24-08-2012, 02:45 PM
Charles Drago Wrote:Carsten Wiethoff Wrote:Ahhhhhh... Now I see it! Clearly the name is wrong. Wasn't it Alfred E. Neumann?:kraka:
That's Alfred E. Newman.
Alfred E. Neumann was featured in Verrückt, an all-but-forgotten humor magazine created by the publishers of Der Klabautermann and Die Ostwache -- no doubt appreciated by many EF regulars, and at least one of the site's owners, as being among the great laugh-filled periodicals of the early 1940s.
Oh, that might be two different persons, looking exactly the same, Alfred E. Neumann in the German issue of the MAD magazine (it was/is called MAD here as well) and Alfred E. Newman in the American/British issues. Likely there are other Doppelgaengers...
I have to look up "Der Klabautermann" and "Die Ostwache". You always learn something new on DPF.
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