#mighty mightor

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Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure (Publicity cel, c.1982)

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Mightor

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HAPPY 66TH ANNIVERSARY TO HANNA-BARBERA

Shows 1967 to 1969

Fantastic Four // Mighty Mightor // Moby-Dick // Young Samson and Goliath // The Banana Splits // The Adventures of Gulliver // The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn // Wacky Races // Dastardly and Muttley In Their Flying Machines // The Perils of Penelope Pitstop

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art by BezerroBizarro

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Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure (1982?)

Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure featuring the most fantastic collection of spectacular super heroic stars ever assembled! They will take you on adventures in space, meeting strange creatures, to exotic lands and fantastic flights of fancy, to jungle planets and mysterious invaders, to prehistoric times and super forces, to honored and winged avengers, to giant, terrifying creatures against primitive power. In space, land, sea and air, it's a variety of stars – mighty, musical, athletic, extraordinary – from funtastic to the fantastic where amazing weapons, men and robots meet in combat in the far-out reaches of the universe. Dedicated to protecting the peace, these fantastic heroes defend the weak, right the wrong and battle against the forces of evil everywhere. And now it's take-off time for the gathering of the greatest…Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure! Source: Wikipedia

This image was painted by Bob Singer in 1973. The heroes shown here are Birdman, Shazzan, Frankenstein, Jr., Human Torch, Coil-Man, Fluid-Man, Young Samson, Goliath, Space Ghost, Superman, Mighty Mightor, Wonder Woman, Batman, Thing, Zok, Tundro, Zandor, Gloop and Gleep. Source: SuperFriends Wiki

[ericmhe]

Just today I found out about an old 1960's cartoon that featured a prehistoric superhero who teamed up with Moby Dick, the literal public domain white whale being the plucky animal helper back in prehistoric times and I find myself wanting to see someone's long winded essay on that and what it means for the novel to incorporate that into continuity. Just, deranged alternate history the god in the shape of a whale that turned against man with the loss of his superhero buddy. I haven't actually read Moby Dick and media analysis is not a skill I managed to develop very well so it will never be.

It's called the Mighty Mightor and from the look of the guy I think they wanted to use Thor but likely ran into copyright issues (I don't know this, I'm guessing it based on 'He-Man is kid-friendly Conan' sort of trivia) so amusingly in the opening Moby Dick gets top billing as the one with the name recognition.

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Batman, The Mighty Mightor, and TUROK (Dinosaur Hunter)

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"NEW ART" Doodie went way back paying Homage to the Mighty Mightor! 

This print will be available as a stretch goal for book 6 of There's an Alien in my Toilet ® Signup and get us closer to 100 before we launch on Oct 2nd. https://bit.ly/Doodie_Book_6

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But he saved those kids, he can't be all bad, right?

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From the Hanna-Barbera vaults comes one of the odder animated pairings in Saturday Morning cartoon lore. Moby Dick is a friendly white whale to teens Tub and Tom, and together with their pet seal Scooby, they battle the dangerous villains of the undersea world like the Iguana Man and the Crab Creature. 

You can almost feel Herman Melville turning over in his grave - but maybe laughing a little too.

Did any kids see this and try to read the book?

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Future Quest #9 (Cover Art by Evan Doc Shaner)

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The Mighty Mightor, Hanna-Barbera's prehistoric version of Marvel's Thor.

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"NO ONE WAS USING THESE CHARACTERS AT THE TIME I PAINTED THIS" -- THE HANNA-BARBERA UNIVERSE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a piece titled "Hanna-Barbera Heroes" (2001), artwork by Alex Ross, and created for the Warner Bros. Studio Stores as a tribute to the most notable superhero types of characters from Hanna-Barbera’s extensive library of cartoon shows.

"No one was using these characters at the time I painted this.  They weren’t even in regular rotation on Cartoon Network at the time. I talked Warner Bros. into letting me do this huge image, even though I was unfamiliar with many of the characters."

-- ALEX ROSS (American comic-book artist/writer/painter) on his "Hanna-Barbera" piece

Now, for one of the greatest roll calls I've ever posted on here, so here goes:

The Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt ("Blue Falcon & Dyno-Mutt"); Blip, Jan, Jace, and Space Ghost ("Space Ghost"); Shazzan, Kaboobie, Chuck, and Nancy ("Shazzan"); Tundro, Gleep, Igoo, Gloop, Zok, Tara, King Zandor, and Dorno ("The Herculoids"); Samson and Goliath ("Samson & Goliath"); Jayna, Gleek, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Zan, Samurai, Marvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog ("Super Friends"); Mightor ("The Mighty Mightor"); Avenger and Birdman ("Birdman"); Vapor Man, Meteor Man, and Gravity Girl ("The Galaxy Trio"); Raseem, Bez, Fariik, Prince Turhan, Princess Nida, and Zazuum ("Arabian Knights"); and Jana ("Jana of the Jungle").

Resolution from largest to smallest: 3552x2688, 3476x2400, 3183x1571, & 1280x1222 (2x).

Source: www.illustrationhistory.org/illustrations/hanna-barbera-heroes.

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I was wrong - apropos of my mentioning the “God has abandoned us” Moby Dick movie (2010: Moby Dick). I forgot about the time that Moby Dick was underwater superhero. 

No, you did not read that wrong. Thank you ‘60s for the lovely piece of what the fuck am I watching? I’d say enjoy but um, this was special >.>

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art by BezerroBizarro

[clyde49]

Hey everyone guess who has a new Instagram account for Cartoon Network infographics! The newest one is about the overall continuity of Cartoon Network programming and how the Cartoon Network canon predates the network itself. I will probably repost a few more of these on here eventually but here's a preview of the page for now

Is there a Cartoon Network Multiverse?

The short answer is most likely. The long answer takes a little history. Cartoon Network was originally established to house the Hanna-Barbera library of animated series. Hanna-Barbera cartoons already had an established history of multi series continuity that predates CN, so likewise this continuity followed the shows onto the network.

This HB animated canon was established over a long history of crossovers. There's honestly enough of theses crossovers to be slightly overwhelming so here's three examples to jump off from if you are interested in diving into the older series

Space Ghost (1967) (Council of Doom arc) (The last 2 Space Ghost episodes (six segments), were dedicated to introducing series that were following after Space Ghost in production including The Herculoids, Mighty Mightor, and Shazzan)

The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) (This series is known for its guest stars, and this includes characters from other HB produced series; Josie and the Pussycats, Jeannie, and Speed Buggy)

Yogi’s Gang (1973) (Contains 20 different series worth of characters including Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and Wally Gator fighting the likes of Dr.Bigot and sutch)

These series are three of the dozens of crossovers HB characters that existed before there was even a Cartoon Network.

When Cartoon Network was established, and eventually introduced its own series, at first it was implied these series were part of the older countuity. For instance Dexter's lab had a crossover with Dynomutt and The Blue Falcon, while Space Ghost and Birdman both cameo in an episode of The Powerpuff Girls.

Around the second half of CN G1, Cartoon Network shows started to move away from the prime HB timeline and focused more on individual series being self contained, however the crossovers never really slowed down, with a large amount of crossover material including; Cartoon Cartoon Fridays,the Cartoon Network City bumpers, Fusion Fall, Crossover Nexus, Punch Time Explosion, and even an upcoming (as of publishing) episode of Jellystone

HB being a multiverse in particular was already established by at least the 1980s in “Space Stars”, in with the “Teen Force” characters regularly and casually traveling between alternative dimensions, but continues to today with CN works like “Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake”, which goes into detail about the logistics of Adventure Time’s central multiverse, and, by extension Cartoon Network’s larger multiverse as a whole. There's even a very telling “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack” cameo.