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Oct 26, 2026
Will PrestonHOST
That rings a bell.
Rob HaldenHOST
Which was made by Marvel Productions.
Rob HaldenHOST
Mm.
Rob HaldenHOST
Outsourced to Toei Animation, who animated this.
Will PrestonHOST
Marvel would use the Japanese company to animate their own 80s cartoons, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, and The Pride of the X-Men pilot.
Will PrestonHOST
Marvel Productions would also outsource animation duties to Toei for major Saturday morning cartoons they were making like Dungeons and Dragons, Gem and the Holograms, G.I. Joe, and Transformers.
Rob HaldenHOST
Let's go behind the page now on this anime 1980s Dracula movie based on Marvel Comics from the 70s.
Rob HaldenHOST
We've talked several times on the podcast whenever we look at vampires and Blade and Ghost Rider, that there was this moral panic over horror comics in America and in Britain in the 50s and 60s, driven largely by the... disgraced no it wasn't disgraced but this german-american psychiatrist called frederick vertham who wrote a book the seduction of the innocent i remember about how
DeanHOST
Right, totally.
TimHOST
Now, Inhumanoids was produced by Sunbow Entertainment and Marvel Productions and was animated by Toei out of Japan.
TimHOST
And the show aired in a couple of different ways.
TimHOST
It started as part of the Super Sunday Shorts in late 1985, and it aired as short six to seven minute segments packaged inside the half hour Super Sunday animation block alongside Gem, Robotics, and Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines.
Robert N. SkirGUEST
It's awful
Marc ChildsHOST
... that came from Marvel Productions, and then obviously Mar-
Robert N. SkirGUEST
It's fucking awful.
Marc ChildsHOST
[laughs] You know-
Paul DavidsGUEST
But it took a long time for me.
Paul DavidsGUEST
I didn't, let's see, I was about 40 years old when Marvel Productions hired me to be the production coordinator for all of the Transformer cartoons.
Paul DavidsGUEST
79 Transformer cartoons.
Paul DavidsGUEST
I was involved in all the recording sessions.
JessicaHOST
So, yeah, it ran on CBS starting September 17, 1983.
JessicaHOST
It was co-produced by Marvel Productions and TSR.
JessicaHOST
And it was animated by Japan's Toei Animation, which I did not know.
JessicaHOST
That's cool.
Chris ZephroGUEST
They're really, um, that's a big passion of mine, always has been.
Chris ZephroGUEST
Um, I was a big Dungeons and Dragons player, and, um, when I was in seventh grade, uh, Luke Gygax moved from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin because his father, Gary, who created D&D, was in Los Angeles because they were doing a deal with Marvel Productions to do the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, which he was a producer on, so he was in Los Angeles kind of growing that And so, yeah, I, I still know, uh, Luke and I are still friends to this day.
Chris ZephroGUEST
In fact, we're gonna go see Iron Maiden on the 28th in LA.
Chris ZephroGUEST
And, um, yeah, I got to play a lot with, with, uh, with Gary.
Scott CarelliHOST
Yeah.
Nick JimenezHOST
Like, do I start with Marvel Comics filing for bankruptcy in 1996? Do I start with the, the founding of Marvel Productions in 1980? Do I start with Avi Arad, you know? And but then I was like, well, you know, we kinda did-- we kinda got into, like, the X- Avi Arad X-Men cartoon stuff with X-Men way back in the day.
Nick JimenezHOST
But-
Scott CarelliHOST
Yeah
Greg LaurieHOST
Oh, wow
Butch HartmanGUEST
... from Marvel Productions.
Greg LaurieHOST
Yeah.
Butch HartmanGUEST
Then I worked on, uh, I worked at Hanna-Barbera.