I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My first introduction to Superman was my uncle showed me "The New Adventures of Superman" cartoon from 1966, I eventually started reading the comics from DC. I'm now in my late 30's and I still enjoy reading and watching Superman.
I tell people who say they don't like Superman to read the Jerry Siegel '30s-'40s comics reprints. Watch the Bud Collyer/Fleischer/Filmation cartoons, George Reeves and Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan. Most people only know the campy over-powered Christopher Reeve and teen-angst Smaillville and depressed/brooding reckless joyless Henry Cavill reboot.
Well, the Fleischer cartoons followed a simplistic format. Watching one can be entertaining, but watching more than two you get the sense that you're watching the same story over and over again.
“Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SUPERMAN! Yes, it’s SUPERMAN: strange visitor from the planet Krypton, who came to Earth with amazing mental/physical powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. SUPERMAN, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, race a speeding bullet to its target, bend steel with his bare hands. SUPERMAN, defender of law and order, champion of equal rights, a valiant and courageous fighter against the forces of hate and prejudice, and who disguised as ‘Clark Kent,’ mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way!”
That's false. Superman has nothing to do with the evil golem character from jewish stories who is mindless and the turns on his creators. Superman is instead inspired by eugenics science of the 1930s, along with Jon Carter, Gladiator, and Harold Lloyd films for Clark Kent, with athletic tights. That's what Siegel & Shuster created.
I am British and the Superman and Batman and Superboy comic books were my favourite comic books in the 1950's and into the 1960's. My grandparents who were Dutch migrants to Detroit Michigan in the USA sent me the newspaper comic strips every year in a parcel for Christmas as well as jars of Donald Duck peanut butter which wasn't available here in the UK during the 1950's. American comics became very popular here and were much better than the OK comics during that era and still popular today for comic book collectors. The Superman DC comics of the 1950's and 1960's can still be purchased today but can be very expensive as many good condition ones fetch high prices depending on when they were published. I had many in pristine condition and in boxes but unfortunately they were given away when I joined the Royal Navy back in 1964. They would have cost a fortune today being very collectable.
Forgot about the Toronto star in those early days actually did play a part in the start of superman, in the early days the Daily Planet went by the Daily Star. Thanks to the Toronto Star. Maybe you did know but only have so much time.
They were 13 live action actors who played Superman, Kirk Alyn in the two serials, George Reeves in the Adventures of Superman tv series, John Rockwell in the unsold Superboy tv pilot, David Wilson in the ABC adapted broadway Superman musical, Christopher Reeve in the four Superman movies, John Haymes Newton in season 1 of Superboy, Gerard Christopher in seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Superboy, Dean Cain in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Tom Welling in Smallville, Brandon Routh in Superman Returns, Henry Cavill in Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League and Tyler Hoechlin in Supergirl.
The first time I saw Superman was reruns of the old George Reeves series.When i was almost 5,I got my first Superman comic book-which was # 133. I know now this was the first Superman comic book Jerry Siegel had written for in over ten years.
Mark Edwards Not so much. DC comics printed the phonetic pronunciation once at least some 50 odd years ago. I was lucky enough to have an uncle who shared his comic books and got a chance to read it then.
Can’t believe Superman’s costume was inspired by circus high flying act outfit. Since 1990 documentary, there was the death of Superman in the comics, four tv series and upcoming reboot of The Man of Steel at movie theaters.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Growing up in 1960's England my brother and I went to Saturday matinee at the local cinema. One of the regulars was George Reeve's Superman but to be honest at my young age my favourites were Zorro and Rocket Man although we read the comic books.
One way or the other you saw the 3 great entities. Wish someone wd do a vid on the UK edition of this whole genre in & of itself and in comparison to the US.
carol tenge well, it could be my great memory, but it's more likely because I have the entire series on DVD, and it hasn't been all that long since I saw it.
Yes, George Reeves put a .38 round in his head. He was depressed, and could not get work after Superman was cancelled. He was typecast, and too well known as Superman. He had other personal problems around the time of his death. I loved Superman stuff when I was a kid. Bought DC comic books of him & Batman.
I could swear one of the two boys talking about 'stamps' is a very young Harry Shearer! (he was the first "Eddie Haskell" in the pilot of "Leave it to Beaver" in '57, before Ken Osmond...I think Harry said his parents didn't want to sign an 'exclusive' contract that would prevent him from doing any other performing for the run of the show, so he did only one original episode) Boy, did he lose out on THAT deal!
William Avitt He would have been 'Homer' regardless of whether or not he stayed on 'Beaver" Ken Osmond was so 'type-cast' he really didn't have a chance to perform anymore after 'Beaver' was canceled. (when I wrote 'lost out' I meant in terms of income over the run of the show...which would have been considerably more than Shearer made doing 'bit roles' 'walk-ons' and the occasional commercial Five years of paychecks when you're a young teen is 'pretty good' in my book!)
