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Bakshi received a pay raise, but was not as satisfied with his career advancement as he had anticipated ; Rasinski had died in 1965, Bakshi did not have creative control over The Mighty Heroes, and he was unhappy with the quality of the animation, writing, timing and voice acting.
Although the series ' first two seasons were successful, Bakshi wanted to leave Terrytoons to form his own company.
In 1967, he drew up presentation pieces for a fantasy series called Tee-Witt, with help from Anzilotti, Johnnie Zago and Bill Foucht.
While leaving the network offices, he learned that Paramount Pictures had recently fired Shamus Culhane, the head of its animation division.
Bakshi enlisted comic book and pulp fiction artists and writers Harvey Kurtzman, Lin Carter, Gray Morrow, Archie Goodwin, Wally Wood and Jim Steranko to work at the studio.
After finishing Culhane's uncompleted shorts, he directed, produced, wrote and designed four short films at Paramount: The Fuz, Mini-Squirts, Marvin Digs and Mouse Trek.
Marvin Digs, which Bakshi conceived as a " flower-child picture ", was not completed the way he had intended: It " was going to have curse words and sex scenes, and a lot more than that.
Animation historian Michael Barrier called the film " an offensively bad picture, the kind that makes people who love animation get up and leave the theater in disgust ".
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