Just exactly how grateful did Evel Knievel make the mayor's daughter??? Posted 2010/07/20 @ 10:00 PM By Myles Kornblatt
While visiting the Evel Knievel tribute at the Harley-Davidson Museum we came across a 1969 storyboard proposal for a TV cartoon. The plot is pretty simple: mayor’s daughter gets kidnapped, the villains blow up the only bridge on their way out of town, and now the only person who can save her is the super hero with a rocket-powered motorcycle. This all seems like good, clean fun for a kid’s cartoon, until we see how the mayor’s daughter feels about her rescue:
In the cartoon’s defense, the exhibit doesn't label this as a children’s program.
Anyone who’s ever seen the show Mad Men could easily imagine the hard-drinking, chain-smoking super-slick TV executives who were in charge during this era. These guys probably created this illustration for their own amusement (or to help sway the opinion of the notorious Knievel.) None of them would have ever expected this to be hanging on the wall of a museum/memorabilia exhibit. But if any of those guys saw it now, they would just have a little chuckle and pour three fingers of Scotch.
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