<Li> Mole (in his original appearance in 1952 named Mole MacCarony, in later years sometimes called Molester Mole, his name pronounced not "molester" but, in keeping with his political aspirations, to rhyme with "pollster"): A nearsighted and xenophobic grifter . Considers himself an astute observer, but walks into trees without seeing them . Obsessed with contagion both literal and figurative, he is a prime mover in numerous campaigns against "subversion", and in his first appearances has a paranoid habit of spraying everything and everyone with a disinfectant that may have been liberally laced with tar . Modeled somewhat after Senator Pat McCarran of the McCarran--Walter Act . </Li> <Li> Seminole Sam: A mercenary, carpetbagging fox and traveling huckster of the snake oil salesman variety . He often attempts to swindle Albert and others, for example by selling bottles of the "miracle fluid" H O. Sam isn't really an out - and - out villain--more of an amoral opportunist, even though he occasionally allies with darker characters such as Mole and Wiley . Sam's Seminole moniker probably refers, not to any native blood ties, but more likely to a presumed history of selling bogus patent medicine ("snake oil"). These "salesmen" hucksters often pretended their products were tested and proven, ancient Indian remedies . The Seminoles are an Indian tribe in the neighborhood of Okefenokee Swamp . </Li> <Li> Sarcophagus MacAbre: A buzzard and the local mortician . He lives in a creepy, ruined mausoleum, and always wears a tall undertaker's stove pipe hat with a black veil hung from its side . Early strips show him speaking in square, black bordered speech balloons with ornate script lettering, in the style of Victorian funeral announcements . MacAbre begins as a stock villain, but in later years gradually softens into a somewhat befuddled comic foil . </Li> <Li> The Cowbirds: Two beatnik freeloaders, their gender (s) uncertain, who speak in communist cant (albeit often in typical Okefenokee patois) and grift any food and valuables that cross their path . They associate with a pirate pig who resembles Nikita Khrushchev . Later they loudly renounce their former beliefs--without changing their behavior much . They typically address each other as Compeer and Confrere . It's unclear whether these are proper names or titles (synonyms of Comrade). </Li>

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