{"id":5015,"date":"2022-11-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:26:49","slug":"minor-super-villain-196-the-jester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5015","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 196: THE JESTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 010, 1941)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEisoONqtfwLo4EVjg8CsZyNio3sA4Ni68tuurj1cGeUgGoDYlkNToQa55zg24jUuN8PY_L9oZFw5kPztO7S7suuGP1j5j8cl5gXrRBE8OY3EEZ6uIgDZ_1ziUbUPKYlss7LuI2MLPt05OUM1fljLA_GfGwAvxH4y1apItoRBKVdeSoo4oLALT5DLBNjuw\/w640-h442\/196a.%20the%20jester%20crack%20010%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"731\" data-original-width=\"1060\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEisoONqtfwLo4EVjg8CsZyNio3sA4Ni68tuurj1cGeUgGoDYlkNToQa55zg24jUuN8PY_L9oZFw5kPztO7S7suuGP1j5j8cl5gXrRBE8OY3EEZ6uIgDZ_1ziUbUPKYlss7LuI2MLPt05OUM1fljLA_GfGwAvxH4y1apItoRBKVdeSoo4oLALT5DLBNjuw\/w640-h442\/196a.%20the%20jester%20crack%20010%201941.JPG\" title=\"the Jester\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Jester is your standard costumed thief. He commits a series of daring robberies that would in the normal course of things land him in the slammer at the end of a super-hero&#8217;s fist.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRwAPCDo1DSwyiJt6HkgKmHcHyv3ocxootff5RKfdWTCthv0YCJdbwSCzMceXf_Xt2QR4G0RcbQ99THtlBZOVKZ5uoRGIALB4rxX8kslEFDs0-N74q0XtsUXA1-_963xd1PMtFbGtyixq5wAz_PJj2es6ZyN6dr9pCbbpvHAzA6-HV8sIT9n6biQpnKw\/w640-h410\/196.%20the%20jester%20crack%20010%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"680\" data-original-width=\"1063\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhRwAPCDo1DSwyiJt6HkgKmHcHyv3ocxootff5RKfdWTCthv0YCJdbwSCzMceXf_Xt2QR4G0RcbQ99THtlBZOVKZ5uoRGIALB4rxX8kslEFDs0-N74q0XtsUXA1-_963xd1PMtFbGtyixq5wAz_PJj2es6ZyN6dr9pCbbpvHAzA6-HV8sIT9n6biQpnKw\/w640-h410\/196.%20the%20jester%20crack%20010%201941.JPG\" title=\"the Jester\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But before Madam Fatal, the hero of this particular feature, can get around to the business of stopping the Jester, the man himself shows up, knocks out Fatal&#8217;s civilian guise Richard Stanton and kidnaps his friend Professor Mason. OR DOES HE?<\/p>\n<p>No, he doesn&#8217;t. It turns out that a gang of crooks is framing the real Jester in order to avoid suspicion, but since the Jester is in actuality Professor Mason&#8217;s estranged son Robert, a rare hero-villain teamup ensues, Professor Mason is rescued and the usually absolutist morality of the Golden Age takes a break as the Jester is allowed to leave having fulfilled his filial duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Crack Comics 010, 1941)&nbsp; The Jester is your standard costumed thief. He commits a series of daring robberies that would in the normal course of things land him in the slammer at the end of a super-hero&#8217;s fist. But before Madam Fatal, the hero of this particular feature, can get around to the business of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,935,2429,1010,23,2253,56,7,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-crack-comics","category-jester","category-madam-fatal","category-minor-super-villain","category-not-all-bad","category-quality-comics","category-the","category-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015","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=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}