The scoreboard drawn by the cartoonist (Max Fleischer) during the fencing duel labels the dueling parties as "Clown" vs. "Me". While he is not named in the film, the inkwell clown character had already become known as Ko-Ko by the time of this cartoon's release (as evidenced by the film's title).
Ko-Ko was nameless for the first several years of "Out of the Inkwell" cartoons, known only as "the clown" before being dubbed Ko-Ko in 1923 (with the first "Inkwell" cartoons to bear the clown's name released in 1925).
Ko-Ko was nameless for the first several years of "Out of the Inkwell" cartoons, known only as "the clown" before being dubbed Ko-Ko in 1923 (with the first "Inkwell" cartoons to bear the clown's name released in 1925).