• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Tor predates Uncle Fester what with him having been born in 1903 and Charles Addams having been born in 1912.

    Also, he actually existed.

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          Neat! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Johnson

          Relevant:

          “Johnson was featured extensively in the early work of cartoonist Drew Friedman, where Johnson was depicted as “Tor”, a slow-witted, white-eyed lummox based on Johnson’s persona in Ed Wood’s films.[9] The first of the one-page comics, “Tor Johnson at Home”, was published in a 1981 issue of Robert Crumb’s Weirdo,[10] and the original artwork was purchased by television writer and producer Eddie Gorodetsky.[11]”

          Not at all relevant, but cool:

          “A latex mask based on Johnson’s face, sculpted by Pat Newman for Don Post Studios, is described as “the best-selling Halloween horror mask of the late 1960s-early 1970s”.[12]”

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            Max used the mask in a scene where he was kidding around with his wife in the first Mad Max movie, but I can’t find a still.