{"id":685,"date":"2022-08-25T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:48:15","slug":"minor-super-villains-126-the-witch-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAINS 126: THE WITCH-MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Slam-Bang Comics 005, 1940) <\/p>\n

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An early entry in the grand tradition of comic book characters that indirectly make the assertion that the Salem Witch Trials were entirely justified, since Salem was crawling with actual, factual witches such as this dapper fellow. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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See? Witches were real and they summoned fire devils and tried to sacrifice pure-hearted time-travelling children to them!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The foils to this dastardly and historically accurate fiend are teacher Rodney Kent and his pupil\/ ward Mark Swift, two prime examples of a comics type: time travelers who have precisely zero concept of not leaping in to express good old 20th Century American values no matter what time period they find themselves in. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Slam-Bang Comics 005, 1940)  An early entry in the grand tradition of comic book characters that indirectly make the assertion that the Salem Witch Trials were entirely justified, since Salem was crawling with actual, factual witches such as this dapper fellow. See? Witches were real and they summoned fire devils and tried to sacrifice pure-hearted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,293,175,807,23,805,7,191,806],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-demon-summoning","category-fawcett-comics","category-mark-swift-and-rodney-kent","category-minor-super-villain","category-slam-bang-comics","category-the","category-villains-of-the-past","category-witch-master"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}