Dial H for Hanna-Barbera

 

At a time when all I knew where heroes from Marvel and DC comics, I was happy to find Hanna-Barbera's World of Super-Adventure with it's impressive line up of cartoon stars. Space Ghost and The Herculoids were my favorites, but I liked all of the features.  Alex Toth certainly knew how to design a show!

Dial "H" For Hero and Madrox (as 4 Famous Co-Stars!)

When Comics' Legend Tony Isabella (also a Patron of this blog), suggested a cover featuring Jamie Madrox using his duplicates to create an army of heroes to take on a larger threat, I wasn't sure quite how I would be able to pull it off.  It was such a fun concept that I had to try, though. Four heroes isn't an army, but at least it's a start. Thanks, Tony! 

Dial H For Hero and Power Man & Iron Fist

 

Yes, I know that Dial "H" For Heroes For Hire was another way to go with this team up.  I thought that might be a little too obvious though, so I decided to take the tale in a slightly different angle by having Robby summon forth the champion of Eternia.

Ben 10 and Dial "H" For Hero

 

I remember looking at issues of Adventure Comics that featured Dial "H" For Hero and considering whether I should submit a hero to DC Comics for consideration.  Mainly I wanted to see one of my made up characters drawn by George Perez on the cover!  Alas, I never did, I guess I didn't want  to risk signing over a potential million dollar concept to DC!  I do wonder how many of the heroes were actually created by fans and how many came from within the DC offices.

Thank you to comics' historian and Patron of this blog, Marc Tyler Nobleman, for suggesting this team-up!

Dial "H" For Hulk

I was getting interested in the potential casting of Alison Brie as She-Hulk in the upcoming Disney+ Series, but since the global pandemic has shifted all of Hollywood's schedules, we won't be seeing it hit screens until 2022 (along with Ms. Marvel and Moon Knight).  I'm guessing it will be a while before we hear any more news on the show in that case.  I had also read that Mark Ruffalo's Hulk would be appearing in the show.  I wonder if he will show up anywhere else in the MCU before then.

Dial "H" For Hero Vs. Taskmaster

The Taskmaster is a character that I would love to see show up in the MCU at some point.  His costume, which looks cool in the comics, might per pretty hard to pull off in live action, though.  Dian "H" For Hero, has always been a fun concept, might be a good candidate for a TV series, no matter which wielder of the H Dial is used.  There's a lot of storytelling potential there.

Captain Action and Dial "H" For Hero

Although I never actually saw it for sale in stores, the ads for Captain Action fascinated me.  Here was an action figure that could transform into many different heroes - and what a selection!  Batman, Superman, Captain America, The Phantom, The Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon, The Green Hornet, and many more...  the guy was a real life inter-company crossover before there was even such a thing!  It's crazy that they had the rights to use all those different characters, I can't imagine it happening that way today.

Kiss and Dial "H" For Hero

Dial "H" For Hero was a crazy concept but I remember getting quite a kick out of it.  As a kid that loved to create my own superheroes, it was cool to see what others my age had come up with - even cooler to see them in action by professional artists and writers.  Most of the characters were really off the wall, but every once in a while there would be one that I thought was cool enough to be a mainstream star.

Batman and Dial "H" For Hero

Another old-school cover as the result of a request. Coincidentally, Batman was solicited to team up with Robby Reed in the current B&B series just as I started this one. I wish I had used better quality pics to work from for this cover, as the colors are kind of oversaturated.

Dial "H" For Hero is a series that I think would work really well as an animated kid's series. Of course if they put one out now, folks might see it as a rip off of Ben 10, even though it predates that concept by decades.