Mikado (comics) pattern, and the Question tracked him down. Their conversation touched Dr. Spaulding deeply, and he injected himself with a poison intended for the Question. By the time the Question had recovered from the Mikado's opiate injection, the Mikado had disappeared completely. He has not appeared since then. The Mikado's name was taken from that of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera of the same name, and his chant is a line of a song sung by The Mikado, the Emperor of Japan, in Act II. The name of his alter ego was taken from the Groucho Marx character, Captain Spaulding. Marx
The Hot Mikado (1939 production) including Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, produced by Cheryl Crawford, played for one week in 1941 at the Maplewood Theater, in Maplewood, New Jersey. In the 1980s, disappointed that they could not find much of the script and arrangements for "The Hot Mikado", writer David H. Bell and musician Rob Bowman created a new jazzy adaptation, "Hot Mikado", that has been produced regularly since 1986. The Hot Mikado (1939 production) The Hot Mikado was a musical theatre adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado" with an African-American cast. It was first produced by Mike Todd on Broadway in 1939. It starred Bill