March 2, 2018

Still A Mystery

Would you help me out today? Very good friends of ours own this mystery book from Hanna-Barbera, and even after all these years, they still haven't found answers they are looking for. 

 Her father was in accounting with HB in the 60s, and this book was given to her as a gift several years before he eventually passed away. The cover is shown above, the introduction page is inside. No table of contents. It has no year or publishing information.
The text and gazillions of character images cover television productions into the early 1970's. Our guess is it was an employee only issue, a thank you celebrating a major anniversary of the studio. Anyone have any ideas? If you do, you can be a hero... Thanks!
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2 comments:

  1. Matt8:26:00 AM

    One of these hit ebay a few years back – here's the old item description:

    http://vi.vipr.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemDescV4&item=332056598775&t=1481252816000&tid=10&category=1532&seller=auctiondoctors&excSoj=1&excTrk=1&lsite=0&ittenable=false&domain=ebay.com&descgauge=1&cspheader=1&oneClk=1&secureDesc=0

    I wanted to buy it but couldn't at the time. If your neighbor is looking to sell it, please let me know.

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  2. SWW4:51:00 PM

    Out of curiosity I did a simple google search: "Happy Kingdom of Hanna-Barbera" (be sure to include quotes) which yielded plenty of info about it on Flickr and several auction sites. For example:

    https://www.hakes.com/Auction/ItemDetail/84173/THE-HAPPY-KINGDOM-OF-HANNA-BARBERA-STYLE-GUIDELICENSING-BOOK

    and on Flickr

    "I suspect this licensing book was released several times in the 1970s, since the version i have includes cartoons released in 1976-1977 season. There is also a 1965 licensing book, that has some of the really early H/B cartoons (Ruff and Ready)."

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