New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for March 11, 2018

The Flintstones take it all.

Soupy Sales for the win!

Hard to make a choice.

Beanie and Cecil are not listed. :-(

Where is Roger Ramjet? And why does Soupy Sales get two chances?

Uncle Floyd for the win! And boy howdy, did I have a crush on Sally Starr as a child.

Ooh, Clutch Cargo. Those Synchro-Vox’ed human mouths that they superimposed on the carton characters were really creepy.

And my mother was none too happy when I would draw on the TV screen with my crayons when watching Winky Dink without using the special vinyl screen cover that they sold.

It’s March Comic Re-run Madness! Are we going to get a Bracket next week?

And where are Bugs Bunny and the Roadrunner?

Super Chicken?

Bullwinkle all of the way (for what is shown). What does HRM have against LoonyToons? And where are Johnny Quest, Tobar the 8th man, and Speed Racer? Seems there are a lot of options that could be used instead of Soupy Sales 3×.

Batfink is underrated.

Best first-round matchups: Yogi Bear vs. Gumby, Bozo vs. Felix the Cat, Flintstones vs. Jetsons, Heathcliff vs. Garfield, Smurfs vs. Pac-Man, Transformers vs. GI Joe.

Biggest routs: Mighty Mouse over Mickey Mouse, Tom and Jerry over Tom Terrific, Soupy Sales over Tele-Comics, Hong Kong Phooey over Superfriends.

No Fireball XL5?

Some intriguing potential second-round matchups: Bullwinkle (or Mr. Magoo) vs. Popeye, Astro Boy vs. Space Ghost.

How could Pab start with a Philly Phave like Sally Starr and not have Willy the Worm?

Crusader Rabbit?

Aw c’mon! You expect us to believe Speed Racer — a character that’s fundamentally based on the concept of competition — didn’t even make it into the tournament?!

Quickdraw McGraw has a pretty good case.

In a stunning upset, Hong Kong Phooey defeats Mighty Mouse in the Final, when MM is distracted by Oil Can Harry tying Pearl Pureheart to a log in the sawmill…again. An all-Soupy Sales final would be interesting, too.

Not on the bracket — Mr. Rogers for the win!

Now this is one bracket that’s going to take some thought!

Batman. It does not matter who is fighting, Batman always wins. He can beat cancer with a carton of cigarettes.

Sally Starr! OMG, growing up in Chester County, she was my goddess! With her director Uncle Walt Wagonhurst! Yes! And Willie the Worm! I’d almost forgotten him. But Pab didn’t mention Captain Chesapeake, who was the Baltimore cartoon host.

No “Top Cat”? Poor Officer Dibble

Clutch Cargo? that crappy toon! GEEZ PAB,have standards will you!

BULLWINKLE!! BULLWINKLE!!

George of the Jungle?

Analysing these answers could give Pab some very interesting demographics data… or it could be total junk.

Linus the Lion Hearted?

How is Popeye even in the ’60’s? He’ll be 100 in a few more years.

Seems to me the brackets were filled out by agents of Hanna-Barbera.

Where’s UnderDog? Augie Dog? Lippy the Lion & Hardi-har-har? Fractured Fairy Tales? Sherman and Mr. Peabody? Tennessee Tuxedo? So many missing….

This Pab’s? I bet Popeye v. He-Man for the final. Both undefeated to my knowledge.

Two questions:

1. Why is Star Trek in the 1970’s?

2. WHERE IS GARFIELD GOOSE?!?

Davey and Goliath? and GUMBY, dammit!

Top Cat, Gigantor (which I link in my mind with AstroBoy— must have watched them together), and my very young fave, Kimba the White Lion (which Disney ripped off for Lion King). I started watching that on YouTube, and Kimba escaped from a freighter that he had been aboard at sea for over a month, and SWAM back. A whole episode or two, it seemed, of him just swimming.

He’s the greatest. He’s fantastic. Wherever there’s danger he’ll be there. He’s the ace. He’s amazing. He’s the strongest, he’s the quickest, he’s the best.

Says it all, really.