WIERDA THE WITCH
Real Name: Wierda
Identity/Class: Normal human magic user (1940s era)
Occupation: Witch
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Her goblin familiars, her castle ghosts
Enemies: Silly Seal, Ziggy Pig
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations:
First Appearance: Krazy Komics I#16/1 (Winter,
1944)
Powers/Abilities: Wierda is an experienced
witch and excels in teleportation spells, which are often accompanied
by lightning bolts. She occasionally uses a levitating broom. Wierda
can summon (laid-back) goblin familiars and has ghosts in her castle
that are loyal to her. She eats fresh meat and despite her stoop, is
able to run up and down stairs in her castle very well.
Height: 6'
Weight:
Eyes: Black
Hair: Ginger
History:
(Krazy Komics I#16/1 (fb) - BTS) - Wierda roamed the
world but for unrevealed reasons, became secluded in her castle and
focused on old-fashioned witch techniques.
(Krazy Komics I#16/1) - In her castle, wicked Wierda
the Witch boiled water in her old cauldron for a new brew, but became
tired of the same old witch stuff, so she zapped her cauldron away and
decided to go out into the world again to find two live victims to eat.
She chanced upon Silly Seal and Ziggy Pig arguing over the existence of
witches. Wierda grabbed Silly's book and hoped to find her name, but to
no avail. Seeing the pair as her next meal, she cast a teleportation
spell, but the suspicious Silly quickly escaped with Ziggy. Angry, she
soon found them and zapped them to her castle. The petrified pair
wouldn't cooperate with Wierda so she cast another spell to manifest
her goblin familiars, who chased the pair with pitchforks to capture
them. Ziggy and Silly ran through the castle, evading a guardian ghost,
so Wierda gave chase personally up twisting staircases until they
unwittingly ended up in the kitchen again. She hoisted them up in a net
above a cauldron of boiling magic water that would never cool, and then
dropped the pair in, but instead all the water splashed out, boiling
Wierda's feet ankle-deep while Ziggy and Silly were apparently safe in
the empty cauldron. Ziggy and Silly escaped the room, later unsure they
had avoided the hot magic water.
Comments: Creators not credited.
Another fourth wall-breaking reference, often found in 1940s comedy coomics, with Silly saying to run faster "before the guy who draws this thinks of something else to happen to us!".
Profile by Grendel Prime.
CLARIFICATIONS
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Wierda the Witch has no known connections to:
images:
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Krazy Komics I#16/1, p2, pan3 (main image)
p3, pan2 (headshot)
Appearances:
Krazy Komics I#16/1 (Winter, 1944) - uncredited writer, artist(s),
editor
First posted: 10/31/2025
Last updated:
10/31/2025
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