Nice idea, and not necessarily 'pie in the sky'. Did anybody ever find out what happened to him in the end? Perhaps he's still alive somewhere in South America, along with all the other aging crooks and war criminals!
Bearing in mind the number of artists he swindled over the years it's possible that one of them would be only too happy to produce a suitable caricature on the understanding that he'd be remembered that way in all future histories of the medium until the end of time. Perhaps something along the lines of Marvin Stein's famous image of Ben Oda, Joe Simon, Joe Genola, Mort Meskin and Jack Kirby from the cover of the American
Justice Traps the Guilty no.56 would fit the bill...?
http://i53.tinypic.com/24mb4g6.jpg
(In fact it occurs to me that somebody probably
did use him in this way as the model for a crook or unscrupulous publisher. The problem is that there are so few people left who'd be able to spot the likeness after all these years!)
- Phil Rushton