Word: hyenas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Super-Animal. The miracle of Dogpatch had become a greater national phenomenon than Lena the Hyena; culturally it had surpassed even Sadie Hawkins day. To New York Herald Tribune Radio Columnist John Crosby, who thought he detected a likeness between the whiskered shmoo and a certain Chicago newspaper publisher, the book was "one of the finest satiric creations since Gulliver's Travels." (No, said Capp modestly, that was overrating Dean Swift.) To Dr. Frederic Wertham, a Manhattan psychiatrist who crusades against comic books, the shmoo offered "a solution of human problems on the same spurious level as Nietzsche...
...Devil you depict could not seduce even Lena the Hyena. Nothing like him was ever kicked out of Heaven. Fact is the Devil is good-looking ... he has a Clark Gable mustache and a widow's peak like Robert Taylor...
Your June 2 Billy Rose cover . . . ended up in the garbage can. I could stand Lena the Hyena, but that cover-ugh! TIME must be getting hard...
...Apparently the political insinuation that Mr. Capp has presented in Li'l Abner was missed by Mr. Killinger. . . . True, Lena the Hyena was undoubtedly created to rib Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould; ah, but Lower Slobbovia was also created, I am sure, to rib a certain country. What more appropriate place than in Foreign News could the item have been placed...
Cautious cables from the never-never land of Lower Slobbovia (TIME, Oct. 7) described the immigrant as "age 18, single, female of some species, maybe human." This week the displaced Slobbovian, billed as the ugliest woman alive, landed in the U.S. and in the funnies. Her name: Lena the Hyena...