Public Domain Super Heroes
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Claude Hopper

Real Name

Claude Hopper

First Appearance

Hop and Go (March 27, 1943)

Original Publisher

Warner Bros. Pictures

Created by

Norman McCabe, Melvin Millar, & Don Christensen

Origin[]

Claude Hopper, a kangaroo and the "best darn hopper in the world," is narcissistic and dumb, so a couple of Scottish rabbits take him on. They set up a boxing ring; Claude gets tangled in the ropes. Next, he tries a distance leap, but the rabbits ride on his tail, then leap over as he lands. He tries again, without all the ballast in his pouch, but they have stuck his tail down with chewing gum. Claude falls into the river; the rabbits wash up in his water-filled pouch. Now they start coaching him. First, he is launched from a see-saw, bouncing off a blimp and right through the meat price ceiling; he lights a match to find out where he is and attracts anti-aircraft fire. The rabbits had given him a case of dynamite as "ballast"; he pulls it out and tosses it away to fall on Tokyo.

Public Domain Animated Appearances[]

  • Hop and Go (1943)

Notes[]

  • Hop and Go was the final Warner Bros. short to feature the voice of Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Goofy, before he returned to Disney later that year.
  • This cartoon entered the public domain in 1971 due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright in time.

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