The DC Multiverse is home to plenty a great battle. But DC is taking its arena up a notch and is now serving as the stage to the greatest fight fried chicken lovers have ever seen: Col. Sanders vs. Evil Col. Sanders.
This tie-in is called "The Colonel of Two Worlds."
KFC has teamed up with DC for a special one-shot issue from Tony Bedard and Tom Derenick. In the released preview, Captain Cold travels to Earth-3, which is home to Crime Syndicate of America, Justice League's villainous doppleganger, to team up with the evil version of Col. Sanders. They aim to launch a new criminal empire.
To give context to its content, here are a few things to enlighten you on the Colonel himself, the man in the trademark white suit and black string tie who pioneered Kentucky Friend Chicken's "finger-lickin'-good" secret recipe.
Col. Sanders's first restaurant was inside a gas station.
The place was called Sanders' Cafe, and it was across the street from a gas service station in the 1930s. Col. Sanders served chicken fried in an iron skillet. This restaurant was included in food critic Duncan Hines' road-food guide. It was here that Col. Sanders used pressure cookers to perfect his world-famous chicken coated in the secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices.
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Col. Sanders was not a military colonel.
He falsified his birth date in order to enlist in the U.S. Army in 1906, and served in Cuba for a few months before receiving an honorable discharge. He was issued an honorary colonel title by Kentucky Governor Ruby Laffoon in 1935, but it wasn't until he was granted a secondary honorary commission in 1949 that he began to embrace the title. He tried to "look the part" by growing facial hair and sporting a black frock coat and string tie. He soon changed into his signature look: a white suit to hide flour stains, and a bleached mustache and goatee to match his white hair.
Col. Sanders had a varied resume before making it big in the fried chicken business in the 60s.
As a lad, Col. Sanders worked as a farmhand and a streetcar conductor before toiling for railroad companies in the South. He studied law via correspondence and was able to practice in justice-of-the-peace courts in Arkansas. A courtroom brawl with a client ended his legal career. This, however, did not keep him from selling life insurance and mobile tires. Col. Sanders also operated a steamboat ferry that travelled the Ohio River between Kentucky and Indiana. While he was in Corbin, he even delivered babies. "There was nobody else to do it," he shared in his autobiography. "The husbands couldn't afford a doctor when their wives were pregnant."
New York Comic-Con goers can pick up a free copy between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. in Union Square on Oct. 9. For those who won't make it, the entire thing will be available online through Comixology on Oct 8.
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