{"id":5073,"date":"2022-08-27T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5073"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:29:05","slug":"minor-super-villain-135-the-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5073","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 135: THE PURPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Action Comics v1 040, 1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiLr0sa4DZ0VojbbfldMVKxY0Svfe2ix44nUvSpKdzjfH1bFQ3lpDQ-ihzpMLkRxeUfjwrsNYi1dgr5qywS9quYcoUPEw6iNrjFGAZw_2W9G2Azc-AJrjamyRojsIagIJW0l8oLwIv6a6A_CZycF9ZL-KZOpfYz0Up3Me9hiHO8IANLfnhrn1W-N1B36Q\/s16000\/114.%20The%20Purple.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"325\" data-original-width=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiLr0sa4DZ0VojbbfldMVKxY0Svfe2ix44nUvSpKdzjfH1bFQ3lpDQ-ihzpMLkRxeUfjwrsNYi1dgr5qywS9quYcoUPEw6iNrjFGAZw_2W9G2Azc-AJrjamyRojsIagIJW0l8oLwIv6a6A_CZycF9ZL-KZOpfYz0Up3Me9hiHO8IANLfnhrn1W-N1B36Q\/s16000\/114.%20The%20Purple.JPG\" title=\"the Purple\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">Yet another foreign agent looking to weaken America, the Purple does so by forming what is supposedly a patriotic society but in reality is a collection of fervent dupes that can be aimed at whatever target he wishes. Mr America steps in and lays out the truth for the Purple Gang but I fear for the future of a community filled with that many dim bulbs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\">As always, massive appreciation for a villain who dresses their henchmen in basically the same costume as them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Action Comics v1 040, 1941) Yet another foreign agent looking to weaken America, the Purple does so by forming what is supposedly a patriotic society but in reality is a collection of fervent dupes that can be aimed at whatever target he wishes. Mr America steps in and lays out the truth for the Purple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30,156,17,2446,36,23,704,2445,129,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-action-comics","category-crypto-fascist","category-dc-comics","category-fake-patriot","category-good-henchmen","category-minor-super-villain","category-mr-america","category-purple","category-spy","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073","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=5073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5073\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}