{"id":5035,"date":"2024-02-21T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:27:35","slug":"minor-super-villain-456-king-bascom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 456: KING BASCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Mystic Comics v1 001, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0bqlWD3ByhDP1KV_TS7vLNtJVfT2Z_dY3hQvisaHwpXrFcrosSvs5x_IwD-5U72gYiK8ISEMOa0kGWUCZSzm1FlzguyHpMWuywyPgJWFCfNlQ9-OIWEwvhnf8BNqDdHJcoAk14B2xmQOdGv1M3-JhZGCxaqtBT1jSmu69EbyVHyoFaqZ0VZRZoWhW9wRZ\/w640-h232\/456a%20king%20bascom%20mystic%20001%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"456\" data-original-width=\"1257\" height=\"232\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi0bqlWD3ByhDP1KV_TS7vLNtJVfT2Z_dY3hQvisaHwpXrFcrosSvs5x_IwD-5U72gYiK8ISEMOa0kGWUCZSzm1FlzguyHpMWuywyPgJWFCfNlQ9-OIWEwvhnf8BNqDdHJcoAk14B2xmQOdGv1M3-JhZGCxaqtBT1jSmu69EbyVHyoFaqZ0VZRZoWhW9wRZ\/w640-h232\/456a%20king%20bascom%20mystic%20001%201940.JPG\" title=\"king bascom\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>King Bascom, the first foe faced by Dynamic Man, is nothing more than a grubby little capitalist pig. I almost forgot to write him and his land-grab scheme up due to disinterest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjHg-5vHybf8fRLSmuzZz43j7dMWM4zSG8KIyXvWMcokYeeVDpSm25e25CqXwMdGfuFBfrwah55WrcpN4l5Zhvgr5EJOvH3Wjbg11UO83HFCNDQvCZ1GFFfdQg6ibKzOFFRFsJIi08b7LZe0WphpcpvCE_WZsFKBI6zOZRTKv1hFjtqPnzWZ2bLXCU0i1Zc\/w640-h442\/456b%20king%20bascom%20mystic%20001%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"1304\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjHg-5vHybf8fRLSmuzZz43j7dMWM4zSG8KIyXvWMcokYeeVDpSm25e25CqXwMdGfuFBfrwah55WrcpN4l5Zhvgr5EJOvH3Wjbg11UO83HFCNDQvCZ1GFFfdQg6ibKzOFFRFsJIi08b7LZe0WphpcpvCE_WZsFKBI6zOZRTKv1hFjtqPnzWZ2bLXCU0i1Zc\/w640-h442\/456b%20king%20bascom%20mystic%20001%201940.JPG\" title=\"king bascom\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Trouble is, while King Bascom is utterly uninteresting he is cocooned in a dense shell of interesting things: his land grab is aided by a drought that he himself is causing using a rain-prevention machine, he has anti-Dymanic Man weaponry and a deathtrap that involves both a descending ceiling and a flood of liquid nitrogen, he&#8217;s a traitor and a scumbag and a sneering pompous ass and yet I can&#8217;t bring myself to care about him enough to finish writing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Mystic Comics v1 001, 1940) King Bascom, the first foe faced by Dynamic Man, is nothing more than a grubby little capitalist pig. I almost forgot to write him and his land-grab scheme up due to disinterest. Trouble is, while King Bascom is utterly uninteresting he is cocooned in a dense shell of interesting things: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,61,136,1095,2438,1366,24,23,433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-capitalism","category-disaster-causer","category-dynamic-man","category-king-bascom","category-land-grab","category-marvel-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}