{"id":837,"date":"2022-07-18T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=837"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:54:41","slug":"minor-super-villain-080-the-emperor-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 080: THE EMPEROR OF AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"

(All American Comics 021, 1940)<\/p>\n

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An old man who lives in a cave outside of Calvin City, the Emperor of America takes a bunch of Al “the Atom” Pratt’s classmates prisoner as potential mind-controlled minions. Honestly, if it weren’t for the fact that he already has a cadre of identical huge men in his employ he might be more believable as a delusional hermit than a credible threat – and since he never actually gets to demonstrate his mind control techniques before dying in a cave-in, the jury is and will always be still out. He’s the Atom’s first super-villainous opponent, though, so we’ll allow it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(All American Comics 021, 1940) An old man who lives in a cave outside of Calvin City, the Emperor of America takes a bunch of Al “the Atom” Pratt’s classmates prisoner as potential mind-controlled minions. Honestly, if it weren’t for the fact that he already has a cadre of identical huge men in his employ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,446,943,46,17,44,942,111,23,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-all-american-comics","category-atom","category-conquest","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-emperor-of-america","category-mind-control","category-minor-super-villain","category-scientist","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}