Hinduism did have a murderous cult who were active for about 450 years named the Thuggees. Thuggee members worshipped Kali and sacrificed victims by strangulation. They would also rob them. The name Thuggee itself gave English the word ‘thug’.
Sarpan You know what? I agree, that was probably what the writer was trying to explain - the Kali worshipping Thuggee cult that was comprised of Muslims, Hindi and other religions. It just wasn’t spelled out well. Good catch.
I find that if you want to know the inspiration for a comic book story, just look at the movies of the time. In this case, Gunga Din, which features the Thuggee.
ComicTropes The Thuggee were also known as the Deceivers. Largely because they could infiltrate a caravan or other group that way. Not all that different from the Hashishien, ninja or spec ops.
Mr. Whiskers, walking the night streets, thinking to himself Rorschach style. Nobody else had the courage to dress as an old man, so he had to do it..Couple of months later all the teens on twitter posting quotes by Mr. Whiskers, dressing up like old men, doing tik toks..
"Death, the worst of the curses." I laughed really hard at that, and with not an ounce of shame. Absolutely love your channel and wish you the very best 😁
"Hi, you caught me texting while driving!" That one cracked me up. I appreciate your even-handed consideration of these comics, and your careful consideration of comic topics. It's far better than some other comic channels that consist of some guy screaming at the viewer about comics. You're great!!!
I'm a Hindu. I was born one. I assure you dear viewers,The Diamond Of Taron isn't real. We haven't sacrificed anyone since the 30s so we're pretty peaceful these days. We're happy,tolerant pagans.
Golden age comics are alwaya so great to learn! Such a different time in comics. Can only imagine what they would do with these characters now. Have a huge crossover event linking the universes of Hip Knox, Captain Fearless, Sergeant Spook, and Mister Whiskers. What a team up it would be
There was an issue of Animal Man during Grant Morrison's legendary (and very strange) run where he ends up in a Hades-like limbo of lost comic characters who have been written out of continuity and are waiting to be reinvented, where you encounter characters like the Red Bee and the Gay Blade. It's therefore canon that there _is_ a place where these forgotten Golden Age characters hang out together. (Since Grant Morrison wrote himself into the story and had a discussion with Animal Man where he not only broke the fourth wall, he pissed on it and danced on the rubble, Grant Morrison himself technically became canon. They actually killed him off in an issue of Suicide Squad.)
If there would have been one more story we would have gotten the secret to his gimmick: he was actually a cat named Mr. Whiskers who poses as a human. When the statue fell he used one his nine lives to take out the criminals.
It was commonly believed by Europeans right up into the 19th century that Muslims worshipped a god called Baphomet. (The Templars were accused of having been corrupted into Baphomet-worship, in fact, and was the excuse used for their destruction.) In the early 20th century it would have been an easy mistake for an ignorant white man in the West to make to connect Baphomet-worship and Hinduism.
That's a character that would be easy to re-imagine as something less stupid. A master of disguise who put on various costume to investigate. The old man could be a costume he put more often for one reason or another.
I don't know how my son and I missed this video, but we DID. Having said that, you HAVE to go back to this style intro. We laughed at these every time! 😆 keep up the good work!
Man you should do a video on DC's Tarantula, the original Spiderman that precedes Marvel's Spider-Man by almost 20 years. Anyways amazing video as always
@@Clay3613 He was the first wall crawling, web slinging vigilante to be called Spiderman and yes he deserves the spotlight like countless other obscure characters that the people don't know of
So glad I found this channel! Satisfies my old comic book passion. Had $300 a month habit at one time. A wife and kids took care of that!😂😂😂 Thank you again for post these and always being interesting!!!!
Now, a real all-star team-up would be Mr. Whiskers and Madame Fatal. The two would use their weird dress-up gimmick to sneak around as a "couple" (a couple of two men in costumes). Heck, Whiskers could call "her" Brandy.
Yo Chris I really appreciate your channel, I find myself anticipating each new episode, keep it up brother. I’ll keep reading comics (my faves on the bookshelf at least) peace
Hah! Great opening "oh hi!" Skit. I love the timing of the tire skid & the crash sfx lines up to spider-Chris under a pole of metal & pouring water. Sooo... I'm gonna choose to believe it was intentional. 😁
I love your openings! They are always really funny! And I also love when you highlight these silly forgotten Golden Age -heroes-... well, maybe calling Mr Whiskers or Captain Fearless ”heroes” is a bit too much so let’s say Golden Age characters
I love stupid golden age characters on one hand what were they thinking? But you don't seen ideas like these anymore mostly because they're dumb but I can't say that some aren't enjoyable.
Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, also came up with elderly Granny Gumshoe, whose nemeses included Dr. Crud and his fleet of flying meat slicers, a murdering ventriloquist's dummy, the boneless escape-artist Mr. Worm and a guy who had a voodoo doll of the entire planet. She would go after 'em with baseball bats, hammers and axes.
I took the name, "Mr. Whiskers" and the idea of a disguise expert who passes himself off as an old man, and came up with this: he disguises himself as a doddering, senile, half-deaf old man, and spies on various criminals in those disguises. Then he helps bust them as his regular self, and sometimes, when the criminals try to get rough, they find out that the helpless old man isn't.
I need to find some good scans of this, remove the colors, have it re-colored by a good colorist and completely rewirte all dialogue just to see what we can do with it^^
Hey Chris, I started watching your videos a couple of days ago (before watching the new spider-man movie and it reignites my comics love again, sorry not sorry) and I noticed that your videos have kind of a 80s~90s TV shows' vibe, is it intentional? Because I'm loving it.
I am not going to lie. I like the concept of using whisker as a name. "Whisker," sounds like one of those strange names we hear people having out there that could exist. I heard stranger. "Hornbuckle." "Dr. Strange Love."
Concerning the password: yes, it's a dumb password. But in this era, assuming the ignorance of outsiders was a common basis for security schemes in all sorts of fiction (and probably in real life).
Dress up as Mr. Whiskers as often as needed? Ha! I'll dress up as Mr. Whiskers even MORE often than needed! As often as possible is more like it! I'd love to see Alan Moore reboot this character in a Twilight of the Superheroes style revamp. He's now an old man who either dresses as an even OLDER man. Or, he dresses as a young guy, only to surprise people that he's actually a senior citizen. At least until he has an existential crisis, nearing the end of his life. Policy changes have made it so he was kicked out of the agency and lost his pension. He tries to go back into acting with his disguise kit, but his "method acting" gets taken overboard so that no one wants to work with him. He ends up out of work, homeless, and on heroin. Or maybe he's just an old drunk. He's in bad health and has lost his teeth and hair. He's forced to live on as a flesh and blood ironic joke; a bald man nicknamed Mr. Whiskers. Alopecia has even made it so he can't grow a beard or mustache. He now uses his disguise kit (what's left of it) to try and hide the effects of drug and alcohol use for when he panhandles drug money on the street. One day, a group of LDS Chruch type men going door to door see him in an alley, and offer him a bag of food. He accepts. They then give him a pamphlet on their religion. Turns out they aren't Mormon at all. They're from a modernized version of the cult from this story. The same way there were one Inquisitors who tortured people in certain real life religions, there were once a small sect of bad seeds, but the current strain of followers aren't like that at all. Still, in his aging drug addled mind, they're still a threat. He plans on going on in a blaze of glory by bombing their church with a TNT vest. He's stopped by one of his old partners in the FBI. They try to get him to turn his life around. They offer for him to stay with them. And he turns everything around, at first. Until he learns years of drug use have ruined his organs and he's dying. He puts on the Mr. WHISKERS outfit one last time, before walking into the Hudson River. The camera pans out and we never see if he actually drowns or not but are left to assume he did. The end. This will be made. It must be made. It is now my life goal. Someone get Alan Moore on the phone. Tell him I have a pitch.
Another great episode and all this fantastic art work makes me wish I had some kinda artistic skill. But I do have an idea for you could look at if you do another Frank Miller piece, Dynamites run of Robocop: Last Stand in particular. Its not the worst example of the Millerness but he has a habit of either writing a great robo story or a really bad one. This is the latter.
Oh his name is Mr Whiskers and he looks like an old guy? Well an old man hero could be neat, you don’t get many old- oh wait, he just dresses up as an old dude, why?
