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This article may be old news to you guys, but I was unaware of it and found it amusing: https://diterlizzi.com/essay/owlbears-rust-monsters-and-bulettes-oh-my/ It explains how various of the iconic early D&D monsters were just ink drawings of dime-store junky rubber toys from Asia that Gygax wanted to canonize so that he could use the toys as miniatures: