FW they're W

[Baker, John]

        According to
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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