FW they're W

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 1 04:24:45 UTC 2007


Thank you for the kind words, John. But I wasn't confused; I was
certain.:-) I was confused only as to whether I had read the story
while I was still in elementary school - 1949-1950 - or during the
time that I was in high school - 1950-1954.

-Wilson

On 1/31/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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>         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.
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> 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.
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> -Wilson
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> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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