Believe me, it's no fun being an aardvark. I'd rather be a banker, and have a businessman's lunch. Instead, I have to catch things like him!

Crossing the Streams Since retro video games arw another hobby, I look at Ruby Spears / Jack Kirby's Golden Shield and I am reminded of the Sega fantasy game, Golden Axe (lead designer Makoto Uchida) The arcade game became a classic Sega Genesis console game.

Daily Hanna Barbera Clarification Ruby Spears grew out of Hanna Barbera, and kept the same parent company until sold in 1991. They did fun things when HB had gotten clunky, including Superman and Thundarr. They also had Jack Kirby doing some concept work. I'll note when something is Ruby Speara

Daily Hanna Barbera Clarification Ruby Spears have deep HB roots, and their own company became both a competitor and a sister under Taft from 1977 until sold to Turner in 1991. I'm going to put them in-scope, but I'll note its Ruby Spears.

Daily Hanna Barbera* With the Rapture being discussed, I thought today might be a good day for an unrealized 1980s Ruby Spears cartoon - one Jack Kirby did promotional art for - Golden Shield - an ancient Mayan hero fights to save the world in the then future apocalyptic year of 2012.

The amazing part to me is not its composition, its sense of oncoming movement, it detail - but this was done for a single Sunday page, to be seen once and lost. McCay should have been doing book illustrations, like a Wyeth or Pyle.

Daily Hanna Barbera Its the Mole Man - a classic comic book FF villain - in this 1967 HB episode of The Fantastic Four. Looks! He's got minions His plan has been to make tunnels connecting major cities and .... wait ... he'll make billions if he leases out tjose tunnels! Wow.

Not being 'in the trade', I had to search about likenesses of the dead. Yup - Right of Publicity. So, all those Elvis impersonators have to pay a license for a guy dead (supposedly) since '77. How long does that go on? Stan Lee's likeness going to be pimped for years to come. Ex-Mortum-ior!

Happy Hobbit Day September 22 is the day of Bilbo's 111th birthday (well, all his birthdays) and Frodo's birthday as well. Go barefoot, have 2nd breakfast, or maybe wear a ring! The book, The Hobbit, was originally published on September 21st 1937.

Daily Hanna Barbera Bonus Moltar model sheet by Alex Toth

Daily Hanna Barbera Nitron the Human Bomb is a one-shot villain in Birdman (1967) Attempting to take a leadership role in the evil organization, FEaR, he uses his explosive powers and his flying sled to cause havok. Voiced by John Stephenson (Mr Slate)

A snippet from Chuck Jones adaptation of Rikki Tikki Tavi (Rudyard Kipling) from 1975. Wonderful visuals, suspenseful storytelling, and voices of Orson Welles and June Foray.

Daily Hanna Barbera A Rosie the Robot (The Jetsons) homemade scarecrow at Peddlars Village in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Ahoy! Me best wishes to ye, ye olde scurvy mongrel, on this 19th day of September, be it talk like a pirate day. <Howard Pyle 1903>

A Stan Lee puppet? Will it be selling Marvel products post mortem? How about a Steve Ditko hologram that would just rant about the audacity of manufacturing a Steve Ditko hologram. Techno-necromancy seems very comic book supervillain.

This is Moltar, when he was host of Toonami in early 1999. He is reviewing Beetle Adventure Racing on the Nintendo N64 (5 out of 5) At the time, polygons were new and few, as were analog sticks - this racing game.was couch co-op crazy fun. toonami.fandom.com/wiki/Moltar?...

Daily Hanna Barbera Moltar, leader of the Molten Men and a member of the Council of Doom. He is a recurring mad scientist villain on Space Ghost (1966)

Clarification on 'Daily Hanna Barbera' While Adult Swim (2001 -) uses HB characters, I don't include it in as in-scope. Its really its own thing, and a subset of Cartoon Network. Maybe I'll do a Daily CN some day, but not today.

"This looks like a job for..." 73 years ago (19 September 1952), the George Reeves Superman TV series debuted. Today (19 September 2025) you can stream the David Corenswet Superman movie NAC (No Additional Cost with your @streamonmax.bsky.social subscription)

Some Punkin by Fred Neher (1948) They say the women treat you right on Broadway But looking at them just gives me the blues 'Cause how you gonna make some time When all you got is one thin dime And one thin dime won't even shine your shoes

A quick comparison of the style of the Abbott and Costello (St. Johns 1948) vs Abbott & Costello (Charlton 1968) Bud and Lou established a youth center (named for Lou's infant son who drowned) in a poor manufacturing area of LA specifically to combat #juveniledelinquency

In true Social Media fashion, I expect someone to say 'you like Bobs - what have you got against Owens or Noahs?' Look, saying I like cantaloupes says only that. I can still like peaches or bananas. The banana aficienados need not take umbrage. All I'm saying is I like cantalopes. And Bobs.

