"Cheese it, youse guys. It's Capt. Fairbairn!"

Back to the good major (he'd been promoted) spoken of in the last post. To recap: the hand-to-hand genius who designed the Shanghai Fighting Knifeand trained, among many others, Sgt. (later Capt.- He was commissioned to keep Wild Bill Donovan getting him back for the OSS) Dermot "Pat" O'Neill, ass-kicking instruction guru for the First Special Service Force. In the movie he (Jeremy Slate) famously kicks Claude Aiken's ass in my home town. All that being said, Major Fairbairn rated some recognition not available to every Tom, Dick or William: mention in a comic book.
The first pic is the cover of the first issue of this comic, regretably not the one in which Fairbairn is featured. This publication, produced by the Parent's Magazine Institution, was a 1940's comic intended to inspire proper values in our young folks. The next two pictures comprise the extent of Major Fairbairn's moment in the pop cuture limelight. What I personally enjoy is the depression-era "hoodlum" appearance of the Shanghai gangsters. Contrast it, along with the good Major's tecniques, with a photo, taken from "A Social History of the Machine Gun" by John Ellis, of the Shanghai authorities "taking care of" some gangsters circa 1949. Crips and Bloods, look out.