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Lil' Eightball

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Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox File:Lil' Eightball - Silly Superstition (1939).webm Lil' Eightball is a Walter Lantz character voiced by Mel Blanc, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "The Stubborn Mule" in 1939.[1] His final appearance was in 1939, in "A Haunting We Will Go". He is a racially offensive caricature of an African-American child.

"A Haunting We Will Go" is the first Walter Lantz cartoon made in three-strip Technicolor. From this point onward, all of the Lantz cartoons would be produced in color.

Film appearances

  • "The Stubborn Mule" (July 3, 1939)[2][3]
  • "Silly Superstition" (August 28, 1939)[2][4]
  • "A Haunting We Will Go" (September 4, 1939)[2][5]

Comic books

Lil' Eightball first appeared in comic books in Dell Comics' The Funnies issue #64 (May 1942), appearing on both the cover and in a story inside.[6] Lil' Eightball then appeared in Lantz's monthly anthology comic book New Funnies starting with issue #65 (July 1942). [7]

Responding to pressure from the African American community, the character was dropped from New Funnies. The last appearance of the character was in issue #126, the August 1947 issue.[8]

Reception

Responding in 1947 to a group of eight-year-old schoolchildren who had complained about the character, Dell's managing editor Oskar Lebeck wrote:

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See also

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