{"id":693,"date":"2024-06-20T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:48:26","slug":"minor-super-villain-548-madame-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 548: MADAME DOOM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 004, 1939)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_vtEClisI5uOhi-xoQsXNN7ZSULLg9efAjgUGOj8kBC30wwp010rfKT6Ebxbwp2nqM1zk2Y4csRxQeg9LPGrsxgBU1bfWeNYtlMqWgr92SzQpuzDDwuVWYdTXDL4VcFPU-02BgFYkx8xFDImCdNMmMi3GUer8e9Op9kaajeXWDh_kF9FkhOC_d5Utuv9B\/w640-h442\/547a%20Madam%20doom%20smash%20004%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"854\" data-original-width=\"1234\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi_vtEClisI5uOhi-xoQsXNN7ZSULLg9efAjgUGOj8kBC30wwp010rfKT6Ebxbwp2nqM1zk2Y4csRxQeg9LPGrsxgBU1bfWeNYtlMqWgr92SzQpuzDDwuVWYdTXDL4VcFPU-02BgFYkx8xFDImCdNMmMi3GUer8e9Op9kaajeXWDh_kF9FkhOC_d5Utuv9B\/w640-h442\/547a%20Madam%20doom%20smash%20004%201939.JPG\" title=\"madame doom\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We will be seeing more of Madame Doom, as she is Black X&#8217;s only real recurring foe (I think), but as far as 1939 goes she made one appearance and this is it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Madame Doom, a freelance spy, is working for &#8220;the dictators&#8221; in an attempt to steal US defense plans and prevent the signing of a pretty vague treaty that acts as a <i>deus ex machina<\/i> reason for war not to have broken out yet (war with the US, that is).<\/p>\n<p>In this first appearance Madam Doom is a very by-the-book Will Eisner femme fatale: a ruthless lady with the hots for the hero (reciprocated). <\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi2gLjHo6HFpkAC90v3FW7WHIlWQeLHRblqZ0TpviAQ26X34-eRRxWhFhIbR7oRYqAvCzm-fvKWuJbfEd6X9UQnkNJEgliB-IlTIlKGv_jsc_aSkMF-STVL83d4YRpB-HhM9kuoTQRDkAVkY36kMxZNl59GclSkTNtjkjqczzvqF53I8HQL_bbHlLR32UxF\/w624-h640\/547b%20Madam%20doom%20smash%20004%201939.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"432\" data-original-width=\"421\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi2gLjHo6HFpkAC90v3FW7WHIlWQeLHRblqZ0TpviAQ26X34-eRRxWhFhIbR7oRYqAvCzm-fvKWuJbfEd6X9UQnkNJEgliB-IlTIlKGv_jsc_aSkMF-STVL83d4YRpB-HhM9kuoTQRDkAVkY36kMxZNl59GclSkTNtjkjqczzvqF53I8HQL_bbHlLR32UxF\/w624-h640\/547b%20Madam%20doom%20smash%20004%201939.JPG\" title=\"madame doom\" width=\"624\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Black X doesn&#8217;t <i>quite<\/i> let her go on purpose but he certainly doesn&#8217;t try very hard to catch her. This is a mistake! The bloom definitely wears off the rose in this relationship later on.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/skeletonmunroe.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/minor-super-villain-548-update-madame.html\" target=\"_blank\">Madame Doom 1940<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Smash Comics 004, 1939) We will be seeing more of Madame Doom, as she is Black X&#8217;s only real recurring foe (I think), but as far as 1939 goes she made one appearance and this is it.&nbsp; Madame Doom, a freelance spy, is working for &#8220;the dictators&#8221; in an attempt to steal US defense plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,275,33,31,811,450,23,28,20,56,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-black-x","category-fatale","category-friendly-enemy","category-madame-doom","category-master-of-disguise","category-minor-super-villain","category-multiple-appearances","category-murderer","category-quality-comics","category-spy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}