Jim heads to the vault for stories about the Disney hero of the early 1980s.
Toy Story Toons: Small Fry is a theatrical short featuring the Pixar Toy Story characters that was released with the Disney film The Muppets in November 2011.
At a fast food restaurant called Poultry Palace, Buzz Lightyear gets lost in the ball pit play area. Crawling through the vent system in an attempt to reunite with his friends, he falls into a storage room where a fast food-toy support group is meeting.
One of the discarded toys is Condorman, voiced by Bob Bergen (the primary voice in recent years for Porky Pig). Obviously some sort of superhero, the big-headed, smiling figure is sitting in an elaborate yellow car.
It is understandable if some viewers felt the character was Pixar's attempt at creating an original superhero or some type of homage to Hanna-Barbera 1960s superhero characters like Birdman or the Blue Falcon.
In actuality, Condorman was the first Disney movie superhero who appeared only once in a rarely seen 1981 live action film simply titled Condorman.
When the Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Comics in 2009, The Amazing Spider-Man editor Stephen Wacker lobbied aggressively in issue #691 to have Condorman brought into the Marvel Universe but his pleas were unanswered.
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