{"id":991,"date":"2023-12-03T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:02:53","slug":"minor-super-villain-388-the-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"MINOR SUPER-VILLAIN 388: THE MASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 068, 1941)<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgKxMZ7QLY02X5A3CdhH7coLT5alWMOYpUGzD8F-ojA-KF8NzKGZ-veeWa5_fgdj0WfMiyQIzMhSlsKOxoUObSERcXQ5ioTqB53v_0s38bHY7O0nMh-5Q9-vU3WhNXjOgPtMU9o5iAB-zmcoJAtJbZ5tK-_C69m9SRlhHd7Be9WV486fh2EEQ9-9mufR9Dr\/w640-h288\/388a%20the%20master%20more%20fun%20068%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"460\" data-original-width=\"1025\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgKxMZ7QLY02X5A3CdhH7coLT5alWMOYpUGzD8F-ojA-KF8NzKGZ-veeWa5_fgdj0WfMiyQIzMhSlsKOxoUObSERcXQ5ioTqB53v_0s38bHY7O0nMh-5Q9-vU3WhNXjOgPtMU9o5iAB-zmcoJAtJbZ5tK-_C69m9SRlhHd7Be9WV486fh2EEQ9-9mufR9Dr\/w640-h288\/388a%20the%20master%20more%20fun%20068%201941.JPG\" title=\"the master\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Master is&#8230; probably Russian. It&#8217;s the same as all of the &#8220;pseudo-German crypto-Nazi&#8221; characters that populate comics pre-Pearl Harbor. Reading through the vagueness, he is a scientist whose partner emigrated to the US about the time of the Russian Revolution while the Master stayed behind. Now the Master wants revenge for his partner&#8217;s success and also is gearing up to take over the world and he&#8217;s using his sonic death ray device to achieve both tasks. Or would do, if Dr Fate wasn&#8217;t around to poke his helmeted nose into things.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhprMCYy_Zyq-PlJK8S8v3qe8MJMqG0rWnDxVRlTdRWXolW57j_PZ9DDQKAJcftnu86s1iXvwc3LL9GpFLU1s6-AV41DVofLbQKG6RgNjq5E0isv2W5vWKsUAMTY23wWrNoUDxGemrTcxG0WA8B7Ne9oKVPvvYF30VXwCWTqUJArKL47xQuO2DSCMeRzOW3\/w640-h616\/388b%20the%20master%20more%20fun%20068%201941.JPG\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"855\" data-original-width=\"888\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhprMCYy_Zyq-PlJK8S8v3qe8MJMqG0rWnDxVRlTdRWXolW57j_PZ9DDQKAJcftnu86s1iXvwc3LL9GpFLU1s6-AV41DVofLbQKG6RgNjq5E0isv2W5vWKsUAMTY23wWrNoUDxGemrTcxG0WA8B7Ne9oKVPvvYF30VXwCWTqUJArKL47xQuO2DSCMeRzOW3\/w640-h616\/388b%20the%20master%20more%20fun%20068%201941.JPG\" title=\"the master\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>By far the coolest thing about the Master is the depiction of said sonic death ray &#8211; it resembles nothing so much as an amorphous life-form, which is very cool! More of that, please!<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, once the Master is foiled he jumps in a swamp and drowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Fun Comics 068, 1941) The Master is&#8230; probably Russian. It&#8217;s the same as all of the &#8220;pseudo-German crypto-Nazi&#8221; characters that populate comics pre-Pearl Harbor. Reading through the vagueness, he is a scientist whose partner emigrated to the US about the time of the Russian Revolution while the Master stayed behind. Now the Master wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17,44,159,1040,23,20,101,7,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-dc-comics","category-dead","category-dr-fate","category-master","category-minor-super-villain","category-murderer","category-scientist","category-the","category-world-domination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","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=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}