Bob is a solid name From 1900 to 1990, Roberts Rules the Earth (US male baby names), always being top 10 - now Robert is 90th. Bob is a great monosyllaic moniker. One you can shout across a field, belch, repeat rapidly, chant to the tune of Spam. Bob is a minion, a Builder, a Sponge. We ❤️ Bob

This is an 8 part post for the Daily Hanna Barbera. It covers the character, episode, voice actor and some other trivia. I wish Bluesky did threads better. Doing a thread may be uncommon, but its hardly some big technical challenge to bump the OP and current post to the timelines.

Daily Hanna Barbera Baron Heinrich von Fruelich, antagonist of the Jonny Quest episode Shadow of the Condor (1964). While not a Nazi (likely an elderly Prussian aristocrat), its probably not a coincidence the adventure is set in the Andes in South America, where some Nazis fled after WWII

Chuck Norris giving us exposition a'plenty in this panel of Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos *Why no beard? Chuck Norris always had a beard by this time?

Dr Shrinker Dr Shrinker He's a genius with an evil mind

Kirby '85 capturing the Inner Hal Jordan we all know and love

Cosmic Domination - missed it by that much

Post a Panel illustrating why You Love Comics

Thanos going after Hellcat in his helicopter

S.H.I.E.L.D. going after Godzilla in their helicopter

The GI Joe Adventure Team-- going after the Intruder in their helicopter

If the cricket starts a song and dance routine, look out

Donald Duck Year One

Daily Hanna Barbera "I really love your peaches want to shake your tree" A final panel (artist Ray Dirgo) from Charlton's Magilla Gorilla number 1 (there is an earlier Gold Key series). It's just a nice chill panel that I really like. "Looking Good, Billy Ray. Feeling Good, Louis"

A few years after "Rock & Roll" enter the American lexicon, Charlton creates Rock & Rollo, a sort of Denice the Menace type strip of tough street girl Rock, and portly rich boy Rollo in NYC, where different people can rub shoulders and meet. This comic predates the measles vaccine (1963)

1957 Comics Code blurb in a Charlton Comic "This seal of approval appears only on comic magazines which have been carefully reviewed by the comics code authority, and found to have met the high standards of morality and good taste required by this code."

The Trapster is that silly kid in high school, complete with fake accent and beret, who later on matures, gets serious, hits the gym, and creates a a stir at his 10 year reunion.

This has been a Hanna Barbera Production

A self-contained world five miles long ... all alone in the night. As a Babylon 5 fan, its curious that Babylon 5 and The Vanguard (Ship) are both 5 miles long rotating cylinders (for gravity) and self-contained worlds.

Daily Hanna Barbera No one expects Live Action Hanna Barbera! Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974) was a Western, directed by Burt Kennedy (Support Your Local Sheriff), and starring Richard Crenna as a heroic banker (?) standing between outlaws and a strongbox of cash

73 years ago tonight.

This concludes our programming for the night. We wish you pleasant dreams and a brighter tomorrow.

The show was part of a cyclical NBC Mystery Movie, which gave the show perhaps an unhurried ability to cast and craft. According to Peter Falk, there is no Mrs Columbo. Supposedly Falk with ad-lib mannerisms to keep co-stars off balance a bit.

1st Columbo aired this date in 1971 Excluding the pilot (68), the show began with Murder by the Book. Inspired by Father Brown, Columbo is a blue collar, nonviolent, charismatic, seemingly a bumbler who will weave a web to catch the usually urbane wealthy murderer.

What is your favorite *villain* pose? This "You're Next" post of Bolo Yeung's has got to be one of mine.

Ask kids to strike a 'Heroic Pose' and I bet this power landing pose is a popular choice. I credit Iron Man for that (and Black Widow) What pose would you take to look heroic? Arms akimbo? Seated in a throne? Chest out but arms crossed or down? A martial arts pose? Talk to the Hand?

Daily Hanna Barbera The voice of Jane Jetson on the Jetsons (1962 / 1985) was Penny Singleton Best known for playing Blondie in 28 movies (28!) from Columbia pictures. The Jetsons was produced and distributed by Screen Gems, the tv arm of Columbia.

Not that this isn't an interesting cover, but this is the issue with Robert E Howard's Conan in Phoenix on the Sword (Know, oh prince) Funny in retrospect what got promoted. Its like when the Best Picture Oscar goes tona forgettable movie and.not that real classic of that year