Superman (1941 Cartoons)




 * "Faster than a bolt of lightning! More powerful than the pounding surf! Mightier than a roaring hurricane! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Superman!"
 * --Narrator

Title: Superman Seasons: 3 Production Company: Universal Pictures (Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios) Created by: Max and Dave Fleischer Status: No longer in production

Summary
The first animated Superman series was a string of eight-minute cartoon shorts produced by Max and Dave Fleischer for Fleischer studios. Beginning in 1941, Fleischer Studios produced nine animated segments of Superman, at which point production was switched over to Famous Studios, where the series continued until 1943. In total, seventeen episodes were completed and have been widely released on both VHS and DVD formats throughout the years.

Principal Cast

 * Superman
 * Lois Lane
 * Perry White

Episodes

 * Superman (The Mad Scientist)
 * Mechanical Monsters
 * Billion Dollar Limited
 * The Arctic Giant
 * The Bulleteers
 * The Magnetic Telescope
 * Electric Earthquake
 * Volcano
 * Terror On The Midway
 * Japoteurs
 * Showdown
 * Eleventh Hour
 * Destruction Inc.
 * The Mummy Strikes
 * Jungle Drums
 * The Underground World
 * Secret Agent

Trivia

 * The producers of the first season of Batman - The Animated Series patterned their artistic style in the tradition of the old Fleischer Superman episodes.


 * In 2001, the comic character, Superman, briefly changed his chest emblem to reflect the red-on-black style used in the 1940s Fleischer cartoons.

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