Starr, Stan Lee team on cartoon

Look -- up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s ... Ringo?

Yes, the former Beatle has teamed with Stan Lee, the creator of “Spider-Man,” “The Incredible Hulk” and other comic-book superheroes, for an animated series with Starr as the star. It is expected to be released on DVD early next year.

The drummer will voice the character of Ringo Superhero, described as “an evil-battling, Earth-saving (though reluctant) superhero with a great sense of rhythm.”

It won’t be the first time a Beatle has been turned into a cartoon. The 1968 “Yellow Submarine” movie featured all members of the Fab Four as animated characters in a story based on their 1966 hit, and they starred in a syndicated Saturday morning cartoon series that ran from 1965 to 1968.