Public Domain Super Heroes
The March Hares

Members

Drumming Hare, 4 Marching Hares

First Appearance

Who's Who in the Zoo (February 14, 1942)

Original Publisher

Warner Bros

Created by

Norman McCabe & Melvin Millar

Origin[]

2 other marching hares

The March Hares are a group of gag characters who march to a drumbeat. They were featured in the animated short Who's Who in the Zoo (1942).

Some of the other gags featured included include an American Indian Elephant, a "Missing Lynx", a down-on-his-luck "bum steer", and a bald eagle wearing a toupee.

The silly hare

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.