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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman

…Wayne gets a girl! The old gang is mostly all here, including Kevin Conroy’s pitch-perfect voice acting as both Bruce Wayne and The Dark Knight. Ephrem Zimbalist, Jr. is back…

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition

…for the 21st century (including the movie’s organic web shooters, rather than the mechanical ones I loved in the comics and older TV shows). Peter Parker is attending Empire State…

Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924

…comes to Felix the Cat, DVD buyers have a few choices on the market that they can pick from in order to sample what the old cartoons were like. The…

Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind

…father, and an old woman named Oh-baba. It is Oh-baba who tells the legend of a person dressed in blue who will help humanity again find its link with nature….

Wacky Races: The Complete Series

…Takamoto and Eisenberg sound like two charmingly grumpy old friends who have difficulty recalling specifics while playfully chiding each other, but the commentary participants all do well to point out…

Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection

…with being accepted by the public and his peers, paying the rent, and generally catching any break at all. The Sweatbox Review: When I was eight years old, I was…

Metropolis

…animation in Japan was brought to a new level of popularity or technical accomplishment. Anime’s oldest and perhaps most beloved character is known in North America as Astro Boy, and…

Justice League: Season One

…Comics’ greatest heroes unite to battle the forces of evil and injustice, in a series that brings the old Super Friends into the modern DC Animated universe. The Sweatbox Review:…

Superman: Brainiac Attacks

…the 1960s Superboy and Superpup pilots, and even a scratchy old copy of the musical version of the character that was televised once in the Seventies. I have that old

Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series

…them received any true characterization. The three heroes joked around and spent the whole show communicating, but no one ever grew emotionally. This was old-time Saturday morning TV, assumedly watched…

Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1

…put out, they contributed more than their share of gold. Plus, their older works for the movie studios are among the classics of theatrical cartoons. I hope to have you…

Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One

…for the 27th one). A couple of Defenders episodes, beginning with the fifth on the set, A House Divided, bring in The Phantom’s jealous older brother Kurt Walker, who once…

The Venture Bros.: Season One

…The B story sees Brock training to regain his license to kill after the old one expires. Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic! introduces a recurring cast member, the Doctor Strange-inspired Doctor…

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season

…enticing. The largest conflicts in the household are between Harry and his two oldest children. Chet is a 22-year old college graduate who cannot muster up much interest in anything,…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…projectionist at one time, known for making chalk drawings on the sidewalk by the Chester Opera House in order to advertise what was playing inside. When he was old enough,…

Popeye 75th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

…warned against picking up this three-disc set of television Popeye cartoons, and was told that they were among the worst things ever done with the sailor. But I love Popeye….

Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy

…a brief introduction for food-chasing Wimpy and what appears to be a cameo by old-time Thimble Theater regular Ham Gravy (Olive’s first boyfriend). Popeye then calls on his girlfriend Olive….

The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics

…view the current series The Batman with some disdain largely because it isn’t part of the so-called “Timmverse”). However, some of us old fogies still remember what we used to…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938

…what was emphasized in the cartoons. This featurette reveals that Segar died at only 44 years old, just nine years after creating Popeye. Me Fickle Goyl, Olive Oyl: The World’s…

TaleSpin: Volume 2

…Save The Tiger, as he becomes indebted to Baloo, who saves his life and proceeds to make a pest of himself. The Old Man And The Sea Duck finds Baloo…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three

older, wiser beetle telling a cautionary tale to a younger one— a tale involving a certain enraged duck! Wide Open Spaces is a solo cartoon, but still a tale of…

The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1

…dole out justice in this two-disc set celebrating Filmation at its adventuresome best. The Lone Ranger and faithful Indian companion Tonto make things fairer in the Old West, while Zorro…

What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season

old-time Scooby, with animation that certainly matched and likely exceeded what had come before. The Mystery Machine got some new upgrades, and characters were slightly re-designed, much in line with…

The Muppet Show: Season Three

…Cultural icons of the 1970s highlight another great season of Jim Henson’s Muppets. The Sweatbox Review: The second season may have been the absolute greatest in terms of old-time star…

Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season

…lots of old favorite comic book characters showing up and joining in a big, big story. A little more continuity between episodes would have sold the arc better, but I…

Tinker Bell

…of young girls, it was natural for Disney executives to wish to find a way to further exploit the buying wants of these maturing girls and their older sisters. They…

Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition

…creepy-looking castle. Inside, he is treated as a guest by strange, talking household objects, including a candelabrum named Lumiere (Jerry Orbach), a clock named Cogsworth (David Ogden Stiers), a pot…

Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond

…and there is a quick preview of Old Yeller during and after the closing credits. Eyes in Outer Space originated in theaters as a half-hour featurette in June of 1959…

Aladdin: Platinum Edition

…in business with their old and new films. In fact, trailers for the Aladdin theatrical release were featured in copies of Beauty & the Beast which had sold extremely well….

Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series

…If you want to see some comparisons on what the old copies looked like, check out the main title and closing sequences found on disc five. The show is featured…