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
Hot Mikado groups and high schools have performed the show in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Canada. Casting is intended to be interracial, with the Mikado, Katisha and Pooh-Bah specifically singing in African-American musical styles. Hot Mikado Hot Mikado is a musical comedy, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado", adapted by David H. Bell (book and lyrics) and Rob Bowman (orchestrations and arrangements). After researching the 1939 Broadway musical, "The Hot Mikado", and being disappointed at the amount of surviving material that they could find, Bell and Bowman created a new adaptation, "Hot Mikado". "Not much remains, however,