I hate to bash to a fellow comics UA-camr, but I think by the actor giving up disguise kit to join the FBI, I think they mean he gave it up in private life. Community theater runs in the family. So growing up, we knew a guy who was a cop. When he got promoted to Undercover field officer, he was told to give up the stage just on the off chance a drug dealer or something just happened to see him in a play or something. A few years later, he got promoted to Desk Sargent. He was allowed to return to the stage and he found that because he spent so much time inventing on the details on the fly for his covers he was now a much more skilled improv actor/comic.
Mr. Whiskers should have had a team-up with Madame Strange. An actor who dressed up as an old woman. They could have pretended to be an old couple out on a stroll and beat up muggers.
I have been binge watching these videos about useless golden age heroes! I want a comic where all these golden age heroes team up for a suicide squad type mission. In the first few pages every member of the squad would be killed and the rest of the issue would just be the authorities trying to identify the bodies.
That big scene of the cult's idol getting pushed over on them is such a highlight moment that they preview it on the opening page... was this before or after Batman did the exact same thing in one of his early issues?
Kinda reminds of that episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where two aliens want to use Muriel's body to invade a military base, because the military wouldn't arrest a old lady.
Are you familiar with Madame Fatal? He/She is a Golden Age hero from Quality Comics. Madame Fatal is basically a cross-dressing version of Mr. Whiskers. A male wealthy industrialist with a love of theater dons an old lady disguise to fight crime. When DC Comics bought the intellectual property of Quality Comics in the 50s, Madame Fatal was actually incorporated into the DC Universe. The character's last apearance was in 2012.
Hinduism did have a murderous cult who were active for about 450 years named the Thuggees. Thuggee members worshipped Kali and sacrificed victims by strangulation. They would also rob them. The name Thuggee itself gave English the word ‘thug’.
Sarpan You know what? I agree, that was probably what the writer was trying to explain - the Kali worshipping Thuggee cult that was comprised of Muslims, Hindi and other religions. It just wasn’t spelled out well. Good catch.
ComicTropes They were also referenced in Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom.
I find that if you want to know the inspiration for a comic book story, just look at the movies of the time. In this case, Gunga Din, which features the Thuggee.
ComicTropes The Thuggee were also known as the Deceivers. Largely because they could infiltrate a caravan or other group that way. Not all that different from the Hashishien, ninja or spec ops.
You not seen Temple of Doom? That is basically a documentary of Kali worshippers! (Joke)
I’m waiting for a Batman/Mr Whiskers Team Up!
I thought this was going to be about a crime-fighting cat based on the title!
I am very disappointed that there is no crime fighting cat.
I felt let down by that same thing.
I named my Xbox gamertag: "Weaponcat" once, but my friends all made fun of me so I had to change it! : P
That's the gritty reboot of Toonces.
I was hoping it would be the cartoon cat from Last Action Hero.
It's funny because he could dress up as different people but he just does Mr. Whiskers.
That could be kind of cool if he was always changing faces. A master of disguise, kind if like a heroic Chameleon.
This is begging for a gritty reboot.
Found those scans I mentioned. I'll dark and gritty reboot that alright (Don't expect anything, I'll probably change my mind in a few hours) :p
I would throw good money at that.
A gritty KITTY reboot. It LITTERally writes itself!
Let's just gritty reboot(tm) every old as fuck obscure character who nobody remembers.
I can't wait until the gritty reboot of Millie The Model.
Mr. Whiskers, walking the night streets, thinking to himself Rorschach style. Nobody else had the courage to dress as an old man, so he had to do it..Couple of months later all the teens on twitter posting quotes by Mr. Whiskers, dressing up like old men, doing tik toks..
I've got to admit, after almost 50 years of reading comics, I had never heard of this guy. Thanks for the intro ... I think :-)
"Death, the worst of the curses." I laughed really hard at that, and with not an ounce of shame.
Absolutely love your channel and wish you the very best 😁
"Hi, you caught me texting while driving!" That one cracked me up. I appreciate your even-handed consideration of these comics, and your careful consideration of comic topics. It's far better than some other comic channels that consist of some guy screaming at the viewer about comics. You're great!!!
I'm a Hindu. I was born one. I assure you dear viewers,The Diamond Of Taron isn't real. We haven't sacrificed anyone since the 30s so we're pretty peaceful these days. We're happy,tolerant pagans.
These ridiculous Golden Age character stories are hilarious! Keep 'em coming! Also, don't text and drive again!
I hope this becomes a regular ongoing series of silly superheroes.
Wait - one of my neighbor lady's cats got a superhero made out of them? Wow...
