Fawcett's comics were based on George Pal's popular animated series from the 1940's. Pal was an animation pioneer and worked with stop motion puppet animation in the 1930's and '40's. He became famous in Europe after creating several theatrical animated advertising shorts in The Netherlands for Philips Radio with producer Joop Geesink. When the Nazi's came to power, he immigrated to the US, where he was nominated seven times for an Academy Award for his animated shorts between 1942 and 1948, resulting in an Honorary Award for his 'Puppetoons' series in 1944. Later, he produced and directed several science fiction movies you might have seen, 'The War of the Worlds' in 1953 and 'The Time Machine' in 1960.
The Nutsy Squirrel cover was done by Rube Grossman, who had worked as an animator for the Fleischer studios in the 1930's and as a comic artist, also worked for Dell Comics/Western on titles like 'Hector Rooster' and 'The Mighty Hercules'. He also worked as a director (and animator) on the cartoon series of 'Mighty Hercules', produced by Joe Orioles between 1963 and 1966 (one of the animators working for the series was Grim Natwick).
128 Five minute episodes were produced by Adventure Cartoon Productions and Trans-Lux Television, who also created the animated cartoons of 'Felix the Cat' (where Grossman also worked on).
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