I'm cleaning a bit and found my old Hotwheels Flying Colors Double Dare set. It's amazing what I hold onto. I vaguely remember a Hot Wheels comic but I'm not sure if there was a Hotwheels TV show or if I'm getting it confused with Speedbuggy or Wonderbug.
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DC published the Hot Wheels comic. Alex Toth drew stories for most of the issues and Neal Adams drew the lead story for the last one. It was a bimonthly and ran a year.
Toth wrote and drew the lead story in #5, "The Case of the Curious Classic". I've seen it extravagantly praised, but it didn't do anything for me.
There are a few episodes on youtube. I only ever saw a single issue of that comic and never watched the series but I remember ads for it showing the new fall schedule.
Here's the theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2faOHCNFB6o
Nice theme song. Really wanted to make sure you knew what the product was.
I remember watching that show when I was a kid, but I never knew about a comics series until many (many) years later.
It's interesting what you forget, or just didn't see. I'm putting a TV guide from April 1970 on eBay and I looked at the listings for Saturday morning. Some I remember, some I knew of but never watched (Felix the Cat, channel 6 at 7:30 am). Some I never heard of. Grump, Ring-A-Ding, Sky Hawks... I remember Commander Benson did a column a while back on Rocket Robin Hood (channel 38, 10:00 am which I never watched as it was on opposite H.R. Puff-n-Stuff).
Felix, Rocket Robin Hood, and Pufnstuf are the only ones I've ever seen.
Grump was "Here Comes the Grump" staring Rip Taylor as the voice of the Grump. It was the very first cartoon I remember having seen; however, for years thereafter I chalked it up to my imagination, having no way to verify it existed. Nobody else my age remembered it. Many years later, when the internet became available, I was able to confirm not only the show itself, but the actual episode I had seen. In hindsight, it's not too hard to understand why it stuck in my mind at the time. The theme song repeated, over and over again "Here comes the Grump, the Grump, the Grump, the Grump. Here comes the Grump, the Grump, the Grump, the Grump"
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