| GENUS PEDIGREE: |
Anthropomorphized Turtle and Rabbit. |
| KNOWN ALIASES: |
"Slowpoke" (Toby); The Blue Streak (named for the blue streak of dust and light he leaves in his wake); "Speedy's my middle name" (Max). |
| KNOWN RELATIVES: |
unknown |
| KNOWN PETS: |
unknown
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| CITIZENSHIP: |
unknown
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| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: |
unknown
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| KNOWN RIVALS: |
unknown
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| PARAPHERNALIA: |
unknown |
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| 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: |
"The Boarding-School Mystery" in the Silly Symphony Sunday strip, beginning Dec. 23, 1934; and their first comicbook appearance was in "Silly Symphonies" #1 (Dell Giant - Sep. 1952). |
| 1st FILM APPEARANCE: |
"The Tortoise and the Hare" (1935 - Silly Symphony); "Toby Tortoise Returns" (1936); "Mickey's Polo Team" (1936 - Max only); "Mickey's Christmas Carol" (1983); and "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (1988 - Toby only).
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| VOICE ACTOR: |
unknown
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| SIGNATURE: |
"The Blue Streak" (Max); "Slow, but sure." (Toby).
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: |
Max is flashy, cocky and very arrogant; Toby is shy, kind and gullible. Both became embroiled in a competition to see who was fastest. The Aesopian tale proved Max's cockiness was his downfall, while Toby's surefooted, steady endurance made him the winner. In their second meeting, during a boxing match, Toby's endurance proved him a winner once more. Max Hare and Toby Tortoise headlined a comic story of their own
called "The Boarding-School Mystery" in the Silly Symphony Sunday strip,
beginning Dec. 23, 1934. There Max's would-be girlfriend, Carrie, appears,
although she can't really be called his girlfriend per se -- his bragging
turns her off. |
| HISTORICAL FACTS: |
unknown |
| LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: |
In British Disney comics of the 1930s Goofy and Toby Tortoise teamed up as detectives for a while. Max Hare was created about four years before Warner Bros. created Bugs Bunny, and it is said that Max's cockiness was the inspiration for Bugs. |
| WORKING THEORIES: |
none |
Toby Tortoise & Max hare 