{"id":89,"date":"2022-09-27T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:26:43","slug":"minor-super-villain-166-lugo-the-harpie-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 166: LUGO, THE HARPIE OF HORROR"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle Comics 006, 1941)<\/p>\n

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I skip a lot of generic villains from the non-Marvel or DC families of comics, because everyone existing together in a big shared world is the thing about comics that makes me get out my spreadsheets and my extensive tagging system. A guy like Lugo, though, demands at least a little attention.<\/p>\n

One thing to know about him off the bat is: he’s an underwater guy. This happens a lot in comics starring underwater heroes such as Sub Saunders – just an surface thing transposed 1:1 to the depths. So Lugo is a bird-man, but he flies underwater and steals women to be his undersea brides off the coast of Florida. I really love his design, particularly his chicken feet and umbrella wings. Not so hot on the woman-kidnapping, but he gets his ass kicked successively by a snake-dragon, a stalactite and Sub Saunders before he gets the chance to take it any farther than abduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blue Beetle Comics 006, 1941) I skip a lot of generic villains from the non-Marvel or DC families of comics, because everyone existing together in a big shared world is the thing about comics that makes me get out my spreadsheets and my extensive tagging system. A guy like Lugo, though, demands at least a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,70,44,3,54,90,23,91,89,21,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-creep","category-dead","category-fox-features","category-kidnapper","category-lugo-the-harpie-of-horror","category-minor-super-villain","category-monsters","category-sub-saunders","category-undersea","category-villains-of-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}