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Comic Mint your best source for rare, kooky, and classic animation art, is pleased to offer Jay Ward fans this treasure from the past.

Hardly any Crusader Rabbit art survives, which was animated in Mexico, and this is one of the hardest to find Jay Ward Crusader Rabbit Scene Cels, which was released in the 1980s.

Crusader Rabbit is the white rabbit with upright ears and in knight’s armour. He was TV's first animated series and premiered on a local Los Angeles station on 8/1/49 and began national syndication in 1950.
Lucille Bliss (the voice of Smurfette) was the original voice of Crusader Rabbit.

Since very few production cels survived, the Jay Ward Studio produced a series of hand-inked and hand-painted "Scene Cels” which were sold at their Dudley Do-Right Emporium on Sunset Blvd during the 1980's. This vintage cel measures 12.5" x 10.5” inches (unframed), and has the Jay Ward Studio gold seal in the lower right corner.

BACKGROUND INFO:
J Troplong "Jay" Ward (September 20, 1920 – October 12, 1989) was an American creator and producer of animated television cartoons. He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Peabody and Sherman, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick and Super Chicken.

His company, Jay Ward Productions, also designed the trademark characters for Cap'n Crunch, Quisp and Quake breakfast cereals and made commercials for those products, among others. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers that featured comedy redubbing of silent films.