{"id":807,"date":"2022-08-08T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=807"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:53:31","slug":"minor-super-villain-106-the-society-of-assassins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 106: THE SOCIETY OF ASSASSINS"},"content":{"rendered":"

(More Fun Comics 053-057, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Comic books love the Order of Assassins – it’s a ready-made group tough enough to tackle most heroes, plus they’re all foreign and such. They crop up all over the place – it’s like that thing where so many remnants of Atlantis exist that it’s hard to imagine that anyone died, but instead when the power of the Assassins was shattered each individual member went off and founded their own new Order.<\/p>\n

This<\/i> bunch of Assassins operated out of Algiers (but also Bombay, because as noted previously the creative team behind Captain Desmo had a fairly shaky grasp on the geographical distinction between India and North Africa) and caused a lot of trouble for Captain Desmo and his pal Gabby until, in a moment of poor judgement, they captured them and took them to their HQ.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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If I was the Grand Assassin of Algiers I simply would not rig my mountain fastness with explosives and leave the trigger in an easily accessible location.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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