{"id":85,"date":"2022-08-05T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:26:42","slug":"minor-super-hero-015-the-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-HERO 015: THE VOICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Feature Comics 032-037, 1940)<\/p>\n

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Of the dozen or so heroes and villains named the Voice, this is the best of them all, hands down. Let’s review:<\/p>\n

-shipwrecked on an island in 1790, lives off of special herbs that extend the human lifespan and empower the body<\/p>\n

-finally picked up in 1940, moves to NYC at 150-something years old<\/p>\n

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-successfully synthesizes the herb’s properties, ensuring that his life will continue indefinitely. Decides to fight crime<\/p>\n

-learns ventriloquism and close-up magic<\/p>\n

The last is my favourite part: he’s an old man who can pick up a car, for example, but most of his cases are solved with the application of a thrown voice or two. Plus that blonde guy in the second set of panels is his neighbour who just happens to be nearby when Mr Elixer – did I mention that his non-super-hero name<\/i> is Mr Elixer? – decides to fight crime and is basically conscripted into being his butler.<\/p>\n

Really really good dumb fun comic stuff. BRING BACK<\/b> the Voice!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Feature Comics 032-037, 1940) Of the dozen or so heroes and villains named the Voice, this is the best of them all, hands down. Let’s review: -shipwrecked on an island in 1790, lives off of special herbs that extend the human lifespan and empower the body -finally picked up in 1940, moves to NYC at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,42,86,87,4,56,7,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5","category-bring-em-back","category-feature-comics","category-immortal","category-minor-super-hero","category-quality-comics","category-the","category-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}