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Thats not Tor. That’s Uncle Fester!!!
I know right? I mean, there isn’t even an Onion link there.
Tor predates Uncle Fester what with him having been born in 1903 and Charles Addams having been born in 1912.
Also, he actually existed.
The comic is dated 1985?
And yet Tor Johnson still existed.
Didn’t know it was a real person until I googled more!
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]”
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.
Ed Wood: Wait! I just had the best idea for a film ever!
From a book called “Any Similarity to Persons Living or Dead is Purely Coincidental”. Great stuff!
Yep. Been a Drew Friedman fan for years.
