Alfred E. Neuman

Long a beloved character and mascot of MAD magazine, Alfred E. Neuman is the original "What? Me Worry!" kid.

According the the MAD website:
"No one's exactly sure where Alfred came from, although illustrations of a grinning gap-toothed boy similar to Alfred have been traced back to at least the 1800s. Other Alfred-like images kicked around for years in various ads, postcards and even other magazines, before first appearing in early issues of MAD.

At first, Alfred was a character with several different names (including Mel Haney, Melvin Coznowski and the What - Me Worry? kid) who simply appeared in the background of different articles, but in issue #29 (September, 1956) he was stuck with the name Alfred E. Neuman and one issue later, Alfred made his first full-color appearance on the cover in a portrait drawn by Norman Mingo."

The figure is a great representation of Alfred and has a neat backdrop to boot. Norman Mingo would cry if he could see how faithful the reproduction is.

An X-MAs Alfred variant figure was also made available later on.

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