(Hit Comics 013, 1941)
The Strange Twins get a medal from the San Francisco PD.
(Since they may never come up again: the Strange Twins were a set of English twins (natch) separated as infants when an enemy of their father had one kidnapped as revenge. That one, Rodney, was raised as a criminal and became a feared gang boss, while his brother Douglas grew up to become a Scotland Yard Inspector.
The first year or so of Strange Twins strips involved a lot of mistaken identity intrigue including Doug going to prison for several years and multiple near-fratricides on both sides until Rod's foster father Wing Low revealed the truth, upon which they reconciled (Doug conveniently ignoring Rod's multiple on-panel murders for the sake of family) and became an adventure team - not as fun, but still okay.
The best thing about them is that it's more interesting to have Rod go up against his old crime rivals, so they meet guys named London Joe and Limehouse Lew no matter what part of the globe they find themselves in. The second best is that the only way to tell them apart is that Rod smokes cigarettes and Doug smokes a pipe)
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