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DR. SNAFFLE

Real Name: Dr. Snaffle (first name unrevealed)

Identity/Class: Anthropomorphic (dog-like) humanoid (1940s era)

Occupation: Scientist

Group Membership: None

Affiliations: Monster (creation, pawn)

Enemies: Silly Seal, Ziggy Pig, police

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Unspecified city in USA

First Appearance:  Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1  (Winter, 1944)

Powers/Abilities: Dr. Snaffle is a brilliant but erratic scientist and biophysicist who can create artificial life (or reanimate life from composite tissue). He is reclusive, secretive and murderous, and has his own secret laboratory. He is armed with a handgun.

Height: 4'6"'
Weight: 85 lbs.
Eyes: Black
Hair: Brown

History:

(Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1 (fb) - BTS) - The brilliant but deranged biophysicist Dr. Snaffle created his humanoid being he disparagingly called Monster. Eager to prove himself as a creator, he nevertheless wanted to keep his work secret and was prepared to destroy evidence and flee if discovered.

(Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1) - Dr. Snaffle finished his work on Monster, which rose from its table and wandered outside despite Snaffle's order otherwise. Coincidentally, Silly Sally and Ziggy Pig, who had just seen the horror film "Frankenstein the Monster" and were suitably frightened, were passing by Snaffle's lab. Monster bundled one scared young adventurer under each arm and returned to the lab. Surprised, Snaffle considered them for dinner, but was more concerned about being discovered.  He tied the young duo to a clock pendulum set minutes from striking a pile of explosives to destroy the lab, and fled with Monster in a car. However, the momentum of the pendulum swing was such that the Ziggy and Silly fortunately slipped off their restraints and out through the window where they coincidentally fell into Snaffle's getaway car. Snaffle immediately stopped to eliminate his foes, but Silly Seal's clumsy antics resulted in Snaffle and Monster getting knocked out. A passing police officer took the villains to court where Snaffle was sentenced to jail and Monster sent to the zoo.

Comments: Creators not credited.

You'll note Dr. Snaffle's Monster has bolts in his temples, somewhat mirroring the bolts in the neck of the Frankenstein monster in the 1931 film.

Profile by Grendel Prime.

CLARIFICATIONS :
Dr. Snaffle has no known connections to:


Monster

Monster was a creation of Dr. Snaffle. He(?) had brutish strength and low intelligence, and was (mostly) quickly responsive to his creator's commands. He spoke in incoherent consonant-laden grunts. After "activation", he wandered outside Snaffle's lab, where encountered the frightened Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal. He bundled one under each arm and returned to the lab. Determined that his work not be discovered, Snaffle left the frightened pair to die in an explosion while he and Monster fled in a getaway car, but luck let the hapless young pair escape and fall into the getaway car. Snaffle stopped to eliminate his foes, but Silly Seal's clumsy antics resulted in Snaffle and Monster getting knocked out. A passing police officer took the villains to court where Snaffle was sentenced to jail and Monster sent to the zoo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

--Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1


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Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1, p5, pan1 (main image)
   p4, pan4 (headshot)
   p4, pan2 (Monster, full body)
   p2, pan3 (Monster, headshot)


Appearances:
Ziggy Pig - Silly Seal Comics#2/1  (Winter, 1944) - creators & editor not credited


First posted: 10/31/2024
Last updated: 10/31/2024

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