{"id":1301,"date":"2025-04-16T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:15:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T19:15:43","slug":"real-person-round-up-013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 013"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet again we have a selection of comic book appearances of real-style people for you to enjoy. <\/p>\n

Adolf Hitler<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Warak, dictator of Barbaria is a bit generic as far as pseudo-Hitlers go, but a pseudo-Hitler he is. (Smash Comics 017, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Scraggs, leader of the Green Shirts, is very much a “make the leader look like Hitler as shorthand for These Guys Are Fascists” character, a subspecies that will nearly die out some time in 1941 but survives in small numbers to this day. (Startling Comics 001, 1940)<\/p>\n

Devil’s Island<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Black X has himself sent to, and then escapes from, Devil’s Island in order to secure a fellow prisoner with valuable US defense secrets in his head. (Smash Comics 013, 1940)<\/p>\n

FDR<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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An off-model Roosevelt visits Carterville and is kidnapped by Devil’s Dagger nemesis Jeff Marlowe (and thus retroactively by Marlowe’s boss Mr H<\/a>). This is a wild<\/i> move for a regional crime boss to pull! (Master Comics 006, 1940)<\/p>\n

Gill Fox<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Probably a different guy to the last “Gil Fox” to appear in a Clip Chance comic – this one is just a small town baseball player. (Smash Comics 015, 1940)<\/p>\n

Groucho Marx<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Goucho’s look lifted wholesale for this unnamed comedy character. (Star Comics 010, 1938) <\/p>\n

Hollywood<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Autograph hound adds Shock Gibson to her collection along with “Cary Trooper” and “Glark Cable,” aka Gary Cooper<\/b> and Clark Gable<\/b>. (Speed Comics 009, 1940)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Joe Devlin<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Given the prior instance of Joe Devlin being referenced in a Clip Chance story<\/a> I must assume that the “John Devlin” mentioned here is another. (Smash Comics 014, 1940)<\/p>\n

Joseph Stalin<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Three Aces (but not the DC Comics Three Aces, the Harvey Comics ones) transport three anthropology-minded sisters to Paraguay to study the Guat\u00f3 people and stumble upon a plot by the sinister witch doctor Ni Lats to bring all under his sway via hypnotic mind control, for which crime he is drowned in a swamp.<\/p>\n

(slight aside: the Guat\u00f3 are a real people<\/a> being used as set dressing for an exotic locale, and weirdly, in checking to see if that was the case I’m pretty sure I stumbled across the exact reference that Klaus Nordling drew from – every detail in the brief entry<\/a> on the Guat\u00f3 in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica <\/i>is reflected in the story. The mind control thing is added plot) (Speed Comics 010, 1940)<\/p>\n

Samuel Goldwyn<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Is this movie producer named Sam meant to be<\/i> Samuel Goldwyn or merely a lookalike reference to him? Regardless, this is clearly Samuel Goldwyn. (Speed Comics 010, 1940)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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