Meet Mr. Nutt

Mr. Nutt is an architect of the Morris Lapidus school.

Mr. Nutt is not happy when The Man^TM orders the demolition of Mr. Nutt's "masterpiece."

Mr. Nutt is apparently either a devout Freemason or a big fan of Robert Anton Wilson.

Mr. Nutt is the type of fellow who saves jars of his own urine.

Mr. Nutt is not "down" with the "teen scene."

Mr. Nutt will show them all...oh, yes, he will...

Mr. Nutt cannot prevent his glorious dream from crumbling when faced with some teenage android superheroes.

Mr. Nutt would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

From Dell's Superheroes #2 (April 1967), the title of which only hints at the unrelentingly generic nature of the stories within each issue. Even in a medium and genre where deadline-driven, work-for-hire drek was the historical norm, it's a depressingly extreme example of creative endeavor as stock commercial product.

As for the musical annotations for today's post, here are two much-loved tracks from the archives that are decidedly not standard template products:

The Call - The Walls Came Down (from Modern Romans, 1983; collected on The Best of the Mercury Years, 1991)

Madness - Tarzan's Nuts (from One Step Beyond, 1979)