Why, if everything is like it is, do so many things seem ersatz, phoney. Jerome Squalor first appears in "The Ersatz Elevator" as the husband of Esme Squalor. Techniques for replacing strategic materials with ersatz substitutes have become highly important. Dandelion root served as a supplement or Ersatz good when coffee beans were scarce. Ordered as "Ersatz Braunschweig", "Admiral Graf Spee" replaced the reserve battleship . Murdock later discovered the ersatz Daredevil is his friend Danny Rand, the superhero Iron Fist. As a young teenager, he became a drummer for a Cambridge punk band, Ersatz. He was teamed with Calvin once more as a kind of ersatz Laurel and Hardy. It combines ersatz western scoring, source cues, and electronic music. Design work on the first new light cruiser, ordered as ""Ersatz Niobe"", began in 1921. In The Ersatz Elevator, Klaus helped Violet and Sunny find out what V.F.D means. It began the development of ersatz raw materials. "Dresden" was ordered under the contract name "Ersatz" . The displacement for the "Ersatz Monarch" class was to be per ship. This made for an "ersatz" prisoner uniform.