genre birdman and the galaxy trio
Super Friends is an American animated ___MASK12___ about a team of superheroes , which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup . It was produced by Hanna - Barbera and was based on the Justice League of America ( JLA ) and associated ___MASK30___ book characters published by DC Comics . A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American ___MASK30___ books and sometimes possesses superhuman abilities . A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero . ___MASK2___ Network is an American basic cable and satellite ___MASK45___ channel that operates daily from 6 : 00 AM to 8 : 00 PM ( ET / PT ) and is owned by Time Warner through the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary . It was launched on October 1 , 1992 . The Herculoids is an American Saturday - morning animated - ___MASK2___ ___MASK12___ , created and designed by Alex Toth , that was produced by Hanna - Barbera Productions . The show debuted on September 9 , 1967 on CBS . Hanna - Barbera produced one season for the original airing of the show , although the original 18 episodes were rerun during the 1968  69 television season , with " The Herculoids " ending its run on September 6 , 1969 . Eleven new episodes were produced in 1981 as part of the " Space Stars " show . The plotlines are rooted in ___MASK4___ , and have story direction and content similar to " Jonny Quest " and " Space Ghost ". In modern popular ___MASK96___ , a superhero ( sometimes rendered super - hero or super hero ) is a type of costumed heroic character who possesses supernatural or superhuman powers and who is dedicated to fighting crime , protecting the public , and usually battling supervillains . A female superhero is sometimes called a superheroine ( also rendered super - heroine or super heroine ). ___MASK96___ centered on such characters , especially in American comic books since the 1930s , is known as superhero ___MASK96___ . Sealab 2021 is an American animated ___MASK12___ created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson . It was shown on Cartoon Network ' s late - night programming block , ___MASK41___ Swim . Cartoon Network aired the show ' s first three episodes in December 2000 before the official inception of the ___MASK41___ Swim channel on September 2 , 2001 , with the final episode airing on April 25 , 2005 . " Sealab 2021 " is a spin - off of " Space Ghost Coast to Coast ", and is one of the four original Williams Street series that premiered in 2000 before ___MASK41___ Swim officially launched , the others being " Aqua Teen Hunger Force ", " The Brak Show " and " Harvey Birdman , Attorney at ___MASK74___ ". Hanna - Barbera Productions , Inc . ( simply known as Hanna - Barbera and also referred to as H - B Enterprises , H - B Production Company and Hanna - Barbera Cartoons ), was an American ___MASK20___ studio that dominated American television ___MASK20___ for three decades in the mid - to - late 20th century , founded in 1957 by former Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer ___MASK20___ directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ( creators of " Tom and Jerry ") and live - action director George Sidney in partnership with Screen Gems , television arm of Columbia Pictures . Sold to Taft Broadcasting in late 1966 , it spent the next two decades as its subsidiary . The Big Three ___MASK45___ networks are the three major traditional commercial broadcast ___MASK45___ networks in the United States : ABC , CBS and NBC . Beginning in 1948 until the late 1980s , the Big Three networks dominated U . S . ___MASK45___ . The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago , Illinois , United States located at 454 North Columbus Drive ( 455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building ) in downtown Chicago ' s Magnificent Mile area . Completed in 1989 , the 37 - story building reaches a height of 627 feet ( 191 m ). NBC ' s Chicago offices , studios , and owned - and - operated station WMAQ - TV are located here as of 1989 and on October 1 , 1989 , WMAQ - TV broadcast their first newscast at 10 pm that evening at their new home , NBC Tower with the then - weeknight ___MASK50___ team of Ron Magers , Carol Marin , John Coleman and Mark Giangreco . Later , Telemundo O & O WSNS - TV since their 2002 purchase by NBC . Formerly its former ___MASK6___ sister WMAQ / WSCR was located here . NBC ' s former Chicago FM property , WKQX and its sister station WLUP ___MASK48___ move their studios to the NBC Tower in the summer of 2016 . An American ___MASK30___ book is a thin ( typically 32 - page ) periodical containing primarily comics content . A ___MASK45___ network is a telecommunications network for distribution of ___MASK45___ program content , whereby a central operation provides programming to many ___MASK45___ stations or pay ___MASK45___ providers . Until the mid - 1980s , ___MASK45___ programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small number of broadcast networks . Many early ___MASK45___ networks ( such as the BBC , NBC or CBC ) evolved from earlier ___MASK6___ networks . ___MASK96___ is the classification for any story or ___MASK19___ derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on history or fact . ___MASK96___ can be expressed in a ___MASK38___ of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " fiction ), including the novel , novella , short story , and play . ___MASK96___ constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , fiction is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of fiction is generally open to interpretation , due to fiction ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between fiction and non - fiction . ___MASK96___ is a classification or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary fiction form . The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American commercial broadcast ___MASK45___ network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered in the Comcast Building ( formerly known as the GE