Max Fleischer's "Superman" Cartoons

I grabbed this off this site called www.aol.com/in2tv --- it's the ORIGINAL SUPERMAN CARTOON from the 1940s. The site is awesome --- they have full episodes of the vintage superman stuff and even other vintage series ( I personally enjoyed the old episodes of Welcome Back Kotter). Best thing is it's free and available to everyone, not just aol members.

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[Fenris30]

This is the Golden Age/Earth 2 origin for Superman. Ma and Pa Kent finding him is the Silver Age/Earth 1 origin.

[SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6]

unforchanetly AOL took all the superman stuff off there site except "Lois and Clark"

so, yeah, SCREW YOU AOL!!!!!!!

[Clickyable]

@thorgrim103 It's a bit of a mix. The original origin had the Kents finding him and giving him to an orphanage. Later the adopted him themselves.

As time went on the orphanage angle was dropped.

[DCMarvelFanGuy]

Man, I watched this all the time. I'm so glad this available to the public. Max Fleischer was a legend.

[thorgrim103]

wait so the Fleischer origins different wow i thought every one followed the farmboy origin where he was found by the kents.

[fromthesidelines]

This was the opening sequence of the first "Superman" cartoon, released in September 1941. The origin story was "revised" many times over the years, in print, radio and film; Robert Maxwell's version (written by him, as "Richard Fielding") was used in the radio and original TV edition of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN".

[RJRanke]

A friend of mine who saw one of these old Superman cartoons said that the people who made them had to have invented a way to make the characters look real.

I said that Max and Dave Fleischer,the producer and director,did invent a method called rotoscoping-which involved tracing live action footage.

Paramount Pictures spared no expense on their Superman cartoons.

[uman347]

yep, and new earth/ modern age orgin, ma and pa kent

[Rummelhart]

Um... do I detect arguments about the REAL Superman? You DO all know he married Wonder Woman, carried on an affair with Jimmy and finally married Perry White?

[Coldspider801]

Back in the 40s planets didn't get sucked into a black hole, destroyed by the death star or melted into lava and consumed by galactus they just exploded randomly in a relatively small poof of smoke. I miss those less violent days of science fiction.