I feel like I might have seen one or two Golden Age comics-stories in which American-born Japanese citizens were shown to be nobler than the vicious Nipponese of the Axis alliance. But before this tale from FOUR FAVORITES #16, I'd never seen a GA story that showed respect for the medieval Japanese tradition of the samurai, even for the purpose of using samurai honor as a club against the modern Japanese. The evil hook-handed villain in the costume is Captain Nippo, recurring foe of the starfish-cowled Captain Courageous.
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