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| | Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Claude Cat |
 | | The first glimmerings of Claude can be seen in The Aristo-Cat (released June 12, 1943), in which a pair of freshly-introduced rodents, Hubie & Bertie, convinced the poor creature, who had never dealt with mice before, that a bulldog was his natural prey. |
 | | The design was wrong (this was a fl and white kitty, who physically resembled several earlier ones with non-descript characterization), but the personality was right, and Mel Blanc, who created the voices of everybody from Daffy Duck to Marvin Martian, already had his voice down pat. |
 | | After that, Claude went on to a minor career in which he occasionally teamed up with Hubie & Bertie, and occasionally did so with even more minor Chuck Jones stars, such as Marc Antony and a frisky puppy known only as Frisky Puppy. |
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