The choice if the name, "Bubanassar", posing as an Assyrian or Babylonian name, makes this appear to more likely be a parody of Utnapishtim, the Akkadian "Noah" (who was really based on an earlier Sumerian "Noah"), rather than The Hebrew later version (a way to relate the story to history, and distance Disney Comics from potentially being accused of espousing, or possibly offending members of currently existing religions).
That’s certainly one way to look at it, but I doubt it. Noah (so named), his ark and Mount Ararat (not Nisir) are all important parts of the story.
On Joan of Arc: There's an indication in "Who's Who in Entenhausen" by Johnny Grote that someone is dressed up as Joan of Arc in the costume ball in the Wax Museum story in WDC 231. I don't have a copy of that story; does someone want to check to see if Joan of Arc is named? Grote indicates she is. Also, amusingly, he indicates that in the German version the costumed person is identified as Siegfried! Well, Siegfried of the Ring Cycle can certainly have shoulder-length hair, and the individual does not have prominent breasts, but the facial features do look pretty feminine to me.
On Joan of Arc: There's an indication in "Who's Who in Entenhausen" by Johnny Grote that someone is dressed up as Joan of Arc in the costume ball in the Wax Museum story in WDC 231. I don't have a copy of that story; does someone want to check to see if Joan of Arc is named? Grote indicates she is. Also, amusingly, he indicates that in the German version the costumed person is identified as Siegfried! Well, Siegfried of the Ring Cycle can certainly have shoulder-length hair, and the individual does not have prominent breasts, but the facial features do look pretty feminine to me.
Could be a woman "playing" a male character. It's not unheard-of in carnival-type situations. For the opposite direction, the joke of this 1965 strip relies on HDL dressing up as Lady Godiva (and her horse) at a masked ball.
On Joan of Arc: There's an indication in "Who's Who in Entenhausen" by Johnny Grote that someone is dressed up as Joan of Arc in the costume ball in the Wax Museum story in WDC 231. I don't have a copy of that story; does someone want to check to see if Joan of Arc is named? Grote indicates she is. Also, amusingly, he indicates that in the German version the costumed person is identified as Siegfried! Well, Siegfried of the Ring Cycle can certainly have shoulder-length hair, and the individual does not have prominent breasts, but the facial features do look pretty feminine to me.
Could be a woman "playing" a male character. It's not unheard-of in carnival-type situations. For the opposite direction, the joke of this 1965 strip relies on HDL dressing up as Lady Godiva (and her horse) at a masked ball.
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