{"id":597,"date":"2025-03-13T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:44:43","slug":"minor-super-villain-742-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=597","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 742: THE VOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 007, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjmIwIgFcG-ENf2IVfAPGjXGJ4X-9dx-Ff42qCDDT4y7BHoeUv6hnxbDSxM4Xk0npqQx_JuPikIzT2hDXvsVk6-06wtaX-XsxE5DY7NisQ1nunmnzebOv1ia5QnLSc7iICMGhafwc0myQZ4g82xKOPSMdx_l4HPAa9jU9dVUgpbS8pifMI_l3G9Yg7RPiSu\/w640-h436\/742a%20the%20voice%20smash%20007%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"775\" data-original-width=\"1136\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjmIwIgFcG-ENf2IVfAPGjXGJ4X-9dx-Ff42qCDDT4y7BHoeUv6hnxbDSxM4Xk0npqQx_JuPikIzT2hDXvsVk6-06wtaX-XsxE5DY7NisQ1nunmnzebOv1ia5QnLSc7iICMGhafwc0myQZ4g82xKOPSMdx_l4HPAa9jU9dVUgpbS8pifMI_l3G9Yg7RPiSu\/w640-h436\/742a%20the%20voice%20smash%20007%201940.JPG\" title=\"the voice\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Voice! A classic and popular alter ego for a reason &#8211; all you need is to be heard more than you are seen and you have yourself a gimmick, and if you have some sort of voice-based super power, well that&#8217;s a real bonus. In this case, the Voice is a mysterious figure who has kidnapped Lola Barnes, daughter of wealthy gem collector Sir Sidney Barnes. The Voice demands 100 000 pounds and the Red Star Diamond in return for Lola&#8217;s safe return and of course Captain Cook of Scotland Yard is brought in on the case. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9Xlq22CQCQEec3Y4YJnedgWUa3CAgwNWukNR3Ki6Vr2yaixaSLceAIXSgbirCOLKMjduzixjOAgGIsUfHsQFX0XITj-L5NMVTfeWwrHpphpoCzoWTqu27wupRo6w1HZ7Bi0M8amUHyZhiEJzKw9f_WPfgd1TeJ8Y2GBMaDZZOVgirw5kUrOKvJSBoX32T\/w640-h448\/742b%20the%20voice%20smash%20007%201940.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"776\" data-original-width=\"1111\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj9Xlq22CQCQEec3Y4YJnedgWUa3CAgwNWukNR3Ki6Vr2yaixaSLceAIXSgbirCOLKMjduzixjOAgGIsUfHsQFX0XITj-L5NMVTfeWwrHpphpoCzoWTqu27wupRo6w1HZ7Bi0M8amUHyZhiEJzKw9f_WPfgd1TeJ8Y2GBMaDZZOVgirw5kUrOKvJSBoX32T\/w640-h448\/742b%20the%20voice%20smash%20007%201940.JPG\" title=\"the voice\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Voice turns out to be Sir Sidney&#8217;s otherwise-unnamed servant, who seeks to recover the diamond because it was once owned by his ancestors, with the hundred grand as a sweet bonus. But how just is his quest? was the gem sold? stolen? Is this a case of colonialist injustice driving a man to the edge or is it just the scion of a formerly wealthy family taking a shortcut back to his perceived natural station? We will never know, because the Voice is a bad driver and dies while attempting to escape with the swag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 007, 1940) The Voice! A classic and popular alter ego for a reason &#8211; all you need is to be heard more than you are seen and you have yourself a gimmick, and if you have some sort of voice-based super power, well that&#8217;s a real bonus. In this case, the Voice is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,732,44,495,54,23,7,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-captain-cook-of-scotland-yard","category-dead","category-jewel-thief","category-kidnapper","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}