Winky, Blinky, and Noddy are a trio of fictional comic book characters, created by writer Gardner Fox and artist E.E.

[4] Winky, Blinky and Noddy first appeared in All-Flash #5 (1942),[5] as incompetent small-time criminals working for a crooked stable owner.

By the end of the story, the ray made them forget their own criminal pasts, and when the readers were asked if they wanted the trio to return, they gave an enthusiastic response.

So they slipped into the All-American offices unannounced in issue #14 and replaced the scheduled story with one of their own -- forcing a frantic Mayer to stamp an "April Fool's Day" label on the splash page rather than miss the publication deadline".

[2] Thirteen years later, in 1960, editor Julius Schwartz asked Gardner Fox to write another Dimwits story at the request of fan (and later Marvel Comics editor-in-chief) Roy Thomas.