{"id":5164,"date":"2022-11-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2026-09-27T19:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T22:33:42","slug":"minor-super-villain-199-the-crab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=5164","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 199: THE CRAB"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 013, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Crab here is a prime example of the gang boss who goes just over the top enough – and has a good enough moniker – to make the jump to full super-villain.<\/p>\n

His plan – hold the city to ransom for 5 million bucks, then blow up the first ambush the cops set for him to show he means business – is sufficiently out there, and he adds some flourishes like taunting the police via skywriting, but the thing that really does it is his signature: <\/p>\n

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It’s a little crab, oh my god<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Crack Comics 013, 1941) The Crab here is a prime example of the gang boss who goes just over the top enough – and has a good enough moniker – to make the jump to full super-villain. His plan – hold the city to ransom for 5 million bucks, then blow up the first ambush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,115,1060,2484,935,51,47,23,56,235,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-city-ransomer","category-clock","category-crab","category-crack-comics","category-extortionist","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-quality-comics","category-super-villain-definition","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","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=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}