\" data-original-width=\"995\" height=\"452\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh1dHUW96JucmSYxGbL9qC8cq4lJKxN91gDzl6zhE_XEubIl2cw9OM_YgcsZG0hNofrzCdN5sPVyT2cwG5-H3ZeHVq9J6f0GATTAufkyxx6kfszLJ7RtzzUEi7r2i4H3bgRkXNFJXgDHtOAUljD6WHldvi5k0bxRaSmFl1oBadjXTNMs_zQZdTT2Ey6sQUi\/w640-h452\/791a%20cats%20romelt%20lightning%20004%201940.JPG\" title=\"cats romelt\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhyw3rW0OQ55XAEu82QBVtWfTFb-sUj3TC77jg4AUsKgwwxtE_QnNpp2rK9NJRaaXkm5yJSQ4vcli5NaQl_11ClXQjRiG5FKA0pPuFf7t_nrarkbQrDe7lH-qMCma8CgHH_SH2mWxjlwT_tJpHS59JEHk6bCD9k5AsmQiqKwsgR_T76gZUoWdCIDU_QwME7\/w640-h458\/791b%20cats%20romelt%20lightning%20004%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"706\" data-original-width=\"985\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhyw3rW0OQ55XAEu82QBVtWfTFb-sUj3TC77jg4AUsKgwwxtE_QnNpp2rK9NJRaaXkm5yJSQ4vcli5NaQl_11ClXQjRiG5FKA0pPuFf7t_nrarkbQrDe7lH-qMCma8CgHH_SH2mWxjlwT_tJpHS59JEHk6bCD9k5AsmQiqKwsgR_T76gZUoWdCIDU_QwME7\/w640-h458\/791b%20cats%20romelt%20lightning%20004%201940.JPG\" title=\"cats romelt\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Though Cats Romelt is the head of a gang of river pirates who organizes a fake warehouse guard union in order to call a general strike and leave the dock warehouses easy pickings, none of this is the reason for his being here. No, it is his sheer bloody-minded commitment to using starved alley cats with poisoned claws as weapons of terror and mass destruction that tipped him over into the category of <i>super<\/i>-villain. It&#8217;s an idea that certainly works better on paper than in practice, but the real question is: is he constantly doing it because his nickname is &#8220;Cats&#8221; or is that his nickname because he breaks out a poison-clawed alley cat as the solution to any problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Lightning Comics 004, 1940) Though Cats Romelt is the head of a gang of river pirates who organizes a fake warehouse guard union in order to call a general strike and leave the dock warehouses easy pickings, none of this is the reason for his being here. No, it is his sheer bloody-minded commitment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,94,2427,2426,256,253,23,2425,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-ace-magazines","category-cats-romelt","category-fake-union","category-flash-lightning","category-lash-lightning","category-minor-super-villain","category-river-pirate","category-themed-deathtraps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003","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=5003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5003\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}