Classic Cartoon & Movie Comic Covers!

[gaastra]

[gaastra]

DC did Rainbow Brite?! Okay, that was news to me.

Yup. It is her first appearance in comics also. Dynamite comics is making them now.

[Ben]

Also maybe how Warners ended up putting out the animated feature…?

[EricJ]

Wait--(checks IMDb)

...Huh, they did. I remember it coming out as one of "Clubhouse Pictures" indie-distribution attempt to put Care Bears-style IP-property matinees in theaters, like "GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords", along with a few weirdo indies like "American Rabbit" and the Will Vinton "Adventures of Mark Twain".
Apparently there was some backstage drama I didn't know about?

[gaastra]

Clubhouse pictures is paramount who owns the gobots movie. Yes, wb released the rainbow brite film. Ironic as gobots was a hanna barbera cartoon. WB didn't release the pound puppies film "based" on the hanna barbera cartoon also and licensed out hey there it's yogi bear to Parmount for the 1986 theater rerelease.





Then there's smurfs and the magic flute. Highest grossing non disney animated film till care bears movie beat it. Not made by hb but dub of a older 70s film.

[gaastra]

Edit--

Found a incomplete list of 80s animated theatre films based on shows box office--

Transformers the movie $5.8m (not counting fathom events rerelease)
Care bears movie $34m
Care bears 2 $12m
Care bears 3 $6m
Here come the littles $6.6m
Rainbow brite and the star stealer $4.9m
Heathcliff the movie $2.6m
He-man and she-ra secret of the sword $7.5m on a $2m budget! (not counting 2000s rerelease)
He-man greatest adventure of all special event matinee ????
He-man skeletors revenge special event matinee ????
Bravestarr the movie ????
Gobots battle of the rock lords $1.3m
Robotech the movie ????
Macross do you remember love ????
Galaxy express the movie ????
Smurfs and the magic flute $19m
Pogo for presedent I go pogo ????
Pound puppies and the legend of big paw $586,938
Mighty mouse and the great space chase ????
Bon voyage charlie brown and don't come back! $2m
Looney looney looney bugs bunny movie ????
Bugs bunnies 3rd movie 1001 rabbit tales $78,350
Daffy ducks movie fantastic island ????
Daffy duck's quackbusters ????
Babar the movie $1.3m
Puppetoon movie ????
Hey there it's yogi bear 1986 rerelease $1.13m
My little pony the movie $6m
Chipmunk adventure $6.8m
Force five combo movies matinee releases ????

[EricJ]

Macross do you remember love ????
Galaxy express the movie ????

Galaxy Express 999 got a modest New World dub in '83--ie., Roger Corman, in the same import package that gave us "Warriors of the Wind"--and it's...not too bad, compared to its more infamous cousin.

But the series-sampler Macross: DYRL...not sure if that ever played theaters on its first run, but it's now notoriously a "hostage" of the feud between the Robotech producers and the original Japanese Macross owners, and fans joke that we may probably never see a legitimate domestic version in our lifetime.
Still classic enough to be worth seeking out, in the subterranean tunnels where we OG anime fans used to have to dig for our underground gold.

[Daniel]

The dub of Galaxy Express 999 was released in 1981.

[gaastra]

[droosan]

My favorite Elvira's House of Mystery cover is this one, drawn by Dave Stevens ..
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[Ben]

Things like Donald And The Wheel are the ones I’d be most interested in seeing, as they were basically "graphic novel" versions of produced shorts, sometimes with alternate content that followed original story sketches and boards more than the eventual cartoons did.

[gaastra]

[Ben]

"Nya-ah-ahh!"

[gaastra]

Alvin has not changed a bit has he.