Wart-Hog's one-time love interest is Lois Lamebrain — an analog of Lois Lane — whom he rapes and kills without mercy. Origin and publication history The idea for Wonder Wart-Hog came to Gilbert Shelton in 1961, while he was living in New York. The following year, Shelton moved back to Texas to enroll in graduate school and get student deferment from the draft. The first two Wonder Wart-Hog stories appeared in Bacchanal, a short-lived college humor magazine produced by former staffers at UT's humor magazine The Texas Ranger, in the winter/spring of 1962. Shelton then became editor of The Texas Ranger (where he had first published work in 1959)<ref>[http://ut-texas-ranger-magazine.posterous.com/texas-ranger-magazine-february-1959 Texas Ranger] (February 1959).</ref> and published more Wonder Wart-Hog stories. The character attracted the attention of Mademoiselle, which wrote about Wonder Wart-Hog in the August 1962 "College" issue. Harvey Kurtzman's Help! also published a few of the Hog of Steel's adventures in 1964–1965. Drag Cartoons Pete Millar's DRAG Cartoons magazine published a Wonder Wart-Hog strip in the early 1960s. The first ongoing publication of Wonder Wart-Hog was in DRAG Cartoons issues #25-49 (1966–1968); several of those also featured another Shelton strip called Bull O'Fuzz. Issue #45 boasted several strips by Shelton, including a parody of West Side Story called "Vice Squad Story". Many of these strips were reprinted in 1968, when Millar Publishing Company released two issues of a quarterly Wonder Wart-Hog Magazine. 140,000 copies of each were printed, but distributors did not pick up the magazine and only 40,000 of each were sold. The following stories from Drag Cartoons have never been reprinted: #26 "Constructs a Wheelie-Turnin’ Toronado" (Apr. 1966) #27 "Goes to Viet Nam" (May 1966) #28 "Meets the Menace of the Plastic Man" (June 1966) #30 "Meets The Granny of Gruntville" (Aug. 1966) #31 "Masked Meanie's Marine Malfeasance" (Sept. 1966) #32 "Meets the Bad Brainbender" (Oct. 1966) #33 "Pie Man's Funny Car" (Nov. 1966) #34 "Meets The Dread Nazi Menace" (Dec. 1966) #40 "Meets Evil Weevil" (June 1967) #41 "Becomes an Ace Photographer" (July 1967) #42 "Gets a Flame Suit!" (Aug. 1967) Underground comix Wonder Wart-Hog's adventures were serialized in comic strip form in many underground newspapers and college newspapers from the mid-1960s through 1977. In 1968, while still living in Austin, Texas, Gilbert self-published Feds 'N' Heads, which featured Wonder Wart-Hog as well as Shelton's other creation, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Feds 'N' Heads was later