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 Mikado This was adapted as a film in 2010. Film and television references to "The Mikado" include the climax of the 1978 film "Foul Play", which takes place during a performance of "The Mikado". In the 2010 episode "Robots Versus Wrestlers" of the TV sitcom "How I Met Your Mother", at a high-society party, Marshall strikes an antique Chinese gong. The host rebukes him: "Young man, that gong is a 500-year-old relic that hasn't been struck since W. S. Gilbert hit it at the London premiere of "The Mikado" in 1885!" Marshall quips, "His wife's a 500-year-old relic that hasn't been