| Ku-Klip | |
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 Ku-Klip creating Chopfyt. | |
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Real Name |
Ku-Klip |
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First Appearance |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) |
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Original Publisher |
Reilly & Britton |
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Created by |
L. Frank Baum & W.W. Denslow |
Origin[]
Ku-Klip is a character who was originally the unnamed tinsmith in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz who provided Nick Chopper with tin prostheses when the latter was cursed to dismember himself by the Wicked Witch of the East because of his love for the servant Nimmie Amee. In The Tin Woodman of Oz, readers were introduced to a soldier named Captain Fyter, who met with the same fate due to his interest in Nimmie Amee, and Ku-Klip did the same for him.
After the witch was destroyed by Dorothy Gale's house, Ku-Klip entered the witch's house and took some of her magical devices, including a magic glue. He had thrown Chopper and Fyter's discarded body parts into a barrel, and decided to use this glue to assemble the parts from two men into a man called Chopfyt but, he finds he must substitute a tin arm as well. Nimmie Amee marries the assemblage and appears to be quite happy, but Princess Ozma of Oz takes the witch's tools away from the smith so that he cannot create any more unnatural beings. Ku-Klip continues to keep Nick Chopper's flesh head, who finds the Tin Woodman's claim to be him ludicrous, in a cabinet.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- The Tin Woodman of Oz