COMMENTS
Comic Mint, is pleased to offer Hanna-Barbera fans this RARE hand painted limited edition animation cel entitled "Dastardly and Muttley" (1992), signed by Bill Hanna & Joe Barbera.

This RARE cel features Dastardly and Muttley in their plane, from the classic TV series in which Dick Dastardly leads a fighter plane group to try ineffectually to stop a carrier pigeon.

The art for this limited edition was created at the Hanna Barbera studio in Hollywood. The original drawing was hand-inked, then the master inking printed onto a sheet of exlar film through the silk-screening process . Each cel was then hand-painted using original Hanna-Barbera colors. The background was reproduced using a fine lithography process. Each piece from the edition was individually numbered and features the signatures of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

This edition was limited to only 200 pieces, and has been SOLD-OUT for 25 years. The artwork measures 12.5" by 10.5" inches and is in excellent condition.

ABOUT THE SHOW
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines is a cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS. Originally the series was broadcast as a Saturday morning cartoon, airing from September 13, 1969 to January 3, 1970. The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages (hence the name of the show’s theme song "Stop the Pigeon"). The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron-era Snoopy, Wacky Races (which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races), and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

The show is widely known as Stop that Pigeon based on the show's original working title and the show's theme song, written by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (and based on the jazz standard "Tiger Rag") which repeats that phrase so often that it is frequently mistaken as the show's actual title. In the UK, the series remains best known by the shorter name Dastardly and Muttley.