{"id":747,"date":"2022-07-22T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:50:29","slug":"minor-super-villain-082-the-puppet-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 082: THE PUPPET MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Batman Comics 003, 1940)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgkm1jT7e11RUH3BubAket6ESf0Nvg3wMnQcszA6te9tJTdeFjusdlR_uKWhucmNVKNptUHJf2n3rpC-03qfIo6vescOa4izfNjffzvYi5dnECCpXX4Raqi9pNwFK1bdhvSIr3fnDNV4uRAEkIcj6FKXXMMgY-gsq9F55O2R5wLu5fFJvB53VWGjhfURw\/w640-h436\/74.%20the%20puppet%20master.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"491\" data-original-width=\"720\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgkm1jT7e11RUH3BubAket6ESf0Nvg3wMnQcszA6te9tJTdeFjusdlR_uKWhucmNVKNptUHJf2n3rpC-03qfIo6vescOa4izfNjffzvYi5dnECCpXX4Raqi9pNwFK1bdhvSIr3fnDNV4uRAEkIcj6FKXXMMgY-gsq9F55O2R5wLu5fFJvB53VWGjhfURw\/w640-h436\/74.%20the%20puppet%20master.JPG\" title=\"the Puppet Master\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 18px;white-space: pre-wrap\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"color: #0f1419;white-space: pre-wrap\"><b>What makes them a super-villain?<\/b> The Puppet Master controls the minds of men via drug-assisted mental compulsion. He even mind-grabs Batman for a while &#8211; surely a villainous feat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18px;white-space: pre-wrap\"><b>What makes them interesting? <\/b>Aside from the brief end-run on Batman&#8217;s mind, the most interesting thing about this guy is I think he&#8217;s supposed to be a Cossack? His goons are certainly Cossacks. Have we lost a whole set of cultural signifiers about Cossacks or is this like the day in high school I went to a dentist appointment and missed learning how to cross-multiply and you all know this stuff?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"Tweet-footer\" style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;margin-left: 58px;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0px\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-actions Tweet-actions--readOnly\" style=\"color: #536471;display: flex;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-top: 10px\"><button aria-label=\"Retweet\" class=\"Tweet-action Tweet-action--retweet\" disabled=\"\" style=\"background: 0px 50%;border: 0px;color: inherit;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 12px;margin: 0px;min-width: 80px;overflow: visible;padding: 0px;text-align: left;text-transform: none\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"Icon Icon--retweet\" style=\"background: transparent;display: inline-block;font-style: normal;position: relative;vertical-align: baseline\"><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Tweet-body\" style=\"color: #0f1419;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;margin-left: 58px;text-align: start;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none;white-space: normal;word-spacing: 0px\">\n<div class=\"Tweet-photoGallery Tweet-photoGallery--photos0\" style=\"border-radius: 14px;font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;margin-top: 10px;overflow: hidden;position: relative;width: 494px\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Batman Comics 003, 1940) What makes them a super-villain? The Puppet Master controls the minds of men via drug-assisted mental compulsion. He even mind-grabs Batman for a while &#8211; surely a villainous feat. What makes them interesting? Aside from the brief end-run on Batman&#8217;s mind, the most interesting thing about this guy is I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,60,17,111,23,852,64,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-batman","category-dc-comics","category-mind-control","category-minor-super-villain","category-puppet-master","category-robin","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","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=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}