Golden age comics are alwaya so great to learn! Such a different time in comics. Can only imagine what they would do with these characters now. Have a huge crossover event linking the universes of Hip Knox, Captain Fearless, Sergeant Spook, and Mister Whiskers. What a team up it would be
There was an issue of Animal Man during Grant Morrison's legendary (and very strange) run where he ends up in a Hades-like limbo of lost comic characters who have been written out of continuity and are waiting to be reinvented, where you encounter characters like the Red Bee and the Gay Blade. It's therefore canon that there _is_ a place where these forgotten Golden Age characters hang out together.
(Since Grant Morrison wrote himself into the story and had a discussion with Animal Man where he not only broke the fourth wall, he pissed on it and danced on the rubble, Grant Morrison himself technically became canon. They actually killed him off in an issue of Suicide Squad.)
The silly Golden Age heroes videos are my favorites.
Your vids on golden age superheroes are just fantastic. Truly entertaining and quite amusing. Thanks Chris!
If there would have been one more story we would have gotten the secret to his gimmick: he was actually a cat named Mr. Whiskers who poses as a human. When the statue fell he used one his nine lives to take out the criminals.
I accidentally sent a prayer to Mr. Whiskers one time.
it was answered by Mr Am of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip.
and very enigmatically, one might add.
That was a letter to Santa Claus
No mention of the fact that the cultists yell ‘Allah! Allah!’ Despite supposedly being Hindu? lol
at 05:48 to be exact
Conflating Islam and Hinduism is almost a trope of Golden Age comics, especially the Hashashim (Muslim) and the Thuggees (Hindu).
Strange though that this comic villianized the Indians, most adventure comics treated them with more respect than the Chinese or Africans.
It was commonly believed by Europeans right up into the 19th century that Muslims worshipped a god called Baphomet. (The Templars were accused of having been corrupted into Baphomet-worship, in fact, and was the excuse used for their destruction.) In the early 20th century it would have been an easy mistake for an ignorant white man in the West to make to connect Baphomet-worship and Hinduism.
Now THAT's obscure: and i have read thousand of comics, literally.
That's a character that would be easy to re-imagine as something less stupid. A master of disguise who put on various costume to investigate. The old man could be a costume he put more often for one reason or another.
Characters like these ought to replace all the characters in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
It’s not very often I come across one of your older videos I haven’t seen. This masterpiece however somehow passed me by
I like that your channel is growing so much recently
aldi404 he works so hard on these videos. I love it!!!!
I don't know how my son and I missed this video, but we DID. Having said that, you HAVE to go back to this style intro. We laughed at these every time! 😆 keep up the good work!
Best “you caught me...” intro yet.
I have been binging your channel like crazy. You have soooo much content here and it's all so entertaining. Good stuff.
Man you should do a video on DC's Tarantula, the original Spiderman that precedes Marvel's Spider-Man by almost 20 years. Anyways amazing video as always
Other than having a "web-gun", he's nothing like Spider-Man.
@@Clay3613 He was the first wall crawling, web slinging vigilante to be called Spiderman and yes he deserves the spotlight like countless other obscure characters that the people don't know of
And all these guy pretty always look the same. Slick black hair, tall, built, broad shoulders, strong jaw. Exactly like ... Superman. Thx.
Man, I'm addicted to your weird Golden Age Comics stuff. Funny shit. Sick. Laughing my arse off.
So glad I found this channel! Satisfies my old comic book passion. Had $300 a month habit at one time. A wife and kids took care of that!😂😂😂 Thank you again for post these and always being interesting!!!!
Now, a real all-star team-up would be Mr. Whiskers and Madame Fatal. The two would use their weird dress-up gimmick to sneak around as a "couple" (a couple of two men in costumes). Heck, Whiskers could call "her" Brandy.
great vid Chris! love your content, can't wait for those inktober streams if your doing that again.
Sounds like the name for someone's cat.
Yo Chris I really appreciate your channel, I find myself anticipating each new episode, keep it up brother. I’ll keep reading comics (my faves on the bookshelf at least) peace
Hah! Great opening "oh hi!" Skit. I love the timing of the tire skid & the crash sfx lines up to spider-Chris under a pole of metal & pouring water. Sooo... I'm gonna choose to believe it was intentional. 😁
I really enjoy these videos. Thank you.
