Max Hare
Toby Tortoise
Toby Tortoise & Max hare
| 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 | ||
| CITIZENSHIP: | unknown | ||
| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: | unknown | ||
| KNOWN RIVALS: | unknown | ||
| PARAPHERNALIA: | unknown | ||
| 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). | ||
| VOICE ACTOR: | unknown | ||
| SIGNATURE: | "The Blue Streak" (Max); "Slow, but sure." (Toby). | ||
| 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 |