{"id":509,"date":"2023-10-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=509"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:41:24","slug":"minor-super-villain-358-the-black-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 358: THE BLACK HOOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 018, 1941)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEggYs6a7b5CPiWnUkws3cXsKjLFYrO1Pq38SQseKqdYWBXhS6Etx3_IE3odoq0w0ZkFjP0ZCR4cD5PSwsYtFcnZ7zyKhxs5deaGhR-nhPyh_maEhBoCCkjKC-T576KawS_ta7SZ2psFkIgrhxkGPXsx1whKTAqGHYpxYSX3PsuVMAvfjMMEbI8aQUW2EzBW\/w640-h410\/358a%20the%20black%20hood%20master%20018,1941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"852\" data-original-width=\"1332\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEggYs6a7b5CPiWnUkws3cXsKjLFYrO1Pq38SQseKqdYWBXhS6Etx3_IE3odoq0w0ZkFjP0ZCR4cD5PSwsYtFcnZ7zyKhxs5deaGhR-nhPyh_maEhBoCCkjKC-T576KawS_ta7SZ2psFkIgrhxkGPXsx1whKTAqGHYpxYSX3PsuVMAvfjMMEbI8aQUW2EzBW\/w640-h410\/358a%20the%20black%20hood%20master%20018,1941.JPG\" title=\"black hood\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Okay, I am a big fan of the Black Hood. Let&#8217;s count down the reasons:<\/p>\n<p>One: very exciting to see the classic super-suit being worn in the early days of suits and robes. This look won&#8217;t take long to become ubiquitous once it catches on but it&#8217;s still pretty rare in 1941.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjKcS_b5g-IKsIux_t924H14TqWXxPUrn91dSFpT_vmzhzZKDBmIPnpUAAtuN-o0r5g-vrRkc3j5jSe5IdJUXRLazbFDpLm4oVJ8XlTBJ55otWUhNKqWBvrMiArCrl1e1B7SIvOzLLpLKPoFjSzZGsVzvPzQbKVY96pH_YS8hB0S4NyQ40GS3eoIKVlAD8z\/w640-h286\/358b%20the%20black%20hood%20master%20018,1941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"695\" data-original-width=\"1552\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjKcS_b5g-IKsIux_t924H14TqWXxPUrn91dSFpT_vmzhzZKDBmIPnpUAAtuN-o0r5g-vrRkc3j5jSe5IdJUXRLazbFDpLm4oVJ8XlTBJ55otWUhNKqWBvrMiArCrl1e1B7SIvOzLLpLKPoFjSzZGsVzvPzQbKVY96pH_YS8hB0S4NyQ40GS3eoIKVlAD8z\/w640-h286\/358b%20the%20black%20hood%20master%20018,1941.JPG\" title=\"black hood\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Two: not only is he a fashion pioneer but he is a thought leader in the field of henchman couture. Dressing your guys in a slightly worse version of your own costume (in this case bright rather than dark blue) is a surefire move in the villain game and it&#8217;s going to be a while before we see it with any kind of regularity.<\/p>\n<p>Three: The Black Hood is introduced as El Carim&#8217;s arch-enemy, despite never having appeared before&#8217; and there are allusions to El Carim having broken up &#8220;four of his best rackets&#8221; etc. Implied lore is admittedly an easy way to build up a story&#8217;s interest but I guess I&#8217;m a sucker for it.<\/p>\n<p>About the only real criticism I have for the Black Hood is for all that he has experience battling El Carim (potentially <i>years<\/i> of experience, depending on the rate at which he sets up rackets) he is entirely unprepared to deal with Carim&#8217;s dank majiks. His approach is a completely straightforward trap and kill attempt and it goes very badly. A real shame.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless. regular costumed crooks like the Black Hood are the backbone any supercrime economy and he or his heirs should be <b>BRUNG BACK <\/b>post haste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Master Comics 018, 1941)&nbsp; Okay, I am a big fan of the Black Hood. Let&#8217;s count down the reasons: One: very exciting to see the classic super-suit being worn in the early days of suits and robes. This look won&#8217;t take long to become ubiquitous once it catches on but it&#8217;s still pretty rare in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,437,42,441,175,36,462,23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-black-hood","category-bring-em-back","category-el-carim","category-fawcett-comics","category-good-henchmen","category-great-costumes","category-minor-super-villain","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}