Mista Whiskas: I'm a guy who dresses up as an old man.
Madam Fatal: Hold my purse, bro.
Your video had me cracking up with laughter. Thanks, I needed that. More please.
I love your openings! They are always really funny! And I also love when you highlight these silly forgotten Golden Age -heroes-... well, maybe calling Mr Whiskers or Captain Fearless ”heroes” is a bit too much so let’s say Golden Age characters
Love your goofy character profiles
I wish you'd do a vid on Hillman's The Heap.
I love stupid golden age characters on one hand what were they thinking? But you don't seen ideas like these anymore mostly because they're dumb but I can't say that some aren't enjoyable.
An old man detective who kicks ass would have been much cooler than an FBI agent who disguises as an old man...
Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, also came up with elderly Granny Gumshoe, whose nemeses included Dr. Crud and his fleet of flying meat slicers, a murdering ventriloquist's dummy, the boneless escape-artist Mr. Worm and a guy who had a voodoo doll of the entire planet. She would go after 'em with baseball bats, hammers and axes.
That is seriously the FUCKING. BEST. INTRO. EVER.
I laughed hard.
My personal favorite from golden age is the Spirit, although I also like Golden age Wonder Woman as well.
Great episode as usual
You are always a blast to watch, and yes, it was a Gundam lol
Love your channel!
Greetings from Brazil dude, I really wanted Eduardo to win hahahaha !!! nice show as always !!Thank you
Great episode!
I took the name, "Mr. Whiskers" and the idea of a disguise expert who passes himself off as an old man, and came up with this: he disguises himself as a doddering, senile, half-deaf old man, and spies on various criminals in those disguises. Then he helps bust them as his regular self, and sometimes, when the criminals try to get rough, they find out that the helpless old man isn't.
YAAAAY! I won \o/ ! Great, very funny episode!
Great work on the intro! 👍
I'd love to see you cover the Legion Great Darkness Saga.
I need to find some good scans of this, remove the colors, have it re-colored by a good colorist and completely rewirte all dialogue just to see what we can do with it^^
This is the text I sent my sister before she died in a car crash:
"Do a barrel roll"
Is still my favourite meme
Hey Chris, I started watching your videos a couple of days ago (before watching the new spider-man movie and it reignites my comics love again, sorry not sorry) and I noticed that your videos have kind of a 80s~90s TV shows' vibe, is it intentional? Because I'm loving it.
My new favorite hero!!! Thanks!
I lost it over the FBI application sketch!
Can’t wait for the Mr Whiskers movie franchise.
I am not going to lie. I like the concept of using whisker as a name. "Whisker," sounds like one of those strange names we hear people having out there that could exist. I heard stranger. "Hornbuckle." "Dr. Strange Love."
love the invisible phone
First thing that came to mind seeing the thumbnail was the Auntie Donna Mr Whiskers song
Fantastic as always dear friend
In spite of the siliness, I think overall the art is solid.
Concerning the password: yes, it's a dumb password. But in this era, assuming the ignorance of outsiders was a common basis for security schemes in all sorts of fiction (and probably in real life).
Dress up as Mr. Whiskers as often as needed? Ha! I'll dress up as Mr. Whiskers even MORE often than needed! As often as possible is more like it!
I'd love to see Alan Moore reboot this character in a Twilight of the Superheroes style revamp. He's now an old man who either dresses as an even OLDER man. Or, he dresses as a young guy, only to surprise people that he's actually a senior citizen. At least until he has an existential crisis, nearing the end of his life. Policy changes have made it so he was kicked out of the agency and lost his pension. He tries to go back into acting with his disguise kit, but his "method acting" gets taken overboard so that no one wants to work with him. He ends up out of work, homeless, and on heroin. Or maybe he's just an old drunk. He's in bad health and has lost his teeth and hair. He's forced to live on as a flesh and blood ironic joke; a bald man nicknamed Mr. Whiskers. Alopecia has even made it so he can't grow a beard or mustache. He now uses his disguise kit (what's left of it) to try and hide the effects of drug and alcohol use for when he panhandles drug money on the street. One day, a group of LDS Chruch type men going door to door see him in an alley, and offer him a bag of food. He accepts. They then give him a pamphlet on their religion. Turns out they aren't Mormon at all. They're from a modernized version of the cult from this story. The same way there were one Inquisitors who tortured people in certain real life religions, there were once a small sect of bad seeds, but the current strain of followers aren't like that at all. Still, in his aging drug addled mind, they're still a threat. He plans on going on in a blaze of glory by bombing their church with a TNT vest. He's stopped by one of his old partners in the FBI. They try to get him to turn his life around. They offer for him to stay with them. And he turns everything around, at first. Until he learns years of drug use have ruined his organs and he's dying. He puts on the Mr. WHISKERS outfit one last time, before walking into the Hudson River. The camera pans out and we never see if he actually drowns or not but are left to assume he did. The end.
