As revealed in the origin story from Fawcett's Funny Animals # 1, Hoppy is a fan of Captain Marvel.

A panel in this story states " Because it was he who bestowed the magic word and power upon Hoppy, the Bunny Wizard flies down to Earth to help Hoppy ".

In the lead story of that issue, Hoppy faces Captain Black Bunny, who is based on Captain Marvel's foe Black Adam.

In this story both Hoppy and Millie were depicted as white bunnies, instead of their usual pink.

Ali Smith's 2007 novel Girl Meets Boy is based on Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe, and is part of the Canongate Myth Series.

* Queen Lucy, Super-Girl — In Superboy # 5 ( November – December 1949 ) in a story titled " Superboy Meets Supergirl ", Superboy meets Queen Lucy of the fictional Latin American nation of Borgonia.

Megatron's earliest fictional depiction in comics was in a two part short story told in Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series of character profiles.

Elvis Meets Nixon is a 1997 film purporting to tell the true story of Elvis Presley meeting then President Richard Nixon on December 21, 1970.

Also, he appeared in animated form in a few Weekend Specials, including Cap ’ n O. G. Readmore Meets Chicken Little and Cap ’ n O. G. Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ; in these features, he was the president of an all-feline book club, the Friday Night Book Club, who often found himself physically pulled into the story he ’ s reading.

To say the least, " book is an upbeat story about acceptance and teen love long before the all-singing, all-dancing cast of Glee arrived on TV ," seeing as Boy Meets Boy was published in 2003.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ) are in the public domain, and are widely available on home video and DVD.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, and Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ), are in the public domain.

Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves ( both of which were also adapted from a story featured in One Thousand and One Nights ), are in the public domain, and are widely available on home video and DVD.

* East Meets West ( 1986 ) a ten plate portfolio story about the adventures of Bourbon Thret and Clint Eastwood

Dinobot's earliest fictional depiction in comics was in a two part short story told in Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye series.

Canadian-born science fiction writer A. E. van Vogt reimagined Robert Graves ' Claudius story in his two novels Empire of the Atom and The Wizard of Linn.

Beginning with the success of the stage version, most subsequent versions of the story, including newer editions of the novel, have been titled " The Wizard of Oz ", rather than using the full, original title.

For instance, in 1967 there was a six-week story with the Wizard taking over the throne.

This story is the first one since the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to send its hero on a quest through the land of Oz, a technique that allowed Baum to showcase the marvels of the land.

In putting together the story he was heavily influenced by the folklore and landscape of the neighbouring Alderley Edge where he had grown up as a child, taking the local legend of " The Wizard Under the Hill " as a partial basis for the novel's plot.

In particular, he based his novel upon the legend of " The Wizard of Alderley Edge ", a story which revolved around a king and his sleeping knights who rest beneath the hill, waiting for the day when they must awake to save the land.

* January 5-The Wiz, a new musical version of the classic Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway's Majestic Theater in New York City.

" The Rule of Names " has some plot links to A Wizard of Earthsea, while " Darkrose and Diamond " is an entirely independent story.

Historical novels ( Gone with the Wind ), contemporary affairs ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Of Mice and Men ), love stories, classic novels ( Wuthering Heights ), a fantasy-musical ( The Wizard of Oz ), a tragedy ( Dark Victory ), a story of the Old West ( Stagecoach ), and a comedy ( Ninotchka ).

Such a dream frame was added to the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for the movie version ; in the book, Oz is clearly defined as an actual place.

In 1995 he performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True, a musical performance of the popular story at the Lincoln Center in New York to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

The character's name originates from a character of the same name in the story " Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida " in the Green Fairy Book, crossed with the wicked witch of the west in The Wizard of Oz.

In the early 1990s, Moore and Gebbie began collaborating on Lost Girls, a story in which the female protagonists of Peter and Wendy, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz meet and share sexual stories and experiences.

In 1995 Winger performed in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True a musical performance of the popular story at Lincoln Center to benefit the Children's Defense Fund.

She also puts a spell on Sophie at the start of the story, turning her into an old crone. The Witch is also revealed to have made a supposedly perfect man out of the combined parts of Wizard Suliman and Prince Justin, intending to complete the body with Howl's head and make the man King of Ingary and herself queen.

* Five years before the main story takes place, Howl catches Calcifer just after he has set up as Wizard Jenkins in Porthaven.

