{"id":517,"date":"2023-04-18T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:41:47","slug":"minor-super-villain-262-dr-manyac-the-green-flame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 262: DR MANYAC & THE GREEN FLAME"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 004, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Dr Manyac here is a perfectly fine criminal scientist with a very good name. It’s just too bad for him that he is in the very common position of being completely overshadowed by his henchmen:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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THE GREEN FLAME<\/b>! Very very cool looking guys who are also some of our first simple examples of evil opposites<\/i>, as their green flame burns cold to contend with our pal the red-hot Human Torch. Using the threat of the Green Flame’s cold causing buildings to crumble and collapse, Manyac aims to ransom New York for big bux.<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately for his plans, and especially for his henchmen, the Green Flame’s suits aren’t quite robust enough to stand up to the Human Torch’s flame. They all end up roasted, while Manyac is carted off to jail, never to be seen again (until he’s brought back and killed off in 2009, natch)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Marvel Mystery Comics v1 004, 1940) Dr Manyac here is a perfectly fine criminal scientist with a very good name. It’s just too bad for him that he is in the very common position of being completely overshadowed by his henchmen: THE GREEN FLAME! Very very cool looking guys who are also some of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,102,115,44,656,655,36,657,93,24,40,23,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-brung-back","category-city-ransomer","category-dead","category-dr-manyac","category-evil-opposite","category-good-henchmen","category-green-flame","category-human-torch","category-marvel-comics","category-marvel-mystery-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","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=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}