The third Mighty Mouse series is notorious for its humorous and satirical take on the Mighty Mouse character from the 1940s.\r
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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures is an American animated series that was produced by Bakshi-Hyde Ventures (a joint venture of animator Ralph Bakshi and producer John W. Hyde) and Terrytoons, it aired on CBS on Saturday mornings from fall 1987 through the 1988–89 season. It was briefly rerun on Saturday mornings on Fox Kids in November 1992 in America and overseas on Cartoon Network UK in April 1999.\r
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The show was considered revolutionary at the time, and, along with 1988s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, inspired a wave of animated shows that were much zanier than those that had dominated childrens animation in the previous two decades. It is credited by some as the impetus for the ‘creator-driven animation revolution of the 1990s.\r
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It was a huge springboard for many cartoonists and animators who would later become famous, including John Kricfalusi (creator of The Ren and Stimpy Show), Bruce W. Timm (producer of Warner Bros. Batman: The Animated Series), Jim Reardon (writer for Tiny Toon Adventures and Disney/Pixars Wall-E and director for The Simpsons), Tom Minton (writer and producer for many Warner Bros. television cartoons, including Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Baby Looney Tunes and Duck Dodgers), Lynne Naylor (co-founder of Spümcø, character designer for Batman: The Animated Series and storyboard artist for Cartoon Networks The Powerpuff Girls and Cow & Chicken among other work), Rich Moore (animation director for Fox/Comedy Centrals Futurama and director of Disneys Wreck-It Ralph), Andrew Stanton (director of Disney/Pixars Finding Nemo and Wall-E), and others.\r
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Kricfalusi supervised the production for the first season and directed eight of its twenty-six segments. Kent Butterworth supervised the second season, after John Kricfalusis departure to work on the similarly short-lived 1988 animated series The New Adventures of Beany & Cecil. The show was licensed as a comic book series published by Marvel Comics in 1990 and 1991, which ran for 10 issues.