No matter what any adaptation does, they all stand on the shoulders of the Fleischer Studios' Superman animated shorts, which were Superman's first major visual adaptation to enter the pop culture ...

the 17 legendary Superman cartoons produced between 1941 and 1943 by Max Fleischer studios, and later Famous Studios. And now, after decades of inferior versions circulating through the market ...

DC Studios is doing as much as it can to get you all hyped up about the new Superman movie. In just one day, we had the ...

Well known radio actors Clayton “Bud” Collyer and Joan Alexander reprised their famed The Adventures of Superman radio show roles for the Fleischer/Famous Studios animated shorts as Superman ...

The suit Hoechlin is referring to is modeled on the animated Superman serials from the early 1940s produced by Fleischer Studios. As Superman’s first major adaptation outside of the comics ...

Much of Superman was accomplished by rotoscoping ... The first nine are the true Fleischer Studios cartoons, produced by Max and directed by Dave. The remaining eight come form the successor ...

In the 1930s, Fleischer Studios managed to survive the Depression ... they’d take the reins on a series of short Superman films. They’d unite the progress on the character made in both the ...

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