J. R. Bob Dobbs.
A clip-art salesman from a 1950s advertisement, pipe clenched, smiling. He is assassinated repeatedly in church literature and returns each time. His face is the church's entire iconography and is reproduced more often than any doctrine it holds.
The Dobbshead is a piece of 1950s commercial clip art — a smiling man in three-quarter profile with a pipe — and it is the most reproduced object in the church by a wide margin. It appears on the pamphlets, the membership cards, the record sleeves, the stickers and the effigies, and it has been redrawn by hundreds of members without any of them being told to. Bob is described as a salesman, a slacker, a time traveller and a fraud, sometimes in the same paragraph, and he is worshipped without any claim being made that he existed. Church literature kills him repeatedly and brings him back. Ivan Stang has said the face was chosen because it was free, blank and faintly untrustworthy, which turned out to be everything the doctrine needed.
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