Keeping in mind that this 1941 story (published before Pearl Harbor) appeared only 23 years after the end of World War I (considered the War to End All Wars) and taught extensively in American schools, and you might understand the significance of his nom du guerre.
The color scheme seen in the mural is something of a compromise!
It ties in to Flanders Field as explained HERE!
DC purchased all of Quality's assets when the company folded in 1956.
They continued publishing Blackhawk without interruption thru 1968 (as we showed HERE), but held off on using any of the other characters until they revamped/revived Plastic Man in 1966 as we showed HERE.
In the 1970s, with the development of the 100-Page Super-Spectacular format, they began reprinting some of Quality's Golden Age characters including Quicksilver (renamed "Max Mercury" since Marvel has a super-speedster named Quicksilver since 1963), Black Condor, The Ray, Doll Man, and Phantom Lady, among others.
This led to a revival of the Quality characters in an annual JLA-JSA "Crisis on..." story involving "Earth X", where the Nazis had won World War II...and killed the Blackhawks and Plastic Man (and, presumably the rest of the Quality heroes and heroines except for these six!)
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Art by Nick Cardy |
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Art by Ernie Chua/Chan |
But Ghost of Flanders didn't even make it to a group shot in any of those stories!