The Mystery Cartoon Character Game, ongoing.

Oho, this must be Sam I Am, from the adaptation of Theodore "Doctor Seuss" Geisel's children's work "Green Eggs And Ham" produced by Pink Panther stalwarts David Depatie and Isadore "Friz" Freleng.

Yes, OUB, you nailed it again. Now for the clues:

1. The story was animated along with "The Sneetches" and "The Zax" under the title "Dr. Seuss On The Loose."

2. All three segments were introduced by The Cat In The Hat, who'd starred in his own animated special two years earlier.

3. Self-explanatory with a capital S.

So now you have control of the board again. Good job.

Nice clues, locked me onto target right away. Now to pick a more mainstream character ...

1) This character has appeared in two entirely different televised cartoon series. Granted, both are produced by the same studio; nonetheless, they are two different cartoon series with two different premises that share this selfsame character.

2) You know how George Jetson can press a button on his flying car, and it folds up neatly into a briefcase? This character can press a similar button, and the result is much smaller than a briefcase.

3) And you know how Wilma Flintstone calls out her husband on his shenanigans by pronouncing his four-letter name with two syllables? "Frā' èd." In this character's second cartoon series, another one-syllable word gets an extra syllable.

You got me on this one. This calls for a lot of research.

I can think of a possibility for clue 2, but it doesn't match the other clues. Oh, well.

Ow, it's almost painful reading how EmeraldIsle and SaltyBoot can't pin this one down. Fine, let's hit this one a li'l harder ...

4) The first cartoon series for this character was a cooperative effort by two studios: one studio held the copyright, and the other made the animated series.

5) In the first cartoon series, this character has a goodly number of opponents, though one in particular stands out.

6) In the second cartoon series, this character has one main antagonist, two lesser foes, and a squad of bumbling attendants.

Sorry, but I'm still clueless.

I can't think of anything that matches all the clues. Plus, it doesn't help that I've been particularly busy this week.

Well, dang, again I must field a third set of clues. I must be getting better at this. But let us be stumped no more:

7) This character has an alliterative name, like Daffy Duck or Roger Rabbit or Farrah Fawcett.

8) A game show host provided the voice for this character's primary adversary in the first cartoon series (Runaround).

9) A game show panelist provided the voice for this character's primary adversary in the second cartoon series (center square).

Now, solve this thing, you's guys.

Oh, I face palm myself. It's Penelope Pitstop!

Please forgive me. It's been WAY too long since I last saw "Wacky Races" or "The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop."

Oh, thank heaven. A character from two distinct cartoon series from the venerable Hanna-Barbera studios goes unguessed? Unthinkable.
Recapping the clues:
1) Wacky Races driving as an entrant in a stage race competition, and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop escaping deathtraps by her nefarious uncle.
2) Wacky Races has an intro showing Penelope pressing a button on her Compact Pussycat. It folds up into a makeup compact, which Penelope uses to apply face powder.
3) "Hé' elp! Hé' elp!" Ingenious: even someone who normally isn't heroic or rescue-y would come to see who on Earth says "help" like that.

4) Heater-Quigley studio held the copyright on the ridiculous stage race screenplay. Hanna-Barbera with permission adapted it into the insane-physics fest that is the Wacky Races.
5) Technically, every other entrant in the Wacky Races opposed Penelope. Dick Dastardly however went completely haywire with the concept.
6) Penelope's principal adversary in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop is The Hooded Claw, who has the Bully brothers as minions. Penelope has the Ant Hill Mob and Chug-a-boom, for all the good they do.

7) Penelope Pitstop, in the same league as Peter Perfect and Peter Piper.
8) The voice of Dick Dastardly from Wacky Races was supplied by Paul Winchell, who also hosted the children's game show Runaround.
9) The voice of Hooded Claw from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop was supplied by Paul Lynde, the center square of the game show Hollywood Squares.

Well, despite running me through the wringer like that, EmeraldIsle collects another +1 and control of the board ... "Shū' ga."

Thanks, OUB. Now here's one I've wanted to post for quite a while:

1. I'm hatched in an unlikely time and place.

2. Although I become big enough for Jurassic Park, I end up in a circus.

3. I let my stepmom know I'm alive and well by crowing like a rooster!

Ok, here are the last three clues:

4. During my circus tenure, I suffer from depression and homesickness.

5. My two stepbrothers are named for the founder of the comic book line that bought the rights to most of my studio's shorts.

6. In fact, when this and the other shorts aired on TV, my studio's original logo was replaced by an animated version of the aforementioned comic books' symbol.

There'll be no more clues after these, so if no one gets it by tomorrow, I'll reveal the answer.

I've never seen this Noveltoon, and I can't even find a decent synopsis on the internet, but I figure it must be Danny the Dinosaur from Cock-A-Doodle Dino.

Yes, Pete. That's it. Now to explain the clues:

1. Danny's egg was hatched on a chicken farm by a mother hen.

2. After eating straw, a tree, and the hay inside a barn, Danny grew from a tiny baby to a giant, and was sold for $10,000 to a circus.

3. When the hen came to the clinic, and thought her precious Danny was dead, he recognized her voice, and crowed like a rooster. When she heard him, she came running back, thankful she hadn't lost him.

4. At the circus, he was so depressed and homesick, he refused to perform. This convinced the audience that he was just a stuffed dummy.

5. His stepbrothers Alfred and Harvey were named for Alfred Harvey, the founder of Harvey Comics, which bought the rights to nearly all the Famous Studios shorts, except for those starring Popeye, and a few of the early ones.

6. When the Noveltoons and some others began airing on TV, the Paramount/Famous logo was replaced by Harvey the Harlequin, an animated version of the Harvey Comics symbol, who popped up from a box with the letter H on it to introduce the cartoons.

So it's your turn now, Pete. Good work.

Sorry for the delay - I should have posted this last night, but I was too tired!

Having just reread the clues, I think this might just be an easy one:

1) I am from the comics, but have appeared in animated form many times, on both the cinema and TV screens.
2) If I keep needing to be rescued it is not because I'm helpless, but because I am intrepid!
3) In a three-parter, named after a comic title, I consider moving from one version of New York to another.

I haven't a clue this time. Hopefully, one of my fellow posters has the answer.

Methinks this is Batman, the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, the crazy-prepared egotist with too much time on his hands.
1) First appeared in Detective Comics, and soon earned his own title. Adam West brought him to television, and Michael Keaton took him into theaters.
2) Adam West perhaps codified the get-captured, tied-to-deathtrap, ingenious-escape mechanism that became the hallmark of "the Batman."
3) "Gotham" is one nickname for New York City. It's usually left ambiguous exactly where Batman lives and operates. His alt.form of Bruce Wayne as the jillionaire playboy industrialist inventor means he can be almost anywhere with a plausible reason.

Not Batman - West's and Keaton's performances may have been lively, but I intended 'animated' more specifically, and West usually escaped by his own means rather than having to be rescued.

4) I am not the title character in my cartoons, but often contribute to the plot development.

5) My animated appearances have been produced by 4 (technically 5) separate studios.

6) One of my voice artists based their characterisation on the portrayal (in a 1940 screwball comedy) of a character with the same occupation as myself. All three of us (myself, the voice artist and the film star) have names that share a common feature, initially - one that in my case (but not the other two) has become part of the mythology surrounding the main character.

Sorry, Pete. This os one for one of the other posters, not me. The one I thought of is already on the Used Character List.