Some incredibly interesting promo art has surfaced from an estate sale for a former DIC Animation City employee. Four cartoons are featured: Double Dragon, California Games, Castlevania, and Metroid. <\/p>\n

You’ll notice that these images are all branded with “Super Mario Bros. Power Hour”. It’s unclear what this is about, though Kotaku speculates that it was possibly a planned expansion or sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, which started airing in 1989. <\/p>\n

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The one piece of art that’s most interesting here is Metroid. We know that Samus is female, but the image depicts the character as a man instead. Was DIC unaware of Samus’ gender? Or did they want to have a different take on the character?<\/p>\n

Here’s the full set of art:<\/p>\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t