Lil' Eightball
Lil' Eightball is a Walter Lantz character voiced by Mel Blanc, who made his first appearance in the cartoon "The Stubborn Mule" in 1939. His final appearance was in 1939, in "A Haunting We Will Go". He is a caricature of an African-American child. "A Haunting We Will Go" is the first Walter Lantz cartoon made in three-strip Technicolor. From this point onward, all of the Lantz cartoons would be produced in color. List of appearances: Lil' Eightball appeared on the cover of Lantz's monthly anthology comic book "New Funnies" (published by Dell Comics), from  at least issue #65 (July 1942). Responding in 1947 to a group of eight-year-old schoolchildren who had complained about Eight Ball, Dell's managing editor Oskar Lebeck wrote: The last appearance of the character was in issue #126, the August 1947 issue.