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Comic Mint, your best source for rare, kooky, and classic animation art, is pleased to offer Hanna-Barbera fans this sensational hand painted publicity title cel from the classic sixties television series 'Lippy The Lion & Hardy Har Har'.

This title cel features the two cast members, Lippy The Lion & Hardy Har Har, measuring 12.5" by 10.5" inches, and is in excellent condition. The artwork was created in 1962 at HANNA-BARBERA and was used in the production of the series. The characters and logos are hand painted on the cel. Title Cels are created during production of a series and slides and transparencies are created from this art and sent to magazines and newspapers in order to gather interest in a series. Photos are also sent to fans who write into the studio requesting a photo.

Lippy the Lion (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Joe E. Brown and Hardy Har Har the hyena (voiced by Mel Blanc) first appeared in The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series in 1962, along with Wally Gator and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum. Mel Blanc used the same voice, personality and expressions for Hardy Har Har that he used playing the postman on the Burns and Allen radio show. 
Their cartoons revolved around ever-hopeful Lippy's attempts to do a get-rich-quick scheme, with reluctant Hardy serving as a foil. Whatever the consequences were to Lippy's schemes, Hardy would end up getting the worst of it — a fact he always seemed to realize ahead of time, with his moans of "Oh me, oh my, oh dear". Although the intro shows them in a jungle setting proper for such beasts, most of the cartoons' stories took place in an urban setting.

Cels such as this are EXTREMELY RARE and were NEVER made available in stores, so finding a cel such as this is virtually impossible!