REAL PERSON ROUND-UP 001

I have a lot of these in a spreadsheet somewhere but we'll get to those later. For now it's as we encounter them: real people and versions of real people and analogs of real people and also the same but famous fictional people in comics.

Admiral Dewey, John Paul Jones, Sir Francis Drake:

 Their ghosts all volunteer to help Sergeant Spook go pirate hunting (Blue Bolt v1 008, 1941)

Adolf Hitler: 

"Gustave Ritter" isn't really very close to "Adolf Hitler" but I have a finely hones sense for when someone is making a Hitler analog and this world-conquering barbarian from the year 2041 is just that. I think. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Clark Gable:

As "Stark Brable" in Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog's trip to Hollywood (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Lana Turner:

It's a classic first letter switcheroo as actress Lana Turner shows up as "Tana Lurner" in a Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog comic. (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Maid Marion:

The "Green Falcon" feature, as far as I can tell, takes place in a Robin-Hood era England with no Robin Hood but with Lady Marion here occupying the Maid Marion role. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Orson Welles:

"Nawson Swelles" is a troublesome "Boy Wonder" and the villain of Rang-a-Tang the Wonder Dog's visit to Hollywood. (Blue Ribbon Comics 005, 1940)

Prince John:

Essentially playing the same part as he does in the Robin Hood stories in the Green Falcon's adventures. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

Richard the Lionheart:

The key to Prince John's villainry is that the good king is off being a dipshit in the Holy Land and this version of Richard I does not fail in that. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

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MORE MLJ ACTION

Doc Strong:

Doc Strong is a famous scientist living in the year 2041, in a world where WWII dragged on for an entire century and a new Mongol Horde has swept in and conquered the battered remnants of civilization. The strangely Doc Savage-like Doc Strong gathers a group of like-minded scientists and starts a new civilization called the Isle of Right from which to strike back at the invaders with such inventions as a ray gun that solidifies shadows. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

the Fox:

Paul Patton, photographer for the Daily Globe, gets the tar beaten out of him by some fellows called the Night Riders and comes up with a plan:

That's right, he's about halfway between Spider-Man and Batman. Okay, he's mostly Batman but his wearable camera scheme anticipates Perter Parker's epic work hack by about twenty years. The Fox's first attempt at a costume is a bit rough, but eventually...

... he adopts one of the top costumes of the Golden Age! His adventures may be a bit regular but he looks great doing it.

BONUS FOX FACT: his "bat flies through the window" moment comes when he hears a song on the radio. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

the Green Falcon: 

The Green Falcon feature is essentially a Robin Hood Elseworlds story in which Robin is a knight instead of a forest outlaw and his pals Tiny Tuck and Jolly Roundfellow kind of encapsulate a few Merry Men each. Prince John is still there, and Maid Marion, but there are more swordfights than arrow tricks. Hey, I never said it was a particularly compelling Elseworlds story. It is more high concept than you usually get in a Golden Age comic, though. (Blue Ribbon Comics 004-015, 1940-1941)

Ty-Gor:

Ty-Gor is MLJ's answer to Mowgli: a British child orphaned in the jungles of Malaysia and raised by tigers. Ty-Gor is a shortened form of his birth name, Tyrone Gorman, which he learns thanks to an absurd series of events pictured above.

I don't usually have a lot of time for jungle adventures but Ty-Gor does have a pretty fun twist in that after a half dozen issues he is brought to New York by explorer Dr Davis and his daughter Joan and Does Not Adapt. He's just a wild kid who knows about five word maximum thrust into the public school system and causing havoc. It's fun! (Blue Ribbon Comics 004, 1940)

BONUS TY-GOR AS A BABY EATING GRAPES