Here's a precursor to the Japanese film Mantango (a.k.a. Attack of the Mushroom People), 1963, from England Under the House of Hanover by Thomas Wright and illustrated by F. W. Fairholt, 1868.

Here are two precursors to Reeves and Mortimer's "Tiny Hands" sketch.  The first appears in Nature's Revelations of Character by Joseph Simms, 1879.  The second appears in Thrilling Life Stories for the Masses, 1892.

P-A-C spells Pac, as in Pac-Man's ancestor from 1880's Mathematical and Physical Papers.

You didn't think modern art was genuinely modern, right?  From The Homes of Other Days by Thomas Wright, 1871.

Here's a precursor to If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow, from Christmas Eve by Robert Browning, 1906.

Here's a precursor to a head with a coin slot in Kamen Rider OOO (2010), from The New Hyperion, 1875.

Here's a precursor to King Moonracer, ruler of the Island of Misfit Toys in the Rankin/Bass television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  From Thoughts on the Prophecies of Daniel by Uriah Smith, 1899.

Here are collected the best lions I've encountered in my research to date.

Here's a precursor to the 1927 film It, with Clara Bow as the "it girl."  Our illustration is from Flemington, Where Town and Country Meet, 1910.  See our previous precursor to the "it girl" here.