== More on (Moron?) Genesis == 

 I'm reading the book The Ten Cent Plague and on p. 198 it quotes Kurtzman as follows: "It was a face from an old high school biology book, used as an example of a person who lacked iodine."  The source is Kurtzman's My Life as a Cartoonist, Minstrel Books, 1988.  FWIW.