{"id":3963,"date":"2026-06-28T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3963"},"modified":"2026-09-27T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:17:34","slug":"real-person-round-up-026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=3963","title":{"rendered":"REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again<\/a> we point and go “Hey. It’s that <\/i>guy.”<\/p>\n

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

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Captain Courageous has to deal with a few pseudo-Nazis working for Hitler-alike Hinkler. (Banner Comics 003, 1941) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Real Hitler takes a scheme-foiling by Vulcan pretty hard. (Four Favorites 001, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Devil’s Island<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Captain America and Bucky infiltrate Devil’s Island to free a prisoner who is not only a victim of carceral justice taken to unjust extremes but also as an arm of the Nazi government in France. (Captain America Comics 005, 1941)<\/p>\n

the Duke and Duchess of Windsor<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Duke of Windsor, aka the former King Edward VIII of England and his wife Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, welcome Speed Martin to the Bahamas in the Duke’s wartime role as the Governor General of that territory. (The Funnies 051, 1941)<\/p>\n

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

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Super-American rescues the most obscured-by-shadow (and completely silent!) FDR we have yet seen from the evil Tyrannus. The usual shadowed-features treatment that he usually gets is so over the top in that it looks like the President is going to be dramatically revealed to be some sort of frog monster in the next panel. (Fight Comics 015, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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By contrast, here’s a very recognizable FDR congratulating newsreel cameraman Speed Martin on returning from Europe with some vital intel on the Axis war machine. (The Funnies 051, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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And by contrast with that<\/i>, here’s “Mr Jones,” the mysterious government official who recruits Captain Midnight into his country’s service and who is heavily implied to be a disguised FDR, even though he lacks the President’s famously large head. (The Funnies 057, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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(don’t worry: someone thought about the big head issue and inflated it by The Funnies<\/i> 058)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

the German-American Bund<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Very rare appearance of the German-American Bund under it’s own name, even if the actual group was already in severe decline at the point this book was published. (Captain America Comics 005, 1941)<\/p>\n

Harold R. Stark<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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He’s not named, but the Chief of Naval Operations seen here sure looks like the man who held the position at the time, Harold R. Stark. Did they do a photo reference this one time? (The Funnies 055, 1941)<\/p>\n

Joe Dimaggio<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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“Joey Diraggio,” star player for the Brooklyn Badgers and victim of the Black Toad<\/a>. (Captain America Comics 007, 1941)<\/p>\n

the Venus de Milo<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Venus de Milo is stolen by Zeus and brought back to Ancient Greece so that he can turn it into a human woman to be his wife. Zanzibar the Magician rescues the statue woman and brings her back to the present with him, but the question is never resolved: does he chop off her arms and turn her into a statue again? Is the Fox Features Universe minus one statue and plus one blonde lady? (Mystery Men Comics 002, 1939)<\/p>\n

Winston Churchill<\/b>:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Personally thanks Vulcan for escorting a convoy to England. (Four Favourites 001, 1941) <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again we point and go “Hey. It’s that guy.” Adolf Hitler: Captain Courageous has to deal with a few pseudo-Nazis working for Hitler-alike Hinkler. (Banner Comics 003, 1941)  Real Hitler takes a scheme-foiling by Vulcan pretty hard. (Four Favorites 001, 1941) Devil’s Island: Captain America and Bucky infiltrate Devil’s Island to free a prisoner who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,14,94,535,320,1349,225,226,99,3,24,270,2088,747,416,880],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-14","category-ace-magazines","category-bucky","category-captain-america","category-captain-courageous","category-captain-midnight","category-dell","category-fiction-house","category-fox-features","category-marvel-comics","category-real-folk","category-speed-martin","category-super-american","category-vulcan","category-zanzibar-the-magician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963","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=3963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3964,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3963\/revisions\/3964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}