A new Fantastic Four cartoon show is about to debut. I have no idea if it'll be any good but its press releases are a little screwy. Here's an excerpt from one of them…
The original 1967 animated action-adventure series, THE FANTASTIC FOUR, premiered on ABC with 19 half-hour episodes produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with Marvel Comics. The complex characters were conceived by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, who then enlisted the help of Hanna-Barbera to create a half-hour broadcast network series. It was faithful to the source, featuring plots and characters straight from the original comics series and complete with character designs from the late acclaimed artist Alex Toth.
Itemizing the bad phraseology may be unnecessary for readers of this site but just in case: The Fantastic Four property was indeed created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby…but it was created in 1961 with Kirby handling the character designs and no Hanna-Barbera involvement. Years later, a cartoon show was produced by H-B, which is when Mr. Toth's design work was done in '67 as he distilled the Kirby models down for animation purposes, not as part of the creation of the characters. Also, there were twenty episodes (not 19) produced.
I never know what to make of things like this. Even if they handed the job of writing the press release to someone who knew nothing about the comic book or its first animated version, you could find all this info with about two minutes of Googling. The show is financed by a French studio and produced over there so I'm guessing the problem is that the press release was authored in that language and then someone did a bad translation job. Makes you wonder if wars don't sometimes get fought because of mistakes of this sort.