5 curiosities about the DC League of Super-Pets

DC League of Super-Pets, the new animated film by DC and Warner Bros. starring the super-pets of the Justice League, will arrive on September 1st in all Italian cinemas. In the Italian version of the film Lillo will lend her voice to Krypto Supercane while Maccio Capatonda will dub Ace the Bat-Hound, while in the original version the voices will be Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Kevin Hart respectively. Let's find out 5 curiosities about DC League of Super-Pets: from the origin of the Super-Pets to their evolution in the most recent DC comics.

5 curiosities about DC League of Super-Pets

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Hoppy The Marvel Bunny, the first anthropomorphic animal to take on the role of a superhero

Although the idea of ​​heroes accompanying animals as sidekicks was in vogue since Golden Age, see for example Doctor Mid-nite and the faithful owl Hooty, the first anthropomorphic animal to take on the role of a superhero, following those of its human counterpart, was Hoppy The Marvel Bunny.

Created by Chad Grothkopf, Hoppy debuted in Fawcett's Funny Animals # 1 (cover date December 1942) when the publishing house decided to expand its range of action, adventure and superhero titles by occupying that slice of the market that Disney was starting to vehemently own. The peculiarity of Hoppy is that it is not a simple talking animal (the standard for the stories of the time, but his adventures were in effect a spin-off of Captain Marvel (today Shazam) or the most popular superhero comic. sold at the time.