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"Up in the sky...look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Adorned in his trademark blue tights and red cape emblazoned with a large red 'S',this superhero may be the most famous comic book character of all time. He is the last son of Krypton, sent to Earth before his home planet exploded, living under the alias Clark Kent as he fights for "truth, justice, and the American way!" Joined by their love of comics and dreams of breaking into the newspapers, best friends Jerry Siegel, an aspiring writer, and Joe Shuster, an aspiring artist, created Superman in 1933. Although initially rejected by newpapers, Siegel and Shuster finally found their audience in the new medium of comic books. By 1941, Superman was enjoying tremendous success in comics, radio serials, and motion pictures. Produced by Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, Popeye), the first entry of the animated version entitled "Superman" was released in September of that same year to critical acclaim and was even nominated for an Academy Award. Until 1943, Superman battled flying robots, mad scientists, gorillas, dinosaurs, spies, natural disasters and airborne torpedoes in a total of 17 animated shorts. Resembling feature films complete with tracking shots, a stunning variety of camera angles, amazingly realistic illumination, accelerated pace, dynamic musical scores and eye-popping special effects, these innovative science fiction spectaculars remain among the most technically polished examplesof "short film art."

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.04 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ B003CT354O
Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 25 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ March 17, 2010
Producers ‏ : ‎ Osiris Ent. LLC
Studio ‏ : ‎ Osiris Entertainment LLC.
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003CT354O
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Tracie McConnell

Must-see for superhero fans and animation fans

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2016

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This video contains the first 6 of the 9 Superman cartoons that were actually produced by Fleischer Studio for Paramount, omitting the last 3 that they produced as well as the 8 cartoons by Famous Studios that continued the series for Paramount in the Fleischers' style. So this review only applies to the first 6.

The first of the series is simply entitled, "Superman". This one is probably the best of the bunch; it had the biggest budget, and it does look fantastic. This video also contains "The Mechanical Monsters," "Billion Dollar Limited," "The Arctic Giant," "The Bulleteers," and "The Magnetic Telescope." They are all generally on a par with each other: Excellent animation, limited storytelling and extremely limited character development (which is what I would expect from a 10 minute short), and lots of action from start to finish.

Superman doesn't seem to be completely invulnerable yet (even seeming to be knocked unconscious on one occasion), and he seems to fly in some episodes, but merely leaps in other episodes. His limited power here actually makes his character more interesting than he would later become in the comics, when he became so powerful that they had to introduce Kryptonite... it was becoming tedious that Superman just couldn't be beaten.

These cartoons are must-see for superhero fans and animation fans. Perhaps the stories themselves don't hold up to repeated viewings, but they are beautifully animated and entertaining.

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George W. Rizor Jr.

Defines Timeless in Craft and Content

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 5, 2014

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The Max Fleischer Superman, featured in these cartoons is the iconic superhero in very old, amazingly well done animation. The cartoons are short, the villains are bad (dinosaurs, mad scientists, volcanoes), Lois is ditzy and constantly getting in dire situations.
To say that the animation is terrific, especially for the time (late 1930's, early 40's) would be horrible understatement. It is amazingly sophisticated.
The ONLY thing that might get a small warning is that - because of the pre-World War II timing - some of the cartoons portray villains that are stereotypes of our WWII enemies. The cartoons are products of and reflections of their time. So there is an exaggerated emphasis on saboteurs and spies and such.

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Have Gun

Bait and Switch

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 23, 2006

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The cover art is taken from work done by the late (At least I think he is dead.) and arguably the best of all the Superman artists, Curt Swan. Unless you count Murphy Anderson whom I understand inked Swan's work. The two were often refered to as, "Swanderson".

At first blush. the cover art is almost enough to get you to buy it but then you think, "Wait a minute, I have seen all the classic Superman cartoons". Apparently this is just another attempt to package these classic cartoons with the up dated cover art.

Don't get me wrong. The original Superman cartoons were absolutely great ! I watched them as a child on tv and loved them, I was beside myself when I was able to purchase them on VHS about ten tears ago.

By all means get the original Superman cartoons. (All sixteen of them.) Just don't expect this particular offfering to be anything new or different.

Course the cover art IS by Curt Swan,,,

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John Scalice

A grittier Superman

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 20, 2015

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These are darker cartoons than what we see today, more entertaining for adults. The tone is more like the first season of the Adventures of Superman from the 1950s. The artwork is excellent, with attention paid to details. Superman himself is less powerful, and so must show more determination and willpower to overcome his adversaries.

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D. M. Garland

Enjoyable viewing.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2015

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My four year old great grandson loves Superman and I am thrilled to not have to see any more Sponge Bob. The cartoons are older than me but the boy doesn't care about that, he just likes seeing Superman.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2021

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Good vintage Superman.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 10, 2015

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My 5 year old granddaughter loves this! She would probably give t 5-stars. PLUS it was included in the Prime membership so I'm happy. It is reminiscent of an earlier time in cartoons, but still good quality.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2015

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It'stheMan of Steel before angst and modernism took over. This was great even in the old round B&W TV this baby-boomer watched as a kid. Nice job of restoration of sound and color

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Format	NTSC
Contributor	Osiris Ent. LLC
Runtime	1 hour and 25 minutes