Sandman Sam, No. 61, June 21, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, Frank Endres. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling..
Sandman
Sam throws slumber sand on security guards to get them to doze off so he can rob
stores. All the police are asleep, so Batfink is called in. Even Batfink's Beep
falls alseep. Batfink still manages to find Sandman Sam. Sandman Sam can’t put
Batfink to sleep because a bat can only sleep upside down. So Sam ties him into
that position, puts him to sleep and sends him plummeting down a cliff. The Bat
wakes up from his batnap to nab Sandman Sam.
Music includes the opening bars of Raymond Scott's "Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals" and some Winston Sharples jazz piano licks from "The Trip".
Yo Yo A Go Go, No. 62, June 14, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, John Gentilella. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Hugo’s
yo-yo has a hole in the middle to accept a stick of dynamite. He can rob the
furrier with it. At Hugo’s, Karate systematically defuses all but one of
Hugo’s booby traps: the rock in the ceiling gets him. Batfink finds the yo-yo
and surrenders. The good guys are trapped with the Yo-Yo, loaded with dynamite.
But any good yo-yo must return to its owner, which it does, with the dynamite
still inside: Batfink glued the dynamite in.
Hugo's Hoke, No. 63, June 1, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, Jim Logan. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
Hugo’s
giant fan blows hate smoke - "hoke" - into the city. Everyone turns on
everyone else, including Mr. B. Leeding Heart, who tears up the $50,000,000
check he was going to give to the poor. Guards are too busy feuding to protect
the Goddess Of Love statue, stolen by Hugo. Batfink and Karate are in pursuit,
arguing all the way. Batfink orders Karate to drive through a field of
landmines. The usual spiel of the Batillac’s protective qualities is met with
a curt "Oh, shut up!" by Karate (Karate spends the whole reel bitching
about how great Batfink claims to be). Hugo produces two bombs and orders
Batfink and Karate to kill each other. Even though they hate each other, they do
have something in common: they both hate Hugo, so they hurl the bombs at him.
The hoke dissipates, and Batfink and Karate are friends again. And Hugo? He hates
it.
Backwards Box, No. 64, June 1, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Myron Waldman. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
Hugo
dynamites a safe at an armored car company. The guard attempts to arrest him,
but Hugo sends him into backwards motion with the new invention, The Backwards
Box. Batfink and Karate are sent into action, but are sent back by the Backwards
Box. Batfink and Karate then return. Batfink is trapped in a plutonium bell with
only 10 seconds of air. 10, 9, 8... the time ticks away. Batfink calmly opens
the door. The pivot rivet on the latch was missing. Hugo fixes the rivet. 10, 9,
8... Karate breaks down the door, but Hugo drops the Backwards box. Karate
somehow activates the box when it falls, which sends Hugo into reverse motion -
only to be apprehended by Kniftab and Etarak - Batfink and Karate, backwards.
The Great Escapo, No. 65, June 14, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Graham Place. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
The Great Escapo performs at a prison vaudeville show. In the process, Escapo escapes from the prison. Karate momentarily apprehends him, but he escapes from those bonds too. The G.E. locks Karate in a trunk. Batfink is sandbagged, straitjacketed, put into a milk can, then into a safe, and then into a pool like Blackstone. But Batfink escapes and apprehends Escapo. When he gets out he wants to go into show business with Batfink, who is now the greatest escape artist of all.
Magic fans will want to note the soundtrack references to Houdini, Harry Blackstone and James Randi.
Watch My Smoke, No. 66, June 30, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, James Tyer. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Hugo
uses an Aladdin’s lamp which produces smoke. He pumps the smoke into an
armored car, which Hugo drives off with. Batfink sends out a Beep which comes
back with smoke on it. Karate, checking downstairs as usual, runs into Hugo and
gets a taste of his smoke and a rap on the head with a mallet. Batfink gets
smoked out and knocked out as well. Hugo has a teeter totter with a block of ice
on one side and a tied-up Batfink and Karate on the other. Hugo uses the smoke
to melt the ice, sending Batfink and Karate down the cliff. The ice goes down,
too, and as it melts, Batfink comes to.
Daniel Boom, No. 67, June 21, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Dave Tendlar, Morey Reden. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Daniel
Boom disrupts a railroad's golden spike ceremony by booby-trapping the hammer
used to drive in the spike, which explodes. When Batfink sends out his radar it
returns with a stick of dynamite attached. It explodes, but the bulletproof
Batillac shields our heroes. Batfink precariously enters the seemingly
booby-trapped room, but gets hit with a 5000-lb. weight anyway. Daniel Boom
leads them into another booby-trapped room with six doors, only one of which is
an escape. Batfink chooses door No. 3, which is the correct door. Instead of
exiting the booby-trapped front door, he escapes out the chimney and apprehends Mr.
