Superman - Billion Dollar Limited (1942)

Billion Dollar Limited is the third of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, Billion Dollar Limited centers around a train carrying one billion dollars in gold to the US mint, which is sabotaged by robbers before Superman intervenes. The short was released by Paramount Pictures on January 9, 1942.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• super-homem
• max
• dave
• fleischer

[JarheadM4A1]

better animation than 60s spiderman

[publicsuperman]

@JarheadM4A1 Better animation than anything else =)

[MasterMacLeod]

So, was Supes able to fly in these cartoons or not?

Also LOL @ him having been affected by the gas.

Of course, from today's perspective, obviously.

[publicsuperman]

Superman started to fly on those cartoons but not since the first episode.

[snakes3425]

@publicsuperman

Actually the radio show is was the first time flight became one of Superman's powers

[publicsuperman]

@snakes3425 Thanks for the info! =)

[JimmytheX]

All these comments about Superman, yet no one brings up the fact that the masked robbers have a Super-sonic Clown Car that can out-run a speeding locomotive enough for them to set up demolitions on a bridge and hold innumerable 'just in case we need it' items such as a crate of tear gas grenades and a...missile..bomb..timer..thin­g.

Who designed that car? Wayne Enterprises?

[zangetsu134]

@JarheadM4A1

To b fair, Cinema Cartoons were superior because they actually gave a shit.

[bearclawsrock]

Buffalo wtf u just gone pick up train tracks and it'll be ok

[bearclawsrock]

Only a woman would think that massive thing flying at the speed of sound is. Fuckig bird

[matthewlo55]

So funny to pull the train !

[sewdesu]

Lois is a BAMF with that tommy gun

[Komichi]

Fantastic! It's hard to believe this was done in the early 40s, the animation is stunning and really stands the test of time. For a minute watching this I felt the same sort of thrill and awe with Superman as people during the golden age of comics must have felt.

[joshpk84]

i had to replay @4:09 a few times haha fantastic. lois chicago type written' like a champ. also goes without saying that the animation is 2nd to none, there were standards once

[MasterMacLeod]

Did these cartoons ever show Superman with the red/yellow "S"?