This is "My Name It Ain't Nothin'," a look at when comic books guest star celebrities, but their names are changed so as to avoid any legal problems.

Today, based on suggestions from readers David B. and Michael S., I take a look at when Groucho Marx's character, Rufus T. Hackstabber was joined in teaming up with Shang-Chi with a character who is essentially W.C. Fields!

As I wrote about recently, Groucho Marx helped out Shang-Chi as a taxi driver named Rufus T. Hackstabber.

In Master of Kung-Fu #52 (by Doug Moench and Keith Pollard), Rufus shows up again as Shang-Chi is drawn to Morocco under reports that Fu Manchu might be operating there...

Shang-Chi is shocked to run into a New York City cab driver in Morocco, and he insists that Rufus explain.

It turns out that he came here to meet up with his cousin, Quigley J. Warmflash, who is a bit of an underworld figure here in Morocco, dealing in the import and export business. And sure enough, when we meet Warmflash...

He is essentially W.C. Fields, the classic vaudeville and then film star from the early 20th Century, who was known for his drinking and his acerbic personality (did he really put on his tombstone, "All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia"? Find out in this old Legends Revealed that I did).

We also meet Warmflash's daughter, Dinah...

Warmflash believes that some bad guys are after a specific artifact that he recently sold. He can't say what it is that they are after (at least that's what he tells Rufus and Shang-Chi).

Tiger-Claw, a foe that Shang-Chi had fought against in Rufus' first appearance, is the guy behind the attempted theft (so it turns out that Shang-Chi didn't even have a reason for being in Morocco, since his evil father, Fu Manchu, wasn't even there) and it turns out that they were after a specific artifact that supposedly gives you eternal life...

It turned out to be nothing. At the end of the issue, Shang-Chi remarks to himself that Rufus must have some crazy family members (an allusion to the Marx Brothers)...

Fun stuff.

Thanks to David and Michael for the suggestion!

If anyone else has a suggestion for a future My Name It Ain't Nuthin', drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!