Staying with the year 1966 we get the first of animated Marvel characters. The cartoons were produced by Gantray-Lawrence; a Canadian animation company, which featured Iron Man; Captain America; Sub-Mariner; Thor; and Hulk. The syndicated color series had extremely limited animation and were actually only photo static copies of the characters' comic book panels. The animation primarily was from moving lips, and some minimal arm and leg movement. Stories were lifted directly from the mags in their entirety and were shown in seven minute segments. Each character had it's own cheesy theme song with the best being the Hulk's: "Dr Banner belted by gamma rays...turns into the Hulk...ain't he unglamorays". What a hoot!
Check out the intro from the Hulk.
Here's the opening of every Marvel cartoon in 1966-67 including the Saturday nationally televised bigger budgeted Fantastic Four and Spider-Man with it's classic jazzy "Spider-Man...Spider-Man...does whatever a spider can...
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in that age that's comics was a real hit, Captain America was the greatest hero in that age, in childhood this men scar my life.
in that age that's comics was a real hit, Captain America was the greatest hero in that age, in childhood this men scar my life.
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