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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 8038000" data-attributes="member: 21169">We know <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-381#post-3532309" target="_blank">Gary Gygax read the strip Gookum</a> in Mad magazine #2 (1952).The Tarzan parody Melvin in the same issue features the Ookaballakonga, a tribe of cannibals &quot;on the warpath&quot; depicted with pointed teeth and nose bones.The same tribe are on the warpath again in Melvin of the Apes in #6. An almost identical tribe, the Ookabolaponga, appear in the King Kong parody, Ping Pong, also in #6. They &quot;need woman for sacrifice&quot;. In The Lone Stranger Rides Again in #8 the hero battles the Ookabollawonga, a &quot;tribe of bloodthirsty injuns&quot;. When they capture the Lone Stranger, they take him to &quot;Chief Wonga for exquisite torture&quot;.This gives us an insight into not only Gary Gygax’s reading material in his formative years but, as a parody magazine containing several short strips per issue, the wider culture of the early 50s. It goes some way to explaining the Tribesman entry in the 1e MM: &quot;Primitive tribesmen are typically found in tropical jungles or on islands. They use large shields…. These men dwell in villages of grass, bamboo or mud huts… There is a 50% chance that there will be 2-12 captives (food!) held in a pen.&quot; And how Gygax may have extrapolated from &quot;tribes of Orcs&quot; in OD&amp;D Book 2 Monsters &amp; Treasure to the many evil tribal humanoids with less than human intelligence in the 1e MM.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 8038000, member: 21169"] We know [URL='https://www.enworld.org/threads/q-a-with-gary-gygax.22566/page-381#post-3532309']Gary Gygax read the strip Gookum[/URL] in Mad magazine #2 (1952). The Tarzan parody Melvin in the same issue features the Ookaballakonga, a tribe of cannibals "on the warpath" depicted with pointed teeth and nose bones. The same tribe are on the warpath again in Melvin of the Apes in #6. An almost identical tribe, the Ookabolaponga, appear in the King Kong parody, Ping Pong, also in #6. They "need woman for sacrifice". In The Lone Stranger Rides Again in #8 the hero battles the Ookabollawonga, a "tribe of bloodthirsty injuns". When they capture the Lone Stranger, they take him to "Chief Wonga for exquisite torture". This gives us an insight into not only Gary Gygax’s reading material in his formative years but, as a parody magazine containing several short strips per issue, the wider culture of the early 50s. It goes some way to explaining the Tribesman entry in the 1e MM: "Primitive tribesmen are typically found in tropical jungles or on islands. They use large shields…. These men dwell in villages of grass, bamboo or mud huts… There is a 50% chance that there will be 2-12 captives (food!) held in a pen." And how Gygax may have extrapolated from "tribes of Orcs" in OD&D Book 2 Monsters & Treasure to the many evil tribal humanoids with less than human intelligence in the 1e MM. [/QUOTE]

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