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 the following: A wide variety of popular media, including films, television, theatre, and advertising have referred to, parodied or pastiched "The Mikado" or its songs, and phrases from the libretto have entered popular usage in the English language. Some of the best-known of these cultural influences are described below. Quotes from "The Mikado" were used in letters to the police by the Zodiac Killer, who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay area between 1966 and 1970. A second-season (1998) episode of the TV show "Millennium", titled "The Mikado", is based on the Zodiac case. "The Mikado"