FW they're W

[Baker, John]

        Weird Fantasy was published by EC, which also published Mad, and
"Henry and His Goon Child" was drawn by Harvey Kurtzman, the leading
artist on the early Mad, so the confusion is entirely understandable.


John Baker



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1950? Given that that was 57 years ago, I shouldn't have expected that I
could fully rely upon only my memory. But, WTF? The only thing that
beats a try is a failure. Close, but no cigar.

-Wilson

On 1/31/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>         According to
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http://fourrealities.blogspot.com/2006/04/ec-henry-and-his-goon-child-ku
rtzman.html and other web pages, "Henry and His Goon Child" ran in
> Weird Fantasy in 1950, which would have been two years before Mad
began publication in 1952.
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> John Baker
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> Gonzo - HDAS: 1977.
>
> Gonzo, by James Booker, Duke label recording, 1960.
>
> Goon-child - HDAS: no cites bet. 1943 and 1975.
>
> At some time between 1950(?) and 1955, in the original Mad Magazine,
> Tales Calculated to Drive You MAD, there appeared a story entitled
> "Goon(-)Child," in which an evil, lazy bastard of a mad scientist
> builds an anthropoid robot to handle all of his scut work. He names
> this robot "Goon(-)Child." Unfortunately, the mad scientist has built
> better than he realizes and Goon(-)Child becomes self-aware. It then
> takes over, making the mad scientist the slave and demanding that,
> from that moment on, he address it as "MISTER Goon(-)Child!"
>
> -Wilson

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