31 Werewolves | Drak Pack

Hanna Barbera's monsters-as-superheroes cartoon, Drak Pack lasted a couple of seasons on CBS Saturday mornings in the early '80s. If features three high school students - Drak, Frankie, and Howler - who are actually descendants of classic monsters and "dedicated to reversing the evil image of their forefathers" by fighting the evil supervillain group, O.G.R.E.

When trouble appears, the three friends give each other the Drak Whack and transform into monster form. In keeping with the superhero theme, they have a flying, amphibious car and each of them has superpowers appropriate to his heritage. Drak's a telekinetic shape-changer, Frankie is super strong with electrical powers, and Howler the werewolf has a sonic howl and super breath.

31 Werewolves | Fangface

Fangface was a Saturday morning cartoon that ran for a couple of seasons in 1978-79. It was produced by Ruby-Spears, an animation production company started by a couple of guys from Hanna-Barbera. Ruby-Spears is best known for Fangface, the Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show (a favorite of mine as a kid), a short-lived and critically panned Superman cartoon, and the notorious Rubik the Amazing Cube. They also did the '80s version of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

I always liked the idea of Fangface more than the execution. Like a lot of Saturday morning cartoons in the '70s, it stole a lot from Scooby Doo, Where Are You with it's gang of teenagers who traveled around solving mysteries in a cool ride with a unique companion. (Funky Phantom is my favorite of these rip-offs, but that's a post for another year.)

Fangface is the werewolf name of one of the teenagers, cowardly Shaggy-analogue Sherman Fangsworth. Whenever Sherman sees the moon (or a picture of it or anything slightly similar to it) he spins around and turns into the Tasmanian Devil-like Fangface. He also has a weird habit of howling at himself any time he looks in the mirror. It was a bad, unoriginal show and we didn't watch it as kids until it got rolled in with the superior Plastic Man as part of his Comedy/Adventure Show. But what would childhood be without memories of awful cartoons?