During last year's Cartoon Network week, I made a post focusing on print advertisements for CN during its early years. I've found a few more since then and now seems like the perfect time to show them off. Let's begin with this one, which declares that the toons are taking over. I don't know when this was issued, but from the formatting, I'd say it was sometime within the first three years of the channel premiering. At the very least, its aesthetic is pretty close to how the bumpers on the network looked during that time.
From around the same time comes this next one. I think this came from some sort of pamphlet, rather than a magazine, but it advertises the network all the same. This one informs the viewer of what shows and programming blocks they'll find on the channel. I believe this was from especially early on in the network's life.
This ad from 1997 advertises the channel not to viewers, but to advertisers, insisting that Cartoon Network's "toon power" is exactly what they need.
Last but definitely not least is this 1998 print ad, welcoming Batman: The Animated Series' debut on the network. I know this wasn't a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, nor was it even a CN original series, but quite frankly, it's too cool not to put it here. And you gotta love its play on Fred Flintstone's classic catchphrase.
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