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!

Conan and Mightor

 

I thought it was time that I featured these two bare-chested battlers from a time gone by in a tale together.  While they may lack fancy attire, their dedication to clobbering demonic intruders is second to none - so you know that you could count on 22 pages of demon-bashing action

Batman, Mightor and Turok

 

Here are a couple of heroes that I never got around to pairing with Batman during my Brave and the Bold: The Lost Issues days.  I figured it might be fun to put all three together.  Add in a bunch of dinosaurs and you have an issue that would have delighted 12 year old me. 

The Club

 

I first was just going to put together a team of pre-historic heroes and then I noticed a common weapon that they all liked to use and this cover really started to come together.  It even made for the perfect name!  I can only assume that Alley Oop first decided to gather this team when he met Captain Caveman and Bamm Bamm's future Father in law in STF #3331...

The Galaxy Trio and The Fantastic Four (And More!)

 

Ever since I saw Marvel's Fantastic Four share the opening credits for Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure with HB's stable of heroes as a kid, I have wanted to see an honest to goodness meeting between these two comic universes.  Alas, the Hanna-Barbera superhero seem to restrict their crossovers to DC characters these days, but there's no reason we can't imagine what it would be like for the Marvel heroes to get in on the action here at STF: The Lost issues!

Mightor and Captain Caveman Vs. Godzilla

I was surprised that Godzilla: King of the Monsters was not a bigger hit with critics or at the box office.  The trailers for it looked great, and everything that I wanted from the first film but did not get.  Even so, I hear that even if the plot and the humans underwhelmed but the actual monster battles are epic.  That's all I really want out of the movie though, so I am still inclined to pick up a copy for my home collection.

Batman and Mightor

I used to get a kick out of the old Batman stories in which he would time travel via hypnosis with the help of Professor Carter Nichols.  Back before he became strictly grim and gritty these types of stories (along with outer space adventures, crazy costume changes and bizarre physical transformations) were a fun change of pace from the usual gangster battling plots.  One thing that I loved about Batman: The Brave and the Bold was the way they embraced and paid homage to that crazy era in the caped crusader's history.

The Mighty Mightor Vs. The Mighty Thor

These two have more than a little in common with each other, so I think that a match-up between them could be pretty cool.  I checked out some Mightor episodes and wow did it bring me back!  Early Saturday mornings watching Hanna-Barberra's world of Super Adventure with a big bowl of cereal?  Those were the days!