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Cool McCool DVD The Complete Series (1966)
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Item Number: OFDVD39
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From 1966 comes Cool McCool, the witty, limited- animation SatAm King Features/ Hearst 'toon that parodied the '60s spy craze. Created by Bob Kane, creator of Batman, and Al Brodax, creator of the Beatles Cartoon Show and Yellow Submarine, this fast- paced, rollicking, slapstick cartoon has all the right stuff. Fast, funny and frenzied, it also features voice actor Chuck McCann, who provides play by play commentary on many of the shows as a bonus feature.
This set also marks the strong entry into the DVD- making field of Ink and Paint, who have here produced a beautiful set, with three one- sided discs in three slip cases in a box set. There's a subtle tip of the hat in the cover blurb: "That suave secret agent from the swingin' sixties is back...for 2007", with the OO7 enlarged through a magnifying glass. This box set includes the full run of Cool McCool with twenty episodes, each consisting of two Cool segments sandwiching one Harry McCool 'toon (My pop the cop), who with cohorts Tom and Dick make up a very limited animation Keystone Kops team.
The show was also unique for its cool jazz theme, which starts "OO", another way of almost saying "007". Cool's tag line was "Danger is my business". Like Bond and Maxwell Smart, he had an array of super gadgets, and can whistle for the Cool Mobile, but they usually foul up and he winds up stammering the recurring line, "Sorry Number One, that will never happen again". Don't expect lavish Disney animation, but if you want to see an imaginative cartoon played for laughs, made, as were all of King's 'toons, on an extremely limited budget, it doesn't get any cooler than this.
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