Betty Boop in a Mother Goose Fairy Tale.

This is the first episode of the Max Fleischer Superman series in 1941. I love the visual style.

Popeye is a tough guy when you try to scare him.

Popeye gets haunted by Bluto.

Popeye and Bluto have it out at sea.

It’s Popeye showing his American spirit on the 4th of July.

Popeye runs for President. Where is Popeye when you need him? Can I write in Popeye?

Popeye takes employment as a Shamus.

Popeye has it out with a house pest. This is probably my favorite Popeye cartoon.

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers trying to take Olive Oyl for a ride.

Popeye runs a diner and has Wimpy for a customer.

This is Betty Boops only color film and Fleischer’s first color film retelling the classic story of Cinderella.

Superman is a fictional character and comic book superhero, originally created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Created in 1932, and rejected by a number of publishers, the character first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 1938). With a premise that taps into adolescent fantasy, Superman is born Kal-El on the alien planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father moments before the planet’s destruction.

Adopted and raised by a Kansas farmer and his wife, the child is raised as Clark Kent, and imbued with a strong moral compass. Upon reaching maturity the character develops superhuman abilities, resolving to use these for the benefit of humanity. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped to create the superhero genre and establish its primacy within the American comic book. Superman is widely considered to be both one of the most famous and popular comic book superheroes of all time, and an American cultural icon.

Falling Hare is a 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, starring Bugs Bunny. The title is another play on “hair”, as “falling hair” refers to impending baldness, while in this cartoon’s climax, the title turns out to be descriptive of Bugs’ situation. Recorded on September 27, 1943.

Within the cartoon are several contemporary pop culture references, including to Wendell Willkie, John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men and the folk songs “Yankee Doodle”, “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”, and the Russian folk song “Dark Eyes. In addition, the Gremlin’s behavior is possibly an homage to Bob Clampett’s version of Daffy Duck (for example, he is seen in one scene riding an invisible bicycle, one of Daffy’s old trademarks, among other acts). The Gremlin holds the distinction, along with Cecil Turtle, the unnamed mouse from Rhapsody Rabbit and the fly from Baton Bunny, of being one of the very few antagonists to actually outsmart and rattle Bugs. wiki

I remember films like this. Of course, being a little younger than this film, the scare was more hydrogen bombs. My grade school years were in the shadow of the Cuban missile crisis. By that time, thermonuclear weapons made the idea of Duck and Cover kind of silly. Still, I remember this film. The school must have gotten a deal on the print. I remember joking with the other kids that it wasn’t Duck and Cover anymore. The joke was “Put your head between your knees and kiss your a** goodbye”.

It became really evident by 1965 or so, that a nuclear war wasn’t survivable. Now, about 45% of the nuclear energy the United States uses comes from decommissioned nuclear weapons we buy from countries that used to be part of the former Soviet Union. They still have 2800 nukes pointed at us. We still have 2200 nukes pointed at them.

Aw, it’s just so darn cute. Little Lulu is a comic strip character created by Marjorie Henderson Buell, who debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935 in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and strewing the aisle with banana peels. Little Lulu replaced Carl Anderson’s Henry, which had been picked up for distribution by King Features Syndicate. The Little Lulu panel continued to run weekly in The Saturday Evening Post until December 30, 1944. wiki