{"id":5043,"date":"2022-10-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:27:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:27:48","slug":"minor-super-villain-171-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 171: THE VOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Bulletman 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

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There is a pretty broad swath of the super-villain community (and an even larger cohort of generic costumed villains) who have the common origin of being respectable members of society who need a second identity to head a gang or catburgle or do murders under the guise of.<\/p>\n

The gang leaders tend to stick to a few different styles of dress: there’s the domino mask wearers, the executioners-style hood guys and the more cautious head-to-toe robe wearers. The Voice here is part of a very specific type of these guys who only appear in silhouette – not particularly common, probably because it ends up tying them pretty thoroughly to a specific locale.<\/p>\n

The Voice doesn’t have too much to distinguish him: he’s running for district attorney and making a lot of political hay out of all the crimes being committed by the gang he himself is running. The really <\/i>unusual thing about him is that he and his gang find out Bulletman’s secret identity over the course of the story and then… nothing. They go to jail, with none of the usual mind-wipes, elaborate deceptions or gruesome deaths that usually ensure that those who learn a hero’s secrets do not retain them. Just between 4 and 10 hardened crooks nursing that knowledge as they are taken away by the police. Remarkable stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Bulletman 001, 1940) There is a pretty broad swath of the super-villain community (and an even larger cohort of generic costumed villains) who have the common origin of being respectable members of society who need a second identity to head a gang or catburgle or do murders under the guise of. The gang leaders tend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,342,340,699,175,47,23,1101,7,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-bulletgirl","category-bulletman","category-civic-reformer","category-fawcett-comics","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-secret-identity-seeker","category-the","category-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}