{"id":5148,"date":"2023-04-24T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:33:02","slug":"minor-super-villain-265-the-mad-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 265: THE MAD DOCTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This one, while not being particularly spectacular as a whole does contain a lot of fun elements. Let’s count them off!<\/p>\n

We open on our hero one a one-issue trip to Europe (1) where he pooh-poohs the local superstitions (2) about a castle full of vampires who steal young women (3).<\/p>\n

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The Angel – for it is he who pooh-poohs – quickly gets mixed up in an attempted vampiric abduction and, surprise surprise, the guy isn’t actually a vampire at all (4). A shame, because I love it when vampires are wretched little weasels instead of cool guys in evening wear.<\/p>\n

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It turns out that the supposed vampire clan is actually a front for an unnamed mad scientist – “Mad Doctor” is a captions-only unofficial name (5) – who is kidnapping the young women for use as test subjects (6) in his mind-swapping machine (7) and he intends to place his latest victim’s mind into the body of a gorilla (8).<\/p>\n

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Lucky for the hapless fraulein, the Angel shows up, there is a fracas and the whole place ends up exploding (9).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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