66 Superman filmation featurette Pt.1

[HardWarUK]

If you like the Silver Age of comics and you like PC gaming you should check out "Freedom Force" - it'll bring back these 60's comic/cartoon feelings to you again!

[BlakeVII]

Good video!

[mancalledT]

Internet tough guy..... Go talk to your MOM like that kid..

[squirm13]

The ruby spears superman is on dvd.

[mancalledT]

Can you post some of the 1966 cartoons???? Please!!!

[hcvang]

Why dont you just pay the lousy 20 bucks the dvd costs?

fucking freeloaders

[221b]

They make a common error in this featurette in saying that Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman were the only three superheroes to remain in publication between the golden- and silver-ages. Actually, while the Big Three were the only ones to have their own books in publication during that time, Green Arrow and Aquaman also managed to remain in uninterrupted production in backup features.

[Carycomic]

Being a Fifty-niner (=born at the tail end of the Baby Boom), I was one of those kids who were too young to watch the George Reeves show. So, my first exposure to Superman was this version!  Imagine my delight, in later years, at learning that Bud Collyer had also dubbed for the Man of Steel in the Golden Age Supercartoons--done by Fleischer Studios--in the 1940's!

[MrReneManuel]

@Carycomic Yes.

[tethadam10]

The 1st Superhero and still the best! Thanks for posting this!

[71grave]

realistic, relaxing world of colors and action.

[CaptainBuckRogers]

Why won't Warner Bros. release the Rudy-Spears Superman from '81 or '83. It was cool. Micheal Bell was Luthor and the animation was neat and pleasing to the eyes. It featured the DC revamp because Wonder Woman could fly.

[WestCoastCaws]

I agree they should release the Ruby-Spears Superman, that was another stylized take on the Superman mythos. hey check out the Filmations Superhero collection DVD , the company that WB paid to do the menus for messed up, instead of of a picture of Hawkman , they have a pic of Birdman !

[heartofzorro]

I think Superman is not an American symbol. That's Captain America. Although Superman was created on the Sates he is a world symbol. He is Superman and not American Superman...

[Carycomic]

You are so right. I think the confusion arises from the radio show introduction of the 1930's--and repeated verbatim, by the late Jackson Beck, for the 1960's cartoon--that features the now-famous (and sometimes-comically regarded )phrase: "...truth, justice, and the American way..."

[TekkamanBlade4ever]

Where did this featurette come from? Was it an extra on a dvd? if so,whcih dvd?

Superman RULES!!!!!!

Superman FOREVER/4EVER!!!!!

[rathraven1313]

The New Adventures of Superman season 1.

[altorki]

Superman will always be the greatest hero of all time.

[ACcountryFan]

i like the way the emphasis was put on the imagination...many viewers today want stories that reflect real life and reality too much that stories that evoke the imagination are criticized for being "unrealistic".

[brucedavis76]

way better than the lousy superfriends

[ComicBookGo]

Moron. Aint nothing better than Superfriends. Every comic fan knows that. It's the only thing that has brought comix exactly as presented. Exactly by art, style, stories, characterization, and most of all the EXACT same spirit of what comix are all about. Get educated fool b4 you talk

[brucedavis76]

I am educated i have a masters degree in library science

what masters degree do you have?

plus i taught for 8 years

where do you teach?

[ComicBookGo]

Apparently on the youtube, is where I teach since I just schooled yer dumbass. Quoting a degree on library science is somehow suppose to logically explain how U dont need 2 get educated on comix before U talk like a silly fool?? Dam, if thats yer line of reasoning I'll be sure 2 avoid the school U got educated in. Get educated fool b4 you talk, the statement stands by logic and survives yer idiot sarcasm.

[brucedavis76]

I agree I dont need to get educated on comics since I stopped reading them when I was about 12. Although if there is a university which offers a major in comic book study I would like to know where it is.

Also the filmation tv show was better than the superfriends show because superfriends was watered down by networks because of violence I do like the new brave and the bold and the JLU however

[ComicBookGo]

For the Brave+Bold, at least Batmans costume is accurate, but its actually not how the Brave+Bold is drawn at all, the same for the "animated series", I cant approve of all these toony things, Comix are NOT slap stick. Superfriends on the other hand (the same 4 yer Filmation, Ruby/Spears, more HanaBarbara) actually presented comic books. Sure, SupFrnds toned down A BIT, but was equally as violent as Filmation. U cant support Filmation+not Suprfrnds. Filmation's greatest accomplishment is HE-MAN.