Gerry Nightingale You don't know that he still would have been Homer Simpson had he been Eddie Haskell. What's to say Harry wouldn't have seen the same typecasting that Ken Osmand got? So yeah, he would have gotten 5 years of steady paychecks, but may have missed out on 25+ years of steady paychecks and risiduals from being one of the most beloved characters on probably the single most successful primetime television series (animated or otherwise). I think Harry made out just fine
William Avitt I don't know how to respond to the scenario of "If Shearer had stayed as 'Haskell' he may not have been "Homer". That's equivalent to saying 'there's no point in doing anything...we're all going to die at some point, so why bother?' *************** Have you considered that Shearer is performing a 'voice-over' for the character of "Homer?" He's NOT on-camera' himself! Matt Groening developed the character of "Homer" long before Harry Shearer auditioned for the 'voice-role'. Shearer was NOT "Homer" on the old "Tracy Ullman Show", which is where "The Simpsons' made their debut...and Homer's basic personality traits were already 'in-place'. (Btw...Ken Osmond has done plenty of 'voice-overs' in the last fifty years...but there is no way to know in advance 'what will be a hit' like "Scooby-Doo", etc.)
At the first of this , it says Superman was inspired by Zeus, Hercules and other such characters. Captain Marvel was the one that was inspired by these characters. The word Shazam , which was the name of the elder that gave Billy Batson his powers to become Captain Marvel, is discribed as S ( wisdom of Solomon) H ( strength of Hercules), Z( power of Zeus) and so on. I think the creator of this post got it confused with the first chapter of The Adventures Of Captain Marvel where the elder explains this to Billy Batson.
Yeah, if Auperman had any direct inspiration it was Moses with the whole "sent away in a basket/escape pod" origin. I guess you could argue the concept of superheroes takes inspiration from the demigods of Greek myth. But I don't think Suoerman was copying any of them specifically. Especially since Greek demigods usually have tragic lives and often cause as much harm as good.
Superman was originally and antagonist ... From WIKIPEDIA : In January 1933, Siegel published a short story in his fanzine titled "The Reign of the Superman". The titular character is a vagrant named Bill Dunn who is tricked by an evil scientist into consuming an experimental drug. The drug gives Dunn the powers of mind-reading, mind-control, and clairvoyance. He uses these powers maliciously for profit and amusement, but then the drug wears off, leaving him a powerless vagrant again. Shuster provided illustrations, depicting Dunn as a bald man.[10] Siegel and Shuster shifted to making comic strips, with the ambition of becoming professional comic authors. Siegel observed that comic strips featuring villainous protagonists such as Fu Manchu tended to struggle, whereas strips with heroic characters such as Tarzan were more popular,[11] so he and Shuster reinvented Superman as a crime-fighting hero. Like Bill Dunn, this second prototype of Superman is given powers against his will by an unscrupulous scientist, but instead of psychic abilities, he acquires superhuman strength and bullet-proof skin.
My favorite power of Superman's is "Super Whispering." With it, he can talk to any individual person that he wants to, anywhere he or they are, and only they can hear him (he can super whisper to more than one person at the same time as well of course). It's a good power and only 'Supes' has it!
Making him a god is boring..that's DC's problem..too many overpowered heroes. He basically took Captain Marvel's powers after they sewed and won...Captain Marvel (Now legally Shazam) became more popular that Superman and DC wasn't having it. After they won they kept adding powers. He really should just be able to jump far and be strong, that's it.
+Joseph Bentley As far as characters that carry their own titles, who is overpowered besides Supes? Three heroes comparable in power, Shazam, Martian Manhunter, and The Spectre all don't currently have their own titles. Besides that anyway, the best superman stories IMO aren't when he has to fight to the death or meets some one as strong as he but when his ideals and loved ones are threatened and he must choose how to use his amazing powers, or when it's revealed that for all his powers there are many things he can't do or change.
+Joseph Bentley - You're absolutely right that the 'god' comparisons make him boring--but not that Superman 'took C. Marvel's powers after they sued'--or that Cap was 'more popular' (his one and only claim to this, a notable one, is that Cap's sales peaked at 2 million for his self-title, to Superman's 1.6 million...plus more than a million 'Action', of course, which detail is less mentioned; otherwise, Cap also had much less, well, popularity: not only was his movie serial an embarassing bust, whereas Superman's was an immense success, Superman was a cultural icon in four mediums, the creative model for all other secret-identitied-tights-wearing-superheroes, and the reason, via 'Action Comics' ' huge sales in 1938-9, that Newsstands started distributing comics beyond Tarzan-strip-compilations. 'Cap' also sold just to kids (for obvious reasons)--ACTION and 'Superman' sold to a broad range of age-groups, and 'Cap's' superhuman powers and musculature, with invulnerability and super-strength at the center and a black head of hair--crossed the line in how much they took from Superman