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He played Proto One in Star Wars: Droids; Mr. Ribbons and additional voices in Rupert; Pyro in X-Men: The Animated Series; and Luther Silk and additional voices in Ultraforce. He also provided voices for My Pet Monster.
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He began his career at DC Comics at just 14-years-old and went on to revitalize rival Marvel Comics as editor-in-chief. His adherence to absolute editorial control made him a polarizing figure to other creatives and he was eventually fired. He then found Valiant Comics and later Defiant Comics. Characters and concepts he created went on to be featured in various media, including Secret Wars and the Beyonder in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, with the latter also a central character in Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur; Esper Lass, Ferro Lad, Karate Kid, Nemesis Kid, Controller, Grimbor the Chainsman, Mordru, Chemical King, The Dark Circle, The Fatal Five, and The Dominion alien race in Legion of Super Heroes; Parasite (Raymond Jensen) in Young Justice; Tabitha Smith in X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men; and Henry Peter Gyrich in X-Men: The Animated Series.
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Best known for his prolific runs on The Incredible Hulk, Supergirl and Star Trek comics and novels, and as the co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and the evil Hulk, the Maestro. Characters he co-created, such as The Nasty Boys and a version of X-Factor, appeared on X-Men: The Animated Series. He also wrote several episodes of Young Justice, a comic series he previously wrote for DC Comics. Spider-Man Unlimited, in its early planning stages, was originally going to based on Spider-Man 2099.
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He had co-created numerous characters that would find themselves adapted to television and film, including Mary Jane Watson, the Shocker, Wilson Fisk, the Punisher and Wolverine, as well as original character Firestar who began on screen and ended up in the comics. He served as an art consultant on Spider-Man (1967), and was art director for Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.
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| The X-Men have come to play! |
The
Spider-Man cartoons since the 1980s continued this tradition. In his animated
adventures he’s met Captain
America, Dr.
Strange, Daredevil,
the Hulk,
the Punisher,
and even ushered in the first Blade appearance
outside of comics (predating Wesley
Snipes, even). But the most unprecedented crossover came during the
two-part Spider-Man:
The Animated Series episodes “The Mutant Agenda” and “Mutants’ Revenge”
when Spider-Man (Christopher
Daniel Barnes) met the uncanny X-Men! Now,
Spidey has met the X-Men twice before in Spider-Man
and His Amazing Friends as part of Marvel Productions’
attempt to get a network interested in a series about them. What made this
encounter so unique was it was the first time a Marvel show crossed over with
another as these were the X-Men from fellow Fox Kids program, X-Men:
The Animated Series (albeit slightly off-model when compared between
the shows).
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| Mo' mutants, mo' problems. |
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| Iron Man and War Machine, from their own show (top) to Spidey's. |
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| Spidey teaming-up with the Marvel Universe. |
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A star of stage and screen, he was probably best known for his role of Magneto in X-Men: The Animated Series. Additionally, he played the Vaultkeeper and several minor roles in the second season of Tales from the Cryptkeeper; Baron DeKlaus in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Supreme Intelligence and Husserl in Silver Surfer; Mack Salmon in an episode of The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police; and Hephaestus, a royal hunter and a villager in Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend. He also provided additional voices for WildC.A.T.S.: Covert Action Teams and The NeverEnding Story (1995).
MARGARET
LOESCH
(March
28, 1946- )
Notable
Roles: NBC executive, Executive Vice President of
Hanna-Barbera, President and CEO of Marvel Productions, Founding President and
CEO of Fox Kids Networks, President of the Jim Henson Television Group,
President and CEO of Hallmark Channel, Founding President and CEO of The Hub
Network, Executive Chairman of Kartoon Channel
Initially
studying political science at the University of
Southern Mississippi and international relations and urban development at Louisiana State University, Loesch ended up as
a clerk-typist for ABC in 1971. After hours,
she’d stay with the film editors where she was shown their processes. She would
eventually get a full education on production when promoted to the promo
department developing sales films and on-air promos. In 1979, a former ABC
colleague invited her over to NBC to work as
a manager in the children’s programs department. While her efforts went
unappreciated at the network, Hanna-Barbera liked her
style and invited her to work for them any time she wanted. Loesch took them up
on the offer and they created the position of head of children’s programs,
later executive vice president. With them, Loesch would end up providing NBC
with one of their biggest Saturday morning hits: The Smurfs. In 1984,
Loesch moved further up the ladder when she was offered the position of
president and CEO of Marvel
Productions. That move allowed her to achieve the often-refuted goal of
adapting Kermit the
Frog for animation when CBS’ Judy
Price wanted to commission the show Muppet
Babies. Although Marvel was able to churn out several programs based on
Hasbro properties—My Little Pony, G.I. Joe, A Real American
Hero, Transformers
and Jem—it
was an uphill battle to get any of Marvel
Comics’ own properties to the small screen; especially the X-Men. In 1990, Loesch
joined the Fox subsidiary Fox Children’s Network as its
division president. There, she oversaw the launch and development of the
successful programming block Fox Kids. She was able to translate that success
into finally getting X-Men:
The Animated Series onto the airwaves, as well as Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers (which Marvel Productions tried to option years
prior in its original Super Sentai
form)—both tremendous hits for the network. After Saban Entertainment
took ownership of the division in 1997, Loesch went to work for the Jim Henson
Television Group where she oversaw the conversion of the Odyssey
Channel into the Hallmark
Channel. In 2003, Loesch and Bruce Stein formed The Hatchery, LLC,
a media production company owned by American
Greetings and Mandalay Entertainment
focused on family-oriented entertainment. They would produce Dan Vs. and R.L. Stein’s The Haunting
Hour for The
Hub; a joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications. Loesch was
appointed chief executive officer of the network, where she remained until
stepping down in 2014. In 2015, Loesch was named to Genius Brands’ international board of
directors, replacing president and COO of American Greetings Jeff Weiss. The
following year, she became the executive chairman of the Kids Genius Channel,
which became Kartoon
Channel in 2020. Loesch had also served on the board of trustees for Sesame Workshop, makers of Sesame
Street, and is the vice chair of the Emmy Foundation.
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