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 Clear Word College Press of Southern Adventist University and sold in Church-owned Adventist Book Centers. Though "The Clear Word" is not officially endorsed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it is now being printed by the Review and Herald Publishing Association. Blanco originally wrote "The Clear Word" as a devotional exercise for himself. After friends and family saw what he did, they encouraged him to publish it. The New Testament part was first published and readers widely received and encouraged him to continue paraphrasing the whole Bible. It is considered a free paraphrase of the Bible: In the preface Blanco explains precisely what