Fun and Games 2/2

Fun and Games 1/2

Superman's Pal 2/2

Superman's Pal 1/2

Destruction Inc

The Mad Scientist

Jungle Drums

A jungle temple with hooded priest is really a Nazi military base which downs a plane bearing Lois Lane and some secret plans. Can Superman save her from human sacrifice?

The Arctic Giant - WWII Era

This is one of my favorites. Decades before Gojira(Godzilla,) there was The Arctic Giant.

Check out the detail in the generator plant under the museum. I just get the feeling that these guys went and looked at the real thing in many cases, which seems to be something very few animators from that time cared about.


Where did talent go these last 60 years? Now we have computer programs running on vast arrays of physics simulators, that don't do as well as these folk did in 1941.

I will be posting about a dozen of these World War 2 era Superman cartoons over the next week or two.

Please pay close attention to the animation. The animation of the people isn't the best, but any time there is structural drawing or something that was considered high-tech for the day, the animation is incredible.

I don't know how to describe it really, but there is a mixture of realism in the cars and buildings mixed with a sense of fantasy in the other elements that just really, really WORKS to make these a fun time.

There is a lot of politically incorrect stuff in some of these, so please remember the times these came from before whining about that.

This is where we came from, not where we are now.

Produced by the Fleischer studios, the same folks that brought you Popeye cartoons, and the early ad piece "In My Merry Oldsmobile" which is also available here.

The Artic Giant

The Arctic Giant is the fourth of seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. This animated short was created by Fleischer Studios. The story runs nine minutes and covers Superman's adventures defeating a Godzilla-like monster that terrorizes the city. It was originally released 26 February 1942.

SUPERMAN VS THE ARCTIC GIANT MONSTER

The Man Of Steel

The Bulleteers

Secret Agent

SUPERMAN cartoons produced by Paramount Pictures and Fleischer Studios, and Famous Studios (last eight cartoons). 17 cartoons originally released in movie theaters from 1941-1943. "This amazing stranger from the planet Krypton - the Man of Steel, Superman! Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a neverending battle for Truth and Justice, disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent."

CAST Superman/Clark Kent: Clayton 'Bud' Collyer, Lois Lane: Joan Alexander, Perry White: Jackson Beck

Episodes (note: this collection contains 12 of the 17 episodes, these episodes are marked -, also of note for some reason, the episode 'the eleventh hour is shown twice)
01: Superman (AkA The Mad Scientist) - September 26, 1941 02: The Mechanical Monsters - November 28, 1941 03: Billion Dollar Limited - January 9, 1942 04: The Arctic Giant - February 27, 1942 05: The Bulleteers - March 27, 1942 06: The Magnetic Telescope - April 24, 1942 07: Electric Earthquake - May 15, 1942 08: Volcano - July 10, 1942 09: Terror on the Midway - August 28, 1942 10: Japoteurs - September 18, 1942 11: Showdown - October 16, 1942 12: Eleventh Hour - November 20, 1942 13: Destruction, Inc. - December 25, 1942 14: The Mummy Strikes - February 19, 1943 15: Jungle Drums - March 26, 1943 16: The Underground World - June 18, 1943 17: Secret Agent - July 30, 1943

Superman Missiles

Billion Dollar Limit

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The Arctic Giant

The Mummy Strikes

Superman - The Main Man (part 4/4)

Superman - The Main Man (part 3/4)