Bakshi's Mighty Heroes!


It's sometimes amazing to me what has not been officially collected over the past few decades when comics and cartoons have spilled onto the marketplace in trades, dvds, and ginormous omnibuses. With the pedigree they have The Mighty Heroes should be a cartoon series I can get delivered today in a handsome DVD set with interviews and background information and the lot of it. In absence of an official collection I did pick up The Mighty Heroes Declassified. 


It's a slender volume, but in this instance it offers up some pretty good details. In addition to an episode by episode summary it has an interview with Ralph Bakshi, the guy who nursed the series into existence for Terrytoons and whose madness defines its oddball appeal.


In addition to this little book it seems Amazon Prime has added the series to its roster. Having a dozen or so of the episodes so ready to see on my TV screen is a grand treat and I've finished watching them all through, though not necessarily in order.


I still want a physical DVD and a nifty trade of the comic book adventures too. I would love to read more about the wiley Diaper Man, the relentless Strong Man,  the resourceful Rope Man,  the doughty Tornado Man and the always unreliable Cuckoo Man.


But maybe in time.

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