* The H. P. Lovecraft story " The Whisperer in Darkness " is the main focal point in the Electric Wizard song " Weird Tales: Electric Frost / Golgatha / Altar of Melektaus.

The story is a parody of the tale of Faust, and follows the events of Sourcery in which the Wizard Rincewind was trapped in the Dungeon Dimensions.

The character of the Wizard was in the book a good man though a bad wizard but in the play, the villain of the piece ; this is reflected by the evil part he is described as having played in the back story of this work.

The Wizard of Oz screenwriter Noel Langley registered an unproduced script with the U. S. Copyright Office which framed the story as the dream of an orphaned girl named " Tippie ".

In Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz however, not only does the Wizard not know who Ozma is, but he has to be told the entire story as if he wasn't involved and is never questioned about his actions.

Dorothy is a standard character, having at least a cameo role in thirteen of the fourteen Oz books written by L. Frank Baum ( while she did not appear at all in The Marvelous Land of Oz, she is mentioned several times in that story, as it was her actions in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that led to the events in the former ) and is at least a frequent figure in the nineteen that followed by author Ruth Plumly Thompson, getting at least a cameo in all her books except Captain Salt in Oz ( in which neither Oz nor any of its inhabitants appear, though they are mentioned ).

In the end, the story proves to be the dream of a little girl who has fallen asleep listening to the story of Kynd and Kruel, said to be the story of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

* The 1976 Rankin / Bass television special, The First Easter Rabbit adapts the plot of the book as first of part of its story of how a toy bunny is recruited as the Easter Bunny.

It plays out as an alternate story of Jordan's initial return to basketball, this time with him being inspired by Bugs Bunny and others.

* A 1990 episode of Tiny Toon Adventures titled " Buster and the Wolverine " featured Elmyra Duff providing narration for a story where Buster Bunny and his friends, represented with musical instruments, combat an evil " wolverine ".

In 1970, Crumb redrew an early Fuzzy the Bunny story written by Charles Crumb in 1952 ; it was published in Zap Comix # 5.

In the story in Teen Titans vol. 3, # 30-31, deceased Earth-C meta-animals named ( other than Little Cheese ) include Carrie Carrot, Giant Giraffe, Marvel Bunny Jr., Ballistic Baboon, Amazing Ant, and Power Panda.

Popular culture, such as Gary Larson's cartoon The Far Side, Brian Wilson's song " Mrs. O ' Leary's Cow ", the song " The Chicken or the Egg " from The Easter Bunny Is Comin ' To Town, and Rita Hayworth's song " Put the Blame on Mame " from the movie Gilda and even Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs have referred to the story with the expectation that the populace will understand the reference.

In a late story, he steals a gold cup from the British Museum on impulse: when challenged by Bunny as to how he will dispose of it, he posts it to the Queen as a Diamond Jubilee present.

Following the conclusion of the story in volume 7 Ms. Watase appended an extra chapter, ' Bunny Heart ', set in China about 900 AD.

Possibly in a bid to court media attention, the show opened with the controversial story of a middle-aged man, Bunny ( played by Roger Walker ), returning from the UK with a 17-year-old bride, Fizz ( Kathy Pitkin ); many viewers felt this storyline was implausible and seedy.

" Top Secret Apprentice ", a segment of the Tiny Toons Adventures episode broadcast on February 1, 1991, is a modern version of the story, with Buster Bunny messing around with Bugs Bunny's cartoon scenery machine and getting himself into a big heap of trouble.

Two students become the central focus of the story: the linguistic genius Henry Winter, an intellectual with a passion for the Pali canon and Plato, and the back-slapping Bunny Corcoran, a slightly bigoted jokester more comfortable reading Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, particularly if someone else has bought him a copy.

One common ending has Little Bunny Foo-Foo turned into a Goon, with a pun ending " And the moral of the story is: Hare today, goon tomorrow.

The story is also retold in the book " Lenore, The Cute Dead Girl: Noogies " () whereby Lenore plays as Little Bunny Foo Foo and gets told to stop bopping field mice on the head by the good fairy.

One version of the story of Little Bunny Foo Foo is a feghoot.

According to the E. Nelson Bridwell scripted story, The Oz-Wonderland War # 2, Captain Marvel Bunny has the wisdom of Salamander, the strength of Hogules, the stamina of Antlers, the power of Zebreus, the courage of Abalone, and the speed of Monkury.