{"id":2944,"date":"2026-03-26T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T20:29:54","slug":"real-person-round-up-022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=2944","title":{"rendered":"REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 022"},"content":{"rendered":"

What percentage of these people<\/a> knew that they had ever been portrayed in a comic book, you reckon?<\/p>\n

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

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Hitler gets beaten up by the Silver Streak after he captures and attempts to kill Meteor. (Silver Streak Comics 016, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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A particularly parodic version of Hitler deploys a super weapon that is ultimately thwarted by Dickie Dean.  (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941) <\/p>\n

Charles Biro:<\/b><\/p>\n

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Gangster Chick Biro almost gets killed by his boss the Domino but is saved when Presto Martin takes his place. (Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941)<\/p>\n

Genghis Khan<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Bingham Boys and their friends hunt down the Sword of Genghis Khan to a Tibetan lamasery, where the Grand Lama claims to be the descendant of the Khan and thus entitled to conquer the world. Our heroes beat up the would-be Khan and spirit the sword away to an American museum. (Silver Streak Comics 016, 1941)<\/p>\n

George Roussos<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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It’s a classic case of slapping your fellow comic book creator’s name on a background sign as “Presto Martin” scribe Bob Wood uses Roussos’ name on an apartment building. (Silver Streak Comics 010, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Next issue of the same strip features the headline “Roussos Does it Again! Famous Cartoonist Meets Second Deadline! I can hardly wait to read Roussos’ work in Daredevil Comics <\/i>to see if he shoots back. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Same issue features Roussos’ Army & Navy Store, with a “Jerry Robinson<\/b>, Prop.” thrown in for good measure. (Silver Streak Comics 011, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

George Washington<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Deploys his personal agent Dan Dearborn to escort a gunpowder shipment and help protect it from capture by the British. (Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941)<\/p>\n

George Rogers Clark<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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That gunpowder is transported downriver by Clark, a Revolutionary War hero whom I was unfamiliar with and whose Wikipedia page is predictably fraught. (Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941)<\/p>\n

Captain John Neville<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Commander of the Fort Pitt garrison at Pittsburgh, where he briefly meets Dan Dearborn. (Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941)<\/p>\n

Mao Zedong<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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He doesn’t play a direct role in the story, but Mao Tung here is definitely a stand-in for Mao Zedong, aka Mao Tse-tung. Captain Battle saves him from an assassination attempt by a Japanese spy. (Captain Battle Comics 001, 1941)<\/p>\n

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

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Goldbyn, head of Paragold Film Studios, is a classic stand-in for Sam Goldwyn of MGM. (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941)<\/p>\n

Unknown News Broadcaster<\/strike> Jimmie Fidler<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As you can see, above, I was initially unable to find the reference point for Jimmy Fiddle here. The problem is that I have been conditioned to think a certain way about these stand-in names, so I spent a lot of effort looking for “James Diffle” and “John Oboe” and so forth, and didn’t even consider<\/i> that it might be something as simple as “Jimmie Fidler” until I remembered that we had already encountered<\/a> a Jimmy Fiddle and filed him under Unknown. <\/p>\n

Sorry for disrespecting your 50+ year media career, Jimmie Fidler. In my defense, you retired when I was three years old. (Silver Streak Comics 009, 1941) <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What percentage of these people knew that they had ever been portrayed in a comic book, you reckon? Adolf Hitler: Hitler gets beaten up by the Silver Streak after he captures and attempts to kill Meteor. (Silver Streak Comics 016, 1941) A particularly parodic version of Hitler deploys a super weapon that is ultimately thwarted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1822,1821,322,139,426,449,270,432,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14","category-bingham-boys","category-dan-dearborn","category-dickie-dean-boy-inventor","category-lev-gleason","category-meteor","category-presto-martin","category-real-folk","category-silver-streak","category-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944","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=2944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2944\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}