{"id":967,"date":"2022-08-01T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=967"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:59:34","slug":"minor-super-villain-093-the-skull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 093: THE SKULL"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Detective Comics 043, 1940)<\/p>\n

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A skull-faced propagandist operating out of the Belgian Congo, presumably Nazi but it’s pre-Pearl Harbor so he works for a “hostile power” or “the dictatorships” etc.<\/p>\n

The really intriguing thing about the Skull is his choice of themes – rather than go with an obvious skeleton motif like your average skull-faced goon would do, he instead opted for a Medieval theme, complete with sword-wielding henchmen and a jungle castle. I would praise him for making good and interesting choices but he’s probably a Nazi, so never mind.<\/p>\n

RETROACTIVE ADDENDUM: got a lot of guys named the Skull coming up so I’m going to start scoring them on how appropriate their nom de crime<\/i> is. This guy is obviously SKULL SCORE: 5\/5<\/p>\n

UNPRECIDENTED SECOND ADDENDUM: I messed up! this guy is pro war but he’s just a munitions profiteer! Sorry, skull-headed creep!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Detective Comics 043, 1940) A skull-faced propagandist operating out of the Belgian Congo, presumably Nazi but it’s pre-Pearl Harbor so he works for a “hostile power” or “the dictatorships” etc. The really intriguing thing about the Skull is his choice of themes – rather than go with an obvious skeleton motif like your average skull-faced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,61,1012,17,44,80,23,1013,436,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-capitalism","category-cliff-crosby","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-detective-comics","category-minor-super-villain","category-propagandist","category-skull","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}