By 1943 Fawcett publications was the biggest comics rival to DC thanks in no small part to Republic pictures helping to make Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher as popular as DC's Superman and Batman and they recently introduced Mary Marvel to compete with DCs Wonder Woman (in Wow comics) and their own Superhero team with The Crime Crusaders Club (in Masters comics) to take on the Justice Society of America
However the partnership between Fawcett and Republic seemed to be fractured when C.C Beck got a call from William O'Sullivan.
O'Sullivan: What the hell we make a deal to sell your characters and you turn Wow comics into a girl's book!! When we were negotiating on Mr. Scarlet!
Beck (thinking fast): um you see, I don't know if you know about the uh lawsuit about Batman yeah well considering The pulp guys are suing over similar names and costume we didn't want to draw attention to our Masked crime fighting lawyer.
O'Sullivan: So that's what those Stooges at Columbia are panicking about he he, OK we will give it time to blow over but I want Scarlet to be on the cover by the time the trial blows over or we will give it to someone else. (Slams the phone)
C.C Beck hung up the phone truth was Mary Marvel was Wows cover girl because the Marvel family was selling comics but now he needed to bring Mr. Scarlet back without drawing attention to the lawsuit in motion maybe the creators would have an idea. Let's hope Jack doesn't have to much on his plate