About: Adventure Cartoon Productions

Adventure Cartoon Productions was a production company that created the cartoon series The Mighty Hercules, created in 1962 and distributed by Trans-Lux Television, it then debuted on TV in 1963 and ran until 1966. Joe Oriolo, who produced the TV Felix the Cat series, and , previously an associate of Jay Ward, were involved in the company; along with and the colorfully named . The cartoons were made in New York City, and employed several veteran artists (including freelancers and possibly moonlighters) connected with Paramount Pictures and Terrytoons cartoons. The company used stock music by Winston Sharples derived from his scores for Paramount cartoons of the 1950s, also heard in many other New York-made cartoons of the time.