REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 022

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 by Dickie Dean.  (Silver Streak Comics 017, 1941) 

Charles Biro:

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)

Genghis Khan:

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)

George Roussos: 

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)

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 to see if he shoots back. 

Same issue features Roussos' Army & Navy Store, with a "Jerry Robinson, Prop." thrown in for good measure. (Silver Streak Comics 011, 1941)

George Washington: 

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)

George Rogers Clark: 

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)

Captain John Neville: 

Commander of the Fort Pitt garrison at Pittsburgh, where he briefly meets Dan Dearborn. (Silver Streak Comics 008, 1941)

Mao Zedong: 

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)

Samuel Goldwyn:

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

Unknown News Broadcaster Jimmie Fidler: 

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 that it might be something as simple as "Jimmie Fidler" until I remembered that we had already encountered a Jimmy Fiddle and filed him under Unknown. 

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)