{"id":5085,"date":"2024-01-14T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5085"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:30:08","slug":"minor-super-villain-423-the-hawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 423: THE HAWK"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Keen Detective Funnies v2 008, 1939)<\/p>\n

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There’s no bones about it: the Hawk looks like a guy who has a pretty extensive model train setup down in the basement. And he may just! But he’s also a master thief who stashes his loot inside an active Mexican volcano. But the volcano has a tram running up the side, so perhaps his inner train enthusiast is expressing itself in different ways.<\/p>\n

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As always: you live by the volcano lair; you die by the volcano lair.<\/p>\n

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Much more interesting than the Hawk is his foe, the Masked Marvel, a mysterious man with generic mental powers (sense the presence of evil, eg) and enhanced physical traits (walk unshielded into an active volcano; hold a steel cable at sufficient tension that an airplane can land, etc), as well as a surprisingly useful ability to project a red shadow. There’s just something about this grim dude with a receding hairline, unremarkable costume and three shlubby assistants that really speaks to me. Lucky for me he’s one of Centaur’s longer-running features, hey?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Keen Detective Funnies v2 008, 1939) There’s no bones about it: the Hawk looks like a guy who has a pretty extensive model train setup down in the basement. And he may just! But he’s also a master thief who stashes his loot inside an active Mexican volcano. But the volcano has a tram running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,144,44,47,238,1505,23,7,26,874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-centaur","category-dead","category-gang-boss","category-hawk","category-masked-marvel","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-thief","category-volcano-lair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","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=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5086,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}