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Like the property it’s based on, as well as the animated series it takes inspiration from, Jim Lee’s Wild C.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams is a relic of 90’s pop culture that’s a passable, but also pretty forgettable, entry in the at the time saturated beat-em-up genre. In 1995 towards the tail end of the 16-bit console cycle, the publisher would bring Wild C.A.T.S to the SNES. In 1994 they helped bring Shiny Entertainment’s Earthworm Jim to market where it impressed with its bizarre sense of humour and cutting edge “animotion”. Toys it seemed, weren’t enough for Playmates, who wished to branch out their portfolio into the world of video games. Now that I think of it, doesn’t that sound a little too much like Hellspawn? Anyway, while not remembered or spoke about much today, it spawned a one season animated series that ran on CBS as well as a line of action figures from Playmates, the same company that gave us the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys. It was there that Jim Lee created Wild C.A.T.S, a series about super powered aliens protecting the world against being invaded from evil alien forces known as Daemonites led by Lord Helspont. Lee was one of the creators along with Todd McFarlane (Spawn) and Rob Liefeld (co-creator of Deadpool) who left Marvel to form Image comics. Who better than to try to make the next X-Men then the person who helped it reach astronomical sales figures: Jim Lee. Marvel’s merry band of mutants were easily one of the most popular and best selling comics of the era, with countless spin-off titles, a line of action figures, video games and who could forget the long running animated series on Fox Kids. The rush to be the next Ninja Turtles was one thing in the 90’s, but the desire to be the next X-Men was another.
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