Videos I found

[dougc]

I am not sure if they classify as "classic cartoons", but since they are 35 years old, I'll try and ask about them here.

While at the video store this past weekend, I found two videos featuring Marvel Comics characters -- Captain America and the Incredible Hulk. Each video, distributed by Fox, had two episodes. Both video jackets listed that the cartoons were from 1966.

Were these cartoons shown on Saturday mornings? If so, were they part of a regular series? Any other details that you can provide on these cartoons would be greatly appreciated.

dougc

[Joe Tully]

This was from the show "The Marvel Superheroes"

Here's a link

http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1485.php

Various different tapes with the different characters have been around for quite some time. I have some Capt. America and Sub-Mariner ones, but last I checked, the tapes were too degraded for me to enjoy.

[J Lee]

Well, the cartoons do have a tenuious link to the "classic" animation period -- the episodes of "The Mighty Thor" were animated by Paramount studios in New York under the supervision of Shamus Culhane in 1966.

The low-budget level of the series was supposed to allow for a profit by Paramount, but unfortunately, as Culhane relates in his autobiography, they somehow managed to botch the synchranization process, and lost their profit when the cartoons had to be reworked. When producer Steve Krantz came back to Paramount with an offer to do the 1967 "Spider-Man" series, Gulf & Western had just bought the studio and the bean counters looked at what happened on the first series and turned it down, which was pretty much the death-knell for Paramount's New York production facility.