{"id":587,"date":"2026-07-16T09:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:44:12","slug":"catalogue-of-wounds-011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"CATALOGUE OF WOUNDS 011"},"content":{"rendered":"

We regret to inform you that more super-heroes have been wounded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

the Blue Beetle<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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The very first thing that happens in the very first Blue Beetle comic: Dan “the Blue Beetle” Garret gets shot in the left arm. (Mystery Men Comics 001, 1939)<\/p>\n

Domino the Miracle Boy<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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It’s a miracle (a boy miracle?) that Domino survives 1941, because he gets hit by a dang car. (Green Mask v1 006, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Not two issues later, Domino gets shot in the ever-popular left shoulder (Green Mask v1 008, 1941)<\/p>\n

the Green Mask<\/b>:<\/p>\n

I’ve been going through some old Fox Features comics for head traumas<\/a> at the same time as reading The Green Mask<\/i> v1 for the first time, which means that I’ve hit a real rich seam of injuries to the Green Mask in particular. Let’s review:<\/p>\n

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The Green Mask gets shot in an unspecified place while swinging across a gorge and seemingly falls to his doom. Don’t worry though: he’s okay. (Green Mask v1 004, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Green Mask continues this trend of getting shot in an indeterminate location from close range in his next appearance, first at the hands of freelance spy Dr Tsu…<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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And then by fascist spy chief Kurt Ebler. Despite Ebler’s assertion that the Green Mask is not bulletproof, I am beginning to suspect that he is at the very least bullet resistant<\/i>. (Green Mask v1 005, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Stepping back a bit: the Green Mask gets stabbed in the left shoulder. (Mystery Men Comics 013, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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One issue later: shot in the left shoulder. (Mystery Men Comics 014, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lest he be accused of neglecting the classics, the Green Mask sustains a textbook skull crease late in 1941. (Mystery Men Comics 022, 1941)<\/p>\n

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And finally: the Green Mask’s left shoulder is “grazed by a bullet” hard enough to knock him off a car. (Green Mask v1 007, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We regret to inform you that more super-heroes have been wounded. the Blue Beetle:  The very first thing that happens in the very first Blue Beetle comic: Dan “the Blue Beetle” Garret gets shot in the left arm. (Mystery Men Comics 001, 1939) Domino the Miracle Boy: It’s a miracle (a boy miracle?) that Domino […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,14,35,496,3,492,7,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-5","category-14","category-blue-beetle","category-domino-the-miracle-boy","category-fox-features","category-green-mask","category-the","category-wound-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","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=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}