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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Who's Who in the Zoo (February 14, 1942) |
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Original Publisher |
Warner Bros |
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Created by |
Norman McCabe & Melvin Millar |
Origin[]
The Black Panther is a gag character featured in the animated short Who's Who in the Zoo (1942).
The Black Panther is drinking cream from its dish, then noticing the dish is aluminum and throwing it into a scrap pile, a reference to the Salvage for Victory campaign.
Some of the other gags featured included include an American Indian Elephant, a "Missing Lynx","March hares" who march to a drumbeat, a down-on-his-luck "bum steer", and a bald eagle wearing a toupee.
Who's Who in the Zoo is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce, particularly in the World War II era, that featured a series of loosely related gags, usually based on outrageous stereotypes and plays on words, as a narrator (in this case Robert C. Bruce) describes the action. The plot is substantially similar to that of 1939's A Day at the Zoo, except that Porky Pig appears as the zookeeper of the "Azusa Zoo.
Public Domain Animated Appearances[]
- Who's Who in the Zoo (1942)
Notes[]
- This cartoon entered the public domain in 1970 due to Warner Bros. not renewing the copyright.
- Despite Porky Pig being heavily featured in Who's Who in the Zoo, Porky himself does not enter the public domain until 2031 due to his first cartoon, I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), still being under copyright.