1947 citing in Archie Comic of "butthole." What did it mean?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Lank Leonard's "Mickey Finn" strip began in 1936. The phrase is first
attested in 1928, but, as HDAS suggests, it may go back  in Chicago to
ca1903.  I don't know what JG has on it.

The Anglo-American writer Ernest Jarrold was well-known in the 1890s for
his humorous sketches about "Mickey Finn" (cf. F. P. Dunne's "Mr. Dooley").
 I was unable to find a good connection between Jarrold's "Mickey Finn" and
the drugged drink, which isn't to say that none existed.

JL

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Was there ever any kind of connection between this kind of Mickey
> (Finn) and the "Mickey Finn" character of comic-strip fame?
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