This will be made. It must be made. It is now my life goal. Someone get Alan Moore on the phone. Tell him I have a pitch.
Love your videos dude 👍
Another great episode and all this fantastic art work makes me wish I had some kinda artistic skill.
But I do have an idea for you could look at if you do another Frank Miller piece, Dynamites run of Robocop: Last Stand in particular.
Its not the worst example of the Millerness but he has a habit of either writing a great robo story or a really bad one.
This is the latter.
When I heard the name Mr. Whiskers it made me think of the show Brandy and Mr. Whiskers! 😂
LOOK OUT! Here comes MR. BARBER!!!!! 😳😳😳😳😳💈💈💈💈💈
When I hear Clay, all I can think of is, "Noooooo! Your one of them!"
That inro was fantastic tho
10/10
That car didn’t have mirrors my dude
Oh his name is Mr Whiskers and he looks like an old guy? Well an old man hero could be neat, you don’t get many old- oh wait, he just dresses up as an old dude, why?
I hate to bash to a fellow comics UA-camr, but I think by the actor giving up disguise kit to join the FBI, I think they mean he gave it up in private life. Community theater runs in the family. So growing up, we knew a guy who was a cop. When he got promoted to Undercover field officer, he was told to give up the stage just on the off chance a drug dealer or something just happened to see him in a play or something. A few years later, he got promoted to Desk Sargent. He was allowed to return to the stage and he found that because he spent so much time inventing on the details on the fly for his covers he was now a much more skilled improv actor/comic.
Mr. Whiskers sounds like someone's pet cat.
Mr. Whiskers should have had a team-up with Madame Strange. An actor who dressed up as an old woman. They could have pretended to be an old couple out on a stroll and beat up muggers.
I'd love to see you do a video on golden age character, Gumbo Galahad!
Do think you’ll review the Elvira comic or the Mst3k comic ?
Brandy and Mr. Whiskers? Haha!
Nah, not a fetish for dressing up as a old man, my man just wants to eat on the senior menu
LOL. So many easier ways to comp that car scene.
I have been binge watching these videos about useless golden age heroes! I want a comic where all these golden age heroes team up for a suicide squad type mission. In the first few pages every member of the squad would be killed and the rest of the issue would just be the authorities trying to identify the bodies.
At some point Jim Clay becomes the disguise for Mr. Whiskers.
Greatest intro ever :-) :-) :-) !
I once had a cat named Mr. Whiskers.
Lol, great video. Was expecting a Cat superhero though.
You need to write/draw and review a comic team up starring Mr. Whiskers and the Nightmare and Sleepy.
the mech from ready player one.
owie
Great vid. I wish you life, the best of curses.
"Mr. Whiskers", that's a cat name if I ever heard one, even by the year in which this comic was made
That big scene of the cult's idol getting pushed over on them is such a highlight moment that they preview it on the opening page... was this before or after Batman did the exact same thing in one of his early issues?
random question. What do you think of the new upcoming Superior Spiderman?
I would like to see you do best golden age heroes who are forgotten.
Love these intros 😂👌
Kinda reminds of that episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog where two aliens want to use Muriel's body to invade a military base, because the military wouldn't arrest a old lady.
I use a cane and have a beard so it tends to limit my Halloween costume options. Something tells me I just found a real doozy.
5:00 I mean even Indiana Jones got that wrong
Are you familiar with Madame Fatal? He/She is a Golden Age hero from Quality Comics. Madame Fatal is basically a cross-dressing version of Mr. Whiskers. A male wealthy industrialist with a love of theater dons an old lady disguise to fight crime. When DC Comics bought the intellectual property of Quality Comics in the 50s, Madame Fatal was actually incorporated into the DC Universe. The character's last apearance was in 2012.