QUEST: PT TWO Hanna-Barbera becomes an empire

Leaving MGM Animation with 7 Oscars, Hanna and Barbera create a TV empire. The entire 2 hour plus documentary is now on Rapidshare for downloading at my blog: http://chriswebber037.blogspot.com/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jonny
• Quest
• TV
• Hanna
• Barbera
• Animation
• documentary

[jonnyquest037]

Great doc so far, but there's some comic book errors as well. Harvey Kurtzman is one of the all-time greats, but he had nothing to do with Flash Gordon. I believe you meant Alex Raymond.

[chrisweb037]

Though the documentary is not mine, I think the Flash Gordon cover by Harvey Kurtzman that is in the doc is only an example of Kurtzman's work and Kurtzman was a Doug Wildey influence. Are you saying you know for a fact that Kurtzman is not the artist who did the Flash Gordon cover in the doc?

[jonnyquest037]

A quick Google search reveals that Kurtzman was one of the writers of the FG strip in the 50s, but he did not illustrate it. Kurtzman is primarily remembered for creating the comic book MAD and Little Annie Fanny for Playboy magazine. He was most definitely not an illustrator in the Alex Raymond/Dan Barry/Wally Wood vein.

[chrisweb037]

The gentlemen who took 3 years to research and create the doc did more than a quick Google search for their information, but they do check these pages from time to time so, maybe they'll respond and settle the matter for us. Kurtzman took over the Flash Gordon comic series for a time, I know that.

[AvEryBadApPLe]

Fred Flintstone > George Jetson

[tooner58]

But the great ADVENTURE strip artists who influenced Doug were Foster, Caniff and RAYMOND. That's the "holy trinity" of adventure cartoonists. And that FG cover isn't Kurtzman, whose major work was EC's MAD and war comics -- and later Little Annie Fanny for Playboy. He did write FG briefly -- but that wasn't well known until fairly recently, when Kitchen Sink published a book collecting that particular continuity.

The narrator also pronounced Alex Toth's name wrong -- it rhymes with "both."

[abacab987]

"Clutch Cargo" and "Diver Dan" were the bomb in 1963. I am one of the boomers that saw these firsthand. The "Larry Harmon" Bozo show was also quite memorable, but are no longer available anywhere. (sniff) There are a thousand imitators out there though!

[BPrice1A]

By the way, I just found an old interview done w/ Hoyt Curtin on ClassicJonnyQuest (dot) com, and this is what he said about the music's availability - GK: I enjoyed Hanna-Barbera's Pic-A-Nic Basket 4 CD set very much but was a little disappointed that it didn't feature all the music that you created for Jonny Quest. Are the rest of the remaining tracks available or are they still unreleased? HC: I'll check but I think the cues are long gone and hard to find.

[BPrice1A]

Thanks for the info. I'll pick that up.