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- From: abw@natchez.bu.edu (Al Wesolowsky)
- Newsgroups: alt.tv.simpsons
- Subject: Re: Molester Mole
- Message-ID: <105658@bu.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 23:41:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec24.193956.19878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
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- Organization: Boston University
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- In article <1992Dec24.193956.19878@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> caldwell@astro.as.arizona.edu (Nelson Caldwell) writes:
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- Actually, it was abw@natchez.bu.edu who made the following claim:
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- +>"Mad" magazine had a story by Wil Elder in the early 1950s with a central
- +>character much resembling our trucker. His name was, I think, "Molester
- +>Mole," and he was a criminal who specialized in digging underground
- +>tunnels into bank vaults and out of prisons. He was a one-shot character,
- +>with the face and general appearance of the OFF character.
- +
- +If the reference is in fact to "Molester Mole," it is derived from
- +a character with that name in Pogo by Walt Kelly, not Mad by Wil
- +Elder, though that's a good guess. Perhaps Elder's mole had a different
- +name? Or maybe Elder and Kelly both used the same name? I dunno, but
- +there is definitely a Molester Mole in the Pogo Pantheon.
-
- D'oh! <slaps forehead> You are correct in the "Molester Mole"/Walt
- Kelly connection, something that I should have remembered. But thanks
- for setting me straight.
-
- I checked and the "Mad" story is by Will Elder, entitled simply
- "Mole!", and appers in Volume 1, Number 2 (December 1952--January
- 1953). The character's name is given as "Melvin Mole," and possesses
- the large nose, specs, and short body (as seen in the Driving License
- bit) of OFF's truckin' man. The Elder yarn, BTW, is odd enough to
- appeal to OFF's producers.
-
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