{"id":785,"date":"2024-04-08T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=785"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:52:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:52:29","slug":"minor-super-villain-491-the-weasel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 491: THE WEASEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Big Shot Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Just a simple head of a gang that specializes in stealing furs (and I would call that over-specialized but we’re just a couple of years off from wartime rationing and with it gangs that specialize in meat, tires and scrap metal theft) but he has a number of super-villainous aspects:<\/p>\n

-the biggest one has to go first and it’s that he has the chutzpah to track a police informant through the streets of New York with a pack of bloodhounds. It’s a real power move!<\/p>\n

-the name and the cape don’t hurt<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s actually about it. Those bloodhounds are doing a lot of heavy lifting. The Weasel eventually decides to push his luck re: the cops and their willingness to use deadly force in defense of property and meets his end in a burning fur warehouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Big Shot Comics 001, 1940) Just a simple head of a gang that specializes in stealing furs (and I would call that over-specialized but we’re just a couple of years off from wartime rationing and with it gangs that specialize in meat, tires and scrap metal theft) but he has a number of super-villainous aspects: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,109,44,47,23,7,892,891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-columbia","category-dead","category-gang-boss","category-minor-super-villain","category-the","category-tom-kerry-district-attorney","category-weasel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","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=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}