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univeral monsters The Animated Universal Classic Monsters (hardback)Release date: March 15, 2024 The Animated Universal Classic Monsters Cartoons with Dracula, Frankensteins Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Phantom of the Opera by Matthew Hahn 6x9 size 500 pages ISBN 9798887712833 Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives Daffy Duck From the 1930s 1950s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character

Release date: March 15, 2024

The Animated Universal Classic Monsters

Cartoons with Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Wolf Man, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Phantom of the Opera


by Matthew Hahn


6x9 size

500 pages

ISBN 9798887712833


“Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives” – Daffy Duck

From the 1930s-1950s, no movie show was complete without a cartoon, and no cartoon was complete without an established character like Bugs Bunny or a caricature of a celebrity, or preferably both. In the same period, Universal Studios dominated the horror genre with its Classic Monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Wolf Man, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. It was inevitable that the monsters would make appearances in contemporaneous animation, and the tradition continues today in television shows like The Simpsons.

Matthew Hahn, author of The Animated Marx Brothers and The Animated Peter Lorre, has found over a thousand cartoons featuring the monsters in movies, TV, commercials, music videos, computer games, and fan films, including abandoned projects, coincidences, connections, and apocrypha. The monsters’ animated avatars play opposite Mickey Mouse, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker, Mr. Magoo, the Pink Panther, Kaibutsu-kun, Beany and Cecil, Inspector Gadget, Spider-Man, the Super Friends, Scooby-Doo, the Transformers, Ghostbusters, Muppet Babies, Garfield, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Rocko, the Fantastic Four, Freakazoid, Catdog, SpongeBob Squarepants, Patrick Star, Billy and Mandy, Squidbillies, Tom and Jerry, Doraemon, Phineas and Ferb, Cleveland Brown, Uncle Grandpa, the Venture Bros., the Incredible Hulk, Teen Titans, Mr. Bean, Rick and Morty, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Abbott and Costello. They have appeared in Mad Monster Party? (1967), the Hotel Transylvania franchise, Minions (2015), the Monster High franchise, the Groovie Goolies franchise, The Munsters franchise, the Castlevania franchise, Family Guy (1999), Futurama (1999), The Fairly OddParents (2001), Robot Chicken (2005), Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole (2010). Creators include Walt Disney, Frank Tashlin, Paul Terry, Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Dave Fleischer, Walter Lantz, Bob Clampett, Tom Ruegger, and Butch Hartman.

Illustrated. Includes index, notes, and bibliography. This book should be on the shelf of all animation aficionados, classic movie fans, gamers, pop culture enthusiasts, history buffs, and lovers of fun facts.

LIBRARY JOURNAL BOOK REVIEW:
Hahn (The Animated Peter Lorre) conducts a  comprehensive  survey  of  Uni-Toons,  the  animated appearances of Universal's classic movie monsters in cartoons, movies, video games, internet shorts, and more. . . He also displays a sense of humor and a love of wordplay. . . Hahn's hilarious writing style . . . makes this one of the more amusing film reference works available."
—Terry Bosky, LIBRARY JOURNAL     

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