Boom. How could he tell? His wings act as a bomb detector.
First Batfink cartoon credited to animator Dave Tendlar, just recently off a stint at the Terrytoons studio. He would freelance for the remainder of his career on the West Coast.
Queenie Bee, No. 68, May 29, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Bill Ackerman. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Queenie
Bee, a woman with a beehive pocketbook, admires the painting of Mona Loser. The
bees come out of the pocketbook and sting the guards. It’s Queenie Bee, who
steals the painting. Next, she’s off to steal some scuplture, but first, she
lets her bees loose on Batfink’s beep - stinging only the EEP, but not the B -
a bee would never hurt a B. Batfink and Karate show up in beekeeper’s garb,
but Q.B. removes their hats and ties them up and suspends them over a barrel of
honey. Queenie cuts the rope, but the barrel breaks. The Beep closes the beehive
door and Karate locks it up for good.
The Thief From Baghdad, No. 69, June 26, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Dave Tendlar, Robert Taylor. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
The
Museum features the unveiling of the Idol's Eye ruby. A little man in a turban
and a flying carpet comes along. It's Sabubu, the Thief From Baghdad, who of
course steals the ruby. Batfink and Karate arrive on the scene. Sabubu puts
tacks into a meat grinder and shoots them at "Oh relative of rodents, oh
Bat of Fink!" Karate gets a hotfoot from some hot coals and later takes a
breather on a bed of nails. Both Batfink and Karate get knocked out with a bag
of sand and are thrown off Sabubu's flying carpet. On the way down Batfink's
wing tip snags and unravels both the carpet and Sabubu's plans.
The Mean Green Midget, No. 70, July 12, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Tom Golden, Arnie Levy. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
A
man gives the president of the First Buck Bank a flower that grabs money out of
the vault and deposits it outside into a waiting sack. Batfink, Karate and the
Chief witness first hand what the plant does. Batfink's radar leads to the
canning factory where the Mean Green Midget has a watermelon that squirts seeds
like a grapefruit, as well as a bumper crop of watermelons crossed with bowling
balls that flatten the crime fighters. The knocked-out Batfink and Karate are
about to be canned on a conveyor belt. Karate is sealed into a can, but not
Batfink - his wings are attracted by the magnet that lowers the lids on the can.
The Mean Green Midget is arrested and Karate is let out of his can.
Double Double Crossers, No. 71, June 8, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Myron Waldman. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Hugo
calls Batfink over to the lab. He tells Batfink that someone who looks like him
is about to rob the bank. Batfink calls the bank president just as Hugo is there
robbing the place. Batfink vouches for Hugo. Hugo reveals that the real Hugo
robbed the bank and the one that met Batfink at the lab was an imposter. The
twin Hugos chain up Batfink and Karate and try to blow them up by having the
robot Hugo hold the bomb. But the real Hugo has fooled himself. Karate can tell
the difference. Anyone who thinks they can foil Batfink must be a dummy.
The Baffling Bluffs Of Hugo A Go-Go, No. 72, August 15, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
At
the bank, Hugo steals a fortune using an ordinary fountain pen, claiming it’s
a new hi-tech weapon. Which is only good for squirting ink all over the
narrator. Hugo invites Batfink and Karate into his hideout. Is Hugo’s cufflink
a bluff? Yes. But inside the split pea soup Hugo has for lunch is one explosive
split pea. He hurls the pea at Karate and it doesn’t explode. Batfink finds
what he thinks the pea and throws it at Hugo. It doesn’t explode either -
Batfink was bluffing. The real pea blows
up in Karate’s face.
Napoleon Blownapart, No. 73, June 14, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Bill Ackerman. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Napoleon
Blownapart, the mad bomber, throws hand grenades at park statues. To look for
him, Karate assumes the pose of a statue he previously grenaded. He gets blown
up. N.B. ties Batfink and Karate to a Batfink statue and grenades it too. But
Batfink and Karate are protected by the statue's wings, which too are like a
shield of steel. Napoleon is taken down by a concrete discus.
The Atom Boom, No. 74, July 12, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, Jim Logan. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
Hugo
makes a white flag to surrender to Batfink and Karate. It’s a trick, of
course, to lure them into his new escape-proof Atom Boom. Hugo calls Batfink on
the hotline and invites him over. Hugo sends Karate out for some sodas while
locking Batfink in the Atom Boom. He shows that the white flag of surrender has
a skull and crossbones on the other side. The Atom Boom goes off. The narrator
stalls for Karate to return with the sodas. But Batfink reversed the polarity of
the detonator wires while the narrator stopped the action.