[ComicBookGo]

....oh about "if there is a university which offers a major in comic book study I would like to know where it is" well that would be FRIKIN cool. I'd definitely teach there, but to be educated on comix (or to be educated on anything 4 dat matter) doesnt require some building or some person holding a piece of paper sayin they have the right 2 teach. Education means knowledge, and knowledge on any matter is available to U if U just study it intently and objectively observe. Others experience helps

[brucedavis76]

I agree I did however like the superfriends that fought the legion of doom episodes except for the way they would escape at the end all the time I didnt like the superfriends with the wonder twins or those two other kids and the dog to corny for me. But thanks to cable the b&b and the jlu really can push the envelope now on certain things like when wonder woman scissored devil ray and broke his helment no way could you show that on network tv

[ComicBookGo]

Oh DAM, you mean "Challenge of the Superfriends" HELL yeah! that was explosive, but if U liked that then U should see "Galactic Guardians", both those were the climatic end to the whole series. The wonderTwin shows were awesome man, those were the ones that captured the adventure-spirit of comix, I guess only certain minds see it. I understand yer dislike for the dog+2 kids (wendyMarv). Yer right; Toons are definitely more violent 2day, sometimes thats good (anime) most of the time its bad.

[brucedavis76]

right challenge of superfriends was good especially the bad guys because they really followed the comics better than the early filmations. Remember in filmation luthor wore a cheap yellow looking suit and looked like an out of shape old man in challenge he looked in alot better shape plus had his comic book uni

[ComicBookGo]

Exactly, they really did come a long way from Filmation (I do adore all the Filmation stuff). I admit that Superfriends has a whole lot of flaws and some zany stuff people can't get past,but the overall point really nailed the attitude of comix. I mean, if U read the comix they're even zanier than the Superfriends! But both mirrored each other in positive feeling and the pureness of heroes. That ChallengeOfSuperfrineds brought things up a notch, Say which villain did U like, I loved Black Manta!

[143AC]

Not all of "Superman's"super foes were

from other worlds. "Lex Luthor","The Prankster" and"The Toyman"

were human..but still.

 They used evil super gadgets and they were

very dangerious.

[rnigma]

Good that they had Mark Waid, self-proclaimed "DC Comics Geek #1," to do much of the commentary here.

And I liked Swan's work... he moved it away from the Shuster/Boring style to a more realistic one.

Whatever Mort Weisinger's abilities as an editor, he was much to blame for the mess the Crisis was supposed to clean up.

[143AC]

Mr.Beck was not only the announcer and

narrator for the "Superman"radio and tv cartoons? He was also the voice of"Lex Luthor" and"Perry

White". Jack Grimes didn't do the voice of"Jimmy Olsen"

for the radio show only for the tv cartoons.

[rnigma]

Jackie Kelk (who played Henry Aldrich's pal Homer) played Jimmy in the radio series. In fact, the character of Jimmy first appeared on radio, not in the comic.

[ACcountryFan]

He was also the voice of Bluto, too.

[Lembuti]

same question here as on the Batman and Robin one... does anyone know the name/title of the book behind Paul Levitz, the one with all the Superman heads on the cover?

[Timmyfunk1]

That featurette didn't exactly say anything that didn't know already. Personally I couldn't stand Curt Swan's work. I always looked forward to a time when other artists would draw Superman. Neal Adams was, to me, the quintessential DC artist.

[vmrgrsergr]

but the fact is it was neistche who came up with the concept of "Superman" of a Super-human being. The original credit is his to keep, not siegel or shuster

[batmanpp]

Great to stimulate consideration of where things truly come from,and underline our ignorance.But Nietszche(which is how U wud spell dat)talkt about an Ubermench just like Siegle/Shuster did.The idea of superhuman is not to Nietszche's credit,as he's not even clear in his writings.Superman was LONG b4 nietzsche;JesusChrist,Hercules­,Samson,evenMonks and Saints.Siegle/Shuster get full credit 4 da form of the comic book character.

[GreatestMovieEverMad]

Try reading more than the title, and you'll see how silly your comment sounds.

[NY4Life]

You're an ASS!

[heine71]

If the 1968 Filmation Batman animated series goes on DVD by Warner Bros. in the future, will there be a Batman in '68 featurette on the DVD set?

[nnaw]

Uhhhh, yeahhhh...

[heine71]

And I hope for the Batman in '68 featurette for the 1968 Filmation Batman series if and when it comes out on DVD Warner Bros. gets Robin voice Casey Kasem in person for the featurette.

[wcrooster1]

Jackson Beck was also the voice of Bluto/Brutus in the 1940's, 50's and 60's in the Popeye cartoon series.

[Scarletspeedster68]

He also was the voice narrator for G.I. Joe in the 1980s. Boy, he was quite a talent! Oh, and he also was the voice of Daily Planet editor for the The New Adventures Of Superman as well!

[frightfan1]

I loved this cartoon in the fall of 1966. Great narration by Jackson Beck.Aquaman,Atom,Hawkman,Gree­n Lantern,The Flash,The Teen Titans and the JLA joined him the following season. All the superhero cartoons vanished by the fall of 1970. Boo!

[WZ912]

ALL THE SUPERHERO CARTOONS VANISHED BY 1970? Maybe for Filmation. Exit Filmation. Enter the Hana Barbara and the SUPERFRIENDS! Yeah!

[frightfan1]

The SUPERFRIENDS were great,too.

[mrmoore1970]

Filmation made "the New Adventures of Batman" in 1977, the continuation of the 1968 Batman and Robin.

[Scarletspeedster68]

Thanks for posting this featurette! It is awesome!

[Carycomic]

What he said!

Thanks, Scarlet.