Lena the Hyena Beauty

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In the 1940s Al Capp’s LI’L ABNER comic strip ran a beauty contest, or Ugly contest.  Al Capp invited artists to submit their hand-drawn contestants.  Basil Wolverton’s Lena the Hyena won. (1^st picture).

The second picture was on MAD Comicbook cover, #11.  And the 3^rd picture was on a PANIC comicbook cover.