"little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?

[George Thompson]

>
> Another query: Was there originally a cartoon or something with
> the stereotypical alien demand, "Take me to your leader ?"
>
I recollect one (or several) of a little green man saying to a dog (or
a fire hydrant) "Take me to your leader".
Not sure whether my memory is at fault, or whether there were two great
cartooning minds with but a single gag.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
Date: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:03 am
Subject: "little green men" / "take me to your leader" origin?

> Can anyone establish an early date for "little green men"? OED no
> have. I suspect it comes from the pulp sf days of the interwar
> period, because I've never heard of a UFO case that seriously
> reported "little green men" hopping from a landed saucer.
> I've known both these phrases since the late '50s.
>
> JL
>
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