The Impossible Man
- Studio
- DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Marvel Entertainment
- Animation studio
- DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Marvel Comics Animation
Synopsis
A green alien that can do anything lands on Earth and is called Impossible Man by the criminal it befriends.
Characters
Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Ben Grimm/The Thing, Sue Storm-Richards/The Invisible Girl, H.E.R.B.I.E., Impossible Man
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Brad Case
Producing
- Producer
- David H. DePatie, Isadore Freleng (as Friz Freleng)
Voices
- Voice
- Mike Road (Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic), Ginny Tyler (Sue Storm-Richards/The Invisible Girl), Ted Cassidy (Ben Grimm/The Thing), Frank Welker (H.E.R.B.I.E., Impossible Man), Dick Tufeld (Opening Narrator), Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Don Messick, Gene Moss, Nancy Wible, Joan Gerber, Vic Perrin
Music
- Music
- Dean Elliott
Animation
- Animator
- Lee Halpern, Bob Kirk, Joan Case, Francie Freeman, Virgil Ross, Nelson Shin (misspelled as "Shim" on the credits)
- Layouts
- Hal Ficq, John Messina, Norley Paat, Warren Greenwood, John Dorman, Zygamond Jablecki
- Animation Checking
- Armand Shaw
- Animation Camera Supervision
- Ray Lee
Art Department
- Storyboard
- Jack Kirby, Lew Marshall
- Backgrounds
- Tom Maloney, Sharon Thomas
- Background Supervision
- Richard H. Thomas
Camera
- Camera
- Steve Wilzbach, Bob Mills, Gary Gunther
Editing
- Editor
- David H. DePatie Jr, Richard Cannon, Richard Corwin
- Editing Supervisor
- Robert Gillis
Sound
- Music Mixer
- Eric Tomlinson
- Production Mixer
- Steve Orr
- Sound
- Producers' Sound Service
Music Department
- Music Editor
- Joe Siracusa
- Conducted By
- Eric Rogers
Production Management
- In Charge of Production
- Lee Gunther
Crew
- Created for Television By
- Stan Lee
Companies and other credits
- Sound: Inc
Production notes
The Fantastic Four are a group of superheroes that got transformed into what they are now by a cosmic storm in outer space. Reed Richards becomes Mr. Fantastic who is able to make his body stretch like rubber. Sue Storm-Richards becomes the Invisible Woman who is able to phase out at will. Ben Grimm becomes the Thing. And Herbie is their mascot.
With their new found powers and abilities they protect the Earth from intergalactic villains.
Though it is true that Johnny Storm/The Human Torch was not in this series, rumors that the reason was that the network was worried kids might light themselves on fire to imitate him is not factual. In 1997, Marvel licensed a number of their characters to Universal Studios to be developed as live-action TV-movies and series. A pilot of a Captain America show and the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno live-action The Incredible Hulk series were results of this license.
In 1978, when NBC decided to green light The Fantastic Four animated series, Universal still controlled the rights to The Human Torch character, but the remaining three characters were free. Universal would not sub-license The Human Torch to NBC, so a new character- H.E.R.B.I.E.- was developed for the show.
H.E.R.B.I.E. was conceived and named by Stan Lee and designed by Jack Kirby.
It is worth noting that The Fantastic Four cartoon series was produced out of the DePatie-Freleng studio on Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, California... a building that burned to the ground a year or so later.
With their new found powers and abilities they protect the Earth from intergalactic villains.
Though it is true that Johnny Storm/The Human Torch was not in this series, rumors that the reason was that the network was worried kids might light themselves on fire to imitate him is not factual. In 1997, Marvel licensed a number of their characters to Universal Studios to be developed as live-action TV-movies and series. A pilot of a Captain America show and the Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno live-action The Incredible Hulk series were results of this license.
In 1978, when NBC decided to green light The Fantastic Four animated series, Universal still controlled the rights to The Human Torch character, but the remaining three characters were free. Universal would not sub-license The Human Torch to NBC, so a new character- H.E.R.B.I.E.- was developed for the show.
H.E.R.B.I.E. was conceived and named by Stan Lee and designed by Jack Kirby.
It is worth noting that The Fantastic Four cartoon series was produced out of the DePatie-Freleng studio on Van Nuys Boulevard in Van Nuys, California... a building that burned to the ground a year or so later.