Cartoon Network Captures The Marvel Super Hero Squad

Marvel Entertainment is packaging some of its most vaunted superheroes for an upcoming Cartoon Network animated series. The toon network has ordered 26 episodes of the Marvel Super Hero Squad, in which Captain America, Silver Surfer, Hulk, Wolverine and Iron Man will team up to fight crime. The half-hour cartoon is targeted for premiere in late 2009.

Voice talent will include Tom Kenny, Charlie Adler, Steve Blum and Grey DeLisle. The series will fit into a Cartoon Network lineup that already includes TV’s top animated draw for boys 6-14, the George Lucas-produced Star Wars: The Clone Wars as well as Batman: The Brave and The Bold.