Grinch
The book Scrambled Egg Super! by Dr. Seuss had as a character a bird called the “Beagle Baked Bald Headed Grinch” in 1953. Then Dr. Seuss wrote a poem called “The Hoobub and the Grinch”.  In 1957, Dr. Seuss wrote the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas where the Grinch was the protagonist.