Modern Mechanix always has the coolest things. Here’s an article from 1933 called Odd Figures You Can Form with Your Hands
You gotta wonder if Señor Wences saw this article when he came up with Johnny or if Otto Croy, the German artist credited with these figures saw Señor Wences. Or if these are just spontaneous independent developments.
Some of them go from odd into creepy. Others are kinda cute.
