Jonny Quest - The Curse of Anubis 1964

Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest was an science fiction adventure show that felt like a Saturday Morning Hammer Horror movie.

Said to have been inspired in part from action radio and pulp, I wonder why its so unique in 1960s Western cartoons?

Curse of Anubis has a sweet plot. Dr Quest is invited to Egypt to check out a find, but really, he has been invited to play the patsy. However, things don't go as planned...

The loud thumping music to the mummy's walk adds a lot of impact to the threat.

Jonny Quest originally ran on ABC during primetime, but it was about the last for 25 years.

The show was created by then 40 year old Doug Wildey, who was coming from comic books, often Western comics.

Apparently, Doug Wildey was encouraged to see Joe Barbera, who wanted to do a more realistic animated series. "Could you do something like a modern version of Jack Armstrong?" was the idea. The radio serial ran for almost 20 years until 1951, and sold a lot of Wheaties

Now, I'm not familiar with Jack Armstrong, All-American Boy, but the idea is:

An industrialist travels about the globe, bringing his high school nephew and two friends (one boy, one girl) with him.

Anyone listened to this radio show?

Now Wildey did not design the dog, and seems like wants little to do with Bandit. He had envisioned a small white cheetah and a monkey.

Some of this information is coming from an interview posted by Jim Korkis, an animation historian, and there is another interview from Amazing Heroes, but not sure who the interviewer was.

The exciting snippets in the credits that never actually happen in the series seem to have been made for a test to actually make "Jack Armstrong". However, as Marvel and DC can tell you, never license something when you can just make your own.