{"id":4896,"date":"2025-03-14T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2025-01-07T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T21:24:09","slug":"865-more-third-rate-villains-chronos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/865-more-third-rate-villains-chronos\/","title":{"rendered":"865 – More Third-Rate Villains: Chronos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Chronos<\/a>
Chronos the Time Clown is born, Atom #3 (Aug 1962)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Third-rate heroes like The Atom only deserve third-rate villains like Chronos the Time Thief<\/a>, who debuts in Atom #3 (Aug 1962). Naturally, Chronos’ schtick is all about time, and in this story, I think literally<\/em> every panel has him using the word “time” in his dialog, to the point of utter ridiculousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronos is visually distinctive in the same way that a clown is visually distinctive: His pants are black and white stripes, his shirt is green, he has yellow gloves, boots, and a cape, and he has a white mask with clock hands on it and a cut-out for his eyes and mouth and ears<\/em>. His gimmicks include a “sandstorm hourglass” that sprays out grains of sand and a watch that shoots its arms like tiny spears.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Atom v Chronos in Atom #3, Aug 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I know the early 1960s isn’t well known for its compelling character development or writing, but I am getting pretty tired<\/s> angry at lackluster plots, characters, and dialog like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Third-rate heroes like The Atom only deserve third-rate villains like Chronos the Time Thief, who debuts in Atom #3 (Aug 1962). Naturally, Chronos’ schtick is all about time, and in this story, I think literally every panel has him using the word “time” in his dialog, to the point of utter ridiculousness. Chronos is visually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[754,14,405,172],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-754","tag-dc","tag-lazy-writing","tag-the-atom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4942,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions\/4942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}