I know there’s a lot of fans of Harvey Eisenberg out there, so here’s a [mediocre] Li’l Bad Wolf story he drew from Walt Disney’s Comics & Stories #77. (By the way, did he have an actual first name, or did Zeke really name his son “Li’l”? Typical hick.)
"Enemy Gets in a Few Good Licks!"
Another Library of Congress synopsis reveals that the first Oscar-winning Tom & Jerry, Yankee Doodle Mouse, had a scene deleted in the reissue prints. Go to page five for details.
And yes, the guys typing these up eventually did cite the characters by name in their synopses… I’ll have a few more of these up in the coming weeks. Thanks again to David Gerstein.
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Th' fiery foinace!
Irv Spector wrote only one cartoon with Herman & Katnip, the first entry in the actual H&K series (after being regulars in the Noveltoon series), Mice-Capades. This short contains all of the trademarks of the classic unsettling Famous Studios production; the ultimate one being that a bottle of poison (clearly labeled, with a skull) is readily available in the kitchen. (I think Joan Crawford lived in this house.) Al Eugster is trying to get a little angular with the poses and animation here, with mixed results.
And the theme song is probably the best one ever written in history.
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Quite a contrast to the video directly below, huh?
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Happy Mother's Day
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