Building ) at Rockefeller Center in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at Universal City Plaza ), Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and soon in Philadelphia at Comcast Innovation and ___MASK95___ Center . The network is part of the Big Three ___MASK45___ networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the " Peacock Network ", in ___MASK51___ to its stylized peacock logo , which was originally created in 1956 for its then - new color broadcasts and became the network ' s official emblem in 1979 . ___MASK63___ Ghost is a fictional character created by Hanna - Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s . A cartoonist ( also ___MASK35___ creator ) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons . This work is often created for ___MASK92___ , political commentary , or ___MASK22___ . Cartoonists may work in many formats , such as animation , booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , graphic design , illustrations , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , and video game packaging . A ___MASK30___ book or comicbook , also called ___MASK30___ magazine or simply ___MASK30___ , is a publication that consists of ___MASK30___ art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes . Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written ___MASK1___ , usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form . Although some origins in 18th century Japan and 1830s Europe , ___MASK30___ books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s . The first modern ___MASK30___ book , " Famous Funnies ", was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor ___MASK30___ strips , which had established many of the story - telling devices used in comics . The term " ___MASK30___ book " derives from American ___MASK30___ books once being a compilation of ___MASK30___ strips of a humorous tone ; however , this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres , usually not humorous in tone . Harvey Birdman , Attorney at ___MASK74___ is an American animated television series comedy created by Michael Ouweleen and Erik Richter for Adult Swim . The show revolves around the activity of the Sebben & Sebben ___MASK74___ firm , which is staffed mainly by superheroes and other characters who had originally been featured in past Hanna - Barbera cartoons , most notably " Birdman and the Galaxy Trio ". Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 highrise commercial buildings covering between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City . Commissioned by the Rockefeller ___MASK76___ , it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan , spanning the area between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue . It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987 . Comcast Corporation ( formerly registered as Comcast Holdings ) is an American global telecommunications conglomerate that is the largest broadcasting and cable ___MASK45___ company in the world by revenue . It is the second - largest pay - TV company after the AT & T - DirecTV acquisition , largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States , and the nation ' s third - largest home telephone service provider . Comcast services U . S . residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia . The company ' s headquarters are located in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011 , Comcast is a producer of feature films and ___MASK45___ programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over - the - air and cable ___MASK45___ broadcast . Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is an animated ___MASK37___ ___MASK12___ created by Alex Toth and produced by Hanna - Barbera . It debuted on NBC on September 9 , 1967 , and ran on Saturday mornings until September 6 , 1969 . The program consists of two segments : Birdman , depicting the adventures of a winged ___MASK37___ powered by the sun , and The Galaxy Trio , centering on the exploits of three extraterrestrial superheroes . NBC ran two new segments of Birdman each Saturday , separated by a segment of The Galaxy Trio . The character of Birdman was revived three decades later in the Cartoon Network / ___MASK41___ Swim TV series Harvey Birdman , Attorney at ___MASK74___ , and several characters from Birdman and the Galaxy Trio appeared in this revival . ___MASK63___ Ghost Coast to Coast is an American animated ___MASK32___ talk show , created by Mike Lazzo and hosted by the 1960s Hanna - Barbera cartoon character ___MASK63___ Ghost . Though the original 1960s series aired as a standard Hanna - Barbera Saturday - morning superhero cartoon , " ___MASK63___ Ghost Coast to Coast " was a total reboot of the series intended for adults , now reinterpreted as a surreal spoof talk show and produced using the original artwork . ___MASK37___ ___MASK96___ is a genre mainly originating in and most common to American comic books , though it has expanded into through adaptations and original works . Alexander " Alex " Toth ( June 25 , 1928  May 27 , 2006 ) was an American cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s . Toth ' s work began in the American ___MASK30___ book industry , but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna - Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s . His work included " Super Friends ", " Space Ghost ", " The Herculoids " and " Birdman ". Toth ' s work has been resurrected in the late - night , adult - themed spin - offs on Cartoon Network : " Space Ghost Coast to Coast ", " Sealab 2021 " and " Harvey Birdman , Attorney at Law ". NBCUniversal ( colloquially referred to as NBCU or NBCUni and formerly written as NBC Universal ) is an American multinational media conglomerate . Headquartered in Rockefeller Plaza ' s Comcast Building ( formerly the GE Building ) in Midtown Manhattan , New York City , the company is one of two successor companies to MCA Inc . ( ___MASK98___ Corporation of America ), the other being Vivendi through its subsidiary Universal ___MASK98___ Group .