Magneto The Magnificent, No. 75, July 26, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Dave Tendlar, Morey Reden. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
Magneto
wears magnetic gloves to steal a metal jewelry box. Karate sprays Batfink’s
wings with anti-magnetism spray. Magneto applies a magnetic charge to
Batfink’s radar. At Magneto’s hideout, he puts Karate in a cage and tries to
snare Batfink by using his magnets on his wings, to no avail. But Magneto washes
off the spray and tries to magnetically melt the steel wings and Batfink with it
with a super magnet. Magneto tries to bring Karate’s cage over for a closer
look, but attracts all the junk that’s been cluttering up his utilty sleeve,
one item of which throws the switch for the magnetron off.
Hugo The Crimefighter, No. 76, June 21, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Myron Waldman. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
Hugo
A Go Go is trying to steal the world’s rarest coin from a museum. When another
criminal horns in on the action, police arrive to find what appears to be Hugo
catching the other criminal. Hugo is given a Crimefighter Of The Year award. He
dons a green cape and fakes a dynamite rescue. The Chief is impressed enough to
promote Hugo to the city’s crimefighter. Batfink loses his hotline and Karate
becomes Hugo’s assistant! The Chief calls Hugo on the hotline and tells him
there’s been no crime (no surprise there with Hugo on the right side of the
law); meanwhile a disconsolate Batfink shows up begging for work. He faints.
Hugo and Karate show up at Batfink’s bedside bearing gifts: Karate has a fruit
basket, but Hugo - not such a crimefighter after all - has a bomb to blow up
both Batfink and Karate. Hugo shoots Karate with a paralyzing ray. At the last
minute Batfink revives himself and shields Karate with his wings. Turns out
Batfink faked the whole illness thing and knew all along that Hugo would never
go straight. The Chief will give Batfink the Crimefighter Of The Year cup after
he takes Hugo’s name off it.
The Trojan Horse Thief, No. 77, July 12, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Tom Golden, Arnie Levy. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
What’s
this? A Trojan Horse, which steals the city treasury. Inside the Trojan horse is
Hugo A Go Go. The horse’s tail breaks up Batfink’s beep, but Batfink can
still tail it because the beep can speak broken English. Karate tries to lasso
the horse. Batfink maneuvers the Batillac in front of the Trojan horse; Hugo
picks the car up in the horse’s jaws and heads for the nearest cliff. In
mid-fall, Batfink sends out his radar to open the gate of the dam and provide a
softer landing surface.
The Zap Sap, No. 78, September 12, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Martin Taras, James Logan. Scenics: Bill Focht. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Dennis Marks.
A
flying saucer sends the city into panic. The spaceman emerges and robs a bank.
It’s Hugo, who destroys a Hugo dummy to fool Batfink. Hugo lands the saucer.
Batfink, thinking that Hugo is gone and it’s a real spaceman with plutonium
bullets in his pistol, allows himself to be shot. But Batfink’s reasoning is
correct; the bullets deflect off his wings and he apprehends Hugo.
Unhappy Birthday, No. 79, June 26, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Myron Waldman. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
What
a nice guy Hugo A Go Go is to remember Batfink's birthday! And he's got loads of
presents for his favorite crimefighter. The first is a hand grenade in a
birthday package left at Batfink's front door. Another explosion seals up the
cave, but the Chief calls just as Batfink begins gasping for air. At Hugo's, the
presents just keep on coming. Next is a 21-gun salute that doesn't harm Batfink
and Karate. The final one is a giant 7-layer (four layers cement, three layers
of lead) birthday cake that traps our heroes. As an added bonus Hugo has lit one
candle on the cake - a stick of dynamite! Using the jack from the Batillac,
Karate jacks up the cake and Batfink's birthday turns out to be a rather happy
one.
Buster The Ruster, No. 80, July 26, 1967. Produced And Directed by Hal Seeger. Production Supervisor: Ray Seti. Animation: Dave Tendlar, Frank Endres. Scenics: Bob Owen. Voices: Len Maxwell, Frank Buxton. Story: Heywood Kling.
Buster
The Ruster has stolen a bust of General Custer by rusting out the door of the
safe where it’s stored. He also rusts away a policeman’s gun and attempts to
do the same to Batfink’s beep and his stainless steel wings. Buster tries to
rust out the basement floor (there are sharks in his sub-basement). But the
floor piece Buster rusted out gets stuck in his mouth, giving Batfink time to
saw away the chains that entrap him and Karate.
Make Up Your Mind: Batfink claiming his wings are stainless steel are in direct conflict with Out Out, Darn Spot in which he says his wings are NOT stainless steel.