The New Adventures of Huck Finn (1968)

HANNA-BARBERA STUDIO
The New Adventures of Huck Finn (1968)
two (2) original production animation character drawings
blue and black pencil on two (2) animation sheets, one untrimmed and one trimmed to 12.5" x 8.75", image sizes: 10.25" x 7.25" and 12" x 8.25"

These two (2) original animation character drawings of Hunter were created by a Hanna-Barbera Studio artist in development of the villain in the Hunting the Hunter episode of the television series that was broadcast on 11/24/1968. Hanna-Barbera's 1968-69 show combined live-action film of actors playing Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn with animated characters and backgrounds. Iwao Takamoto and Alex Toth were credited with Character Design, and the look of the villains, usually incarnations of Injun Joe from the original story by Mark Twain, owed much to the styling brought to the studio by comic artist Alex Toth in the 1960s. The artist annotated one of the sheets with the character's name and studio production number: "Hunter 30-11". Our certificate of authenticity is included.