{"id":801,"date":"2025-12-14T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:53:16","slug":"real-person-round-up-020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=801","title":{"rendered":"REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where would comic books be without real people, after all?<\/p>\n

Easter Island<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Lance O’Casey and his pal Dan’l Doom fight some wreckers on Easter island, and while I can’t tell if the place saw enough ship traffic in the 1940s to make shipwrecking a profitable enterprise, I will<\/i> say that the concept of Lance and Dan’l just casually passing by one of the most isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean while travelling from place to place is an eyebrow raiser.<\/p>\n

The whole Easter Island aspect of the adventure honestly seems to just be a bit of set dressing, but I sure do love these extremely flat moai statues.(Whiz Comics 013, 1941) <\/p>\n

Fort Knox<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As “Fort Gnox,” robbed by Dr Sivana. (Whiz Comics 014, 1940)<\/p>\n

FDR<\/b>: <\/p>\n

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Spy Smasher saves the president from being assassinated by probable-Nazi spy the Dark Angel, leading to what I can only interpret as a very awkward meeting between the two. (Spy Smasher 001, 1941) <\/p>\n

Fiorello La Guardia (Not)<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Wow Comics <\/i>004 features not one but two mayors who are not Fiorello La Guardia in comics previously established to be set in New York City. I’d say poor guy for not getting elected in two different versions of Earth-S but neither of these guys are exactly having a good time. (Wow Comics 004, 1941)<\/p>\n

Harry “A” Chesler<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Zip Comics<\/i> 007
\n Steel Sterling story involves a crooked moneylending firm called the
\nUwana Loan Company, and here we see the door of that company with H. “A”
\n C. listed as president. Comic book publisher Harry “A” Chesler was a
\ndecent boss as far as I can tell, so once and future Chesler employee\/
\n“Steel Sterling” scribe Charles Biro is probably indulging in some
\nclassic comic book yuk-em-ups here rather than a trenchant skewering.
\n(Zip Comics 007, 1940) <\/p>\n

Henry L. Stimson<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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US Secretary of State. As “Secretary Simpson,” almost gets assassinated and mummified by the Black Thorn. (America’s Greatest Comics 001, 1941) <\/p>\n

J Edgar Hoover<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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As “FBI Chief Doover” almost gets assassinated by the Ghost. (am greatest 001 1941)<\/p>\n

Ken Crawford<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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The Mask adopts a reporter alias as part of an attempt to find out the Spy Smasher’s secret identity, and there is no doubt in my mind that “Crawf Kenford” is a classic syllable-flip reference to venerable political correspondent Ken Crawford. (Whiz Comics 013, 1941)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Mort Meskin<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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You have to squint to read it, but that red sign says “M. Meskin, Fish” on it. (Zip Comics 007, 1940)<\/p>\n

William Tell<\/b>: <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Golden Arrow plays William Tell in a local school pageant, with love interest Carol Braddock as the apple-headed son. (Whiz Comics 012, 1941) <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where would comic books be without real people, after all? Easter Island:  Lance O’Casey and his pal Dan’l Doom fight some wreckers on Easter island, and while I can’t tell if the place saw enough ship traffic in the 1940s to make shipwrecking a profitable enterprise, I will say that the concept of Lance and Dan’l just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,475,876,175,908,48,907,606,270,700,653],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-14","category-captain-marvel","category-dr-sivana","category-fawcett-comics","category-golden-arrow","category-mlj","category-mr-satan","category-mr-scarlet","category-real-folk","category-spy-smasher","category-steel-sterling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}