While buzzing through the Timely comic ALL SURPRISE in hot pursuit of another meaningless crossover, I came across the following in-joke in a story featuring "Gandy and Sourpuss," two very off-model incarnations of the Terrytoons animated characters:
Since "Stanislaw Lee" has nothing in common with Timely editor Stan Lee but a similar name, this is probably just some antic name-dropping than satire. Lee was, however, not in charge of Timely when this joke came out in issue 3, because during his army service he'd temporarily ceded his Timely editorship to Al Fago, and Lee would not re-assume his editorial duties until he got out of the army in 1945.
A total coincidence is the similarity of the goofy Englishman's name to that of real-life Polish SF-writer Stanislaw Lem, who would commence his literary career two years after this Timely tale was published.
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