Abandoned MGM Wonder Woman Cartoon! (Joke)

[Thad Komorowski]

As you all know, Paramount did a series of Superman cartoons in the early 1940s. Well here's an MGM Tex Avery Wonder Woman cartoon that never made it to the theatres!

Click here! (http://www.cartoonresearch.com/elnews.html)


-Thad

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Wow! That's pretty cool!

[Sogturtle]

Another title to add to the "Avery abandoned cartoon" bin!!!
Actually this would have been nearly ideal for the unit's former director, Hugh Harman !! (With his serious nature).

I've long wondered why none of the studios tried an animated Batman back then on the heels of Fleischer's Superman... Imagine Tex doing Batman (or Shamus Culhane doing it at Lantz!!)

[Pietro]

That sounds really cool.:cool: Wish that MGM released it.:rolleyes:

-Pietro:D

[Tintin]

Et aussi le logo Paramount et Looney Tunes ou les personnages changent de place et la fin originale de "Winner By a Hare" est de toute beauté. Cool! :cool:

[Jack]

That's pretty interesting. Even though I sort of doubt the authenticity of it, it's still a great looking little setup.

Jack :D

[J Lee]

That's pretty interesting. Even though I sort of doubt the authenticity of it, it's still a great looking little setup.

Yea, it's fake -- Preston Blair's Disney roots wouldn't let him draw a Wonder Woman/Red that lumpy looking. ;)

As for what was below it on Jerry's page, the opening titles for the Porky Pig Show in 1964 were done by Hal Seeger's ex-Paramount animators in New York, so I guess that sort of counts. Baby Huey? Obviously, the Famous staff had been watching Chuck Jones' Three Bears cartoons before the came up with the character, so a cartoon with Huey and his dad directed by Jones and written by Maltese probably wouldn't have seemed all that out of place (they could have even done Dave Tendlar's "Pest Pupil" with Huey driving his tutor crazy...).

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by J Lee


Yea, it's fake -- Preston Blair's Disney roots wouldn't let him draw a Wonder Woman/Red that lumpy looking. ;)



Actually Preston Blair's experience was in drawing dancing hippos in "Fantasia" sooooo... ;) ;) :bosko:
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[David Gerstein]

Sorry, guys, I don't believe this Wonder Woman thing is real. While I don't think it would have been out of place for Tex to do such a cartoon, the cel art is set up and posed like a modern-day publicity cel, not like something that MGM artists would have drawn in the 1940s. It also has a style more befitting the recent Dark Horse Tex Avery comics than the original cartoons.

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by David Gerstein
Sorry, guys, I don't believe this Wonder Woman thing is real. While I don't think it would have been out of place for Tex to do such a cartoon, the cel art is set up and posed like a modern-day publicity cel, not like something that MGM artists would have drawn in the 1940s. It also has a style more befitting the recent Dark Horse Tex Avery comics than the original cartoons.


I already sent an email to Jerry Beck asking him to clarify it for all concerned cartoon-fiends...

[Sogturtle]

Originally posted by Sogturtle



I already sent an email to Jerry Beck asking him to clarify it for all concerned cartoon-fiends...


In a note to Jerry Beck dated 2/13/02 11:56:23 PM, Sogturtle wrote:

<< Your secret-site posting of the "Wonder Woman" cel by Tex Avery has some of the Termite Terrace denizens seriously doubting its authenticity... You might clarify it for them whenever you have the time and feel like it... >>

Jerry Beck's response...

"IT'S A JOKE!!!!

If it were real - I'd have put it on my NEWS page! My "Secret page" is a place for me to experiment, away from the public eye. "

Thanks Jerry.

Now all of us who believed it (foolishly) can go off grumbling embarassedly ;). The rest can smile knowlingly and "say told ya, told ya"!!!