The Earth is being attacked by an invading armada and worse, is being pulled into the Sun! Includes the greatest Superman-feat of all time!
The 60s version of the heros. Mostly emulating the class...
The Earth is being attacked by an invading armada and worse, is being pulled into the Sun! Includes the greatest Superman-feat of all time!
The 60s version of the heros. Mostly emulating the classic Curt Swan Superman of the times. Before all heros became angst-ridden jerks in need of therapists.
This era was set off not by the poor animation or the stories, but by the riveting orchestrated theme music throughout all the Filmation series, that you remember decades after the stories and images fade. I could constantly remember those music clips, all through my adulthood, until I finally found some of the episodes again, from Superman and Superboy, to the JLA, Green Lantern, Flash, the Atom, Hawkman, Aquaman and Teen Titans.
(below the video, look for a 'VIDEO RESPONSE' to my next '60s superhero cartoon! :-)
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I think that, by the time the Teen Titans finally came to animated cartoons, the comic book WW had been de-powered. An attempt to make her more like Diana Rigg ("Mrs. Peel" of the BBC Avengers).
Even if that were true, did the situation change when "The Super Friends" came out? I don't remember if that's when Diana's powers were restored but somehow I doubt that this would have stopped the existence of the Wonder Woman TV show starring Linda Carter. Season 1 took place during WW2 and Season 2 in "the present day."
Yes, it did! Earth-1's Wonder Woman was re-empowered after JLA (Vol. 1) #'s 100-102 re-introduced the 7 Soldiers of Victory, circa 1970.
As for the Lynda Carter series? That debuted on ABC, circa 1975, after two experimental pilot films (the first one starring Cathy Lee Crosby and Ricardo Montalban). And, yes, that was probably an indirect result of the first season of SUPER FRIENDS on ABC's Sat. morning line-up, approximately two years earlier.
Bud Collier also did the voices for the Golden Age Super-cartoons produced by Fleischer Studios, in the 1940's. In between them and his work for Filmation, he hosted the original TO TELL THE TRUTH.
Sadly, he passed on to the Great Retirement Home In The Sky circa 1969. Around the same time Filmation began making cartoons based on Archie Comics.
P.S.---anyone else notice how that one clip @ 7:05 also showed up in "Between Two Armies?" ;-)
Well, I first watched these cartoons at the ripe young age of eight. Ten years later, I read in the comic books how Superman's powers were a combination of our lighter-than-Krypton gravity and Earth's yellow sun. So, by those pre-Crisis standards, Romnex drawing Earth closer to the Sun would have inadvertently made Superman stronger! Or, at least, strong enought to restore Earth to her proper orbit.
I really enjoyed this cartoon! Everyone was allowed to be as cool/powerful as they should, without any of that "so and so is too powerful" crap that seeped into stories over the years. Same with the Hanna-Barbara characters. So I always wondered-in a battle between the two universes, who would win? I humbly ask- anyone so inclined to help answer that, go to the video "Who would win #4, DC Universe vs. Hanna Barbara Universe" and join the debate! Battles include Zandor/Dornu vs. Batman/Robin
Alot of Physics people say Superman would have pushed right through the earth. However, perhaps with his great mass moving strength. Superman could somehow generate a massive field of force on the planet. I'm talking fiction here, so suspension of disbelief is a huge variable.
As far as violence goes, this was 1967 as opposed to 1973. The murders of MLK jr. and RFK happened in 1968 and tv violence was blamed for real violence.
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As for the Lynda Carter series? That debuted on ABC, circa 1975, after two experimental pilot films (the first one starring Cathy Lee Crosby and Ricardo Montalban). And, yes, that was probably an indirect result of the first season of SUPER FRIENDS on ABC's Sat. morning line-up, approximately two years earlier.
Sadly, he passed on to the Great Retirement Home In The Sky circa 1969. Around the same time Filmation began making cartoons based on Archie Comics.
P.S.---anyone else notice how that one clip @ 7:05 also showed up in "Between Two Armies?" ;-)
"No sweat!"
As far as violence goes, this was 1967 as opposed to 1973. The murders of MLK jr. and RFK happened in 1968 and tv violence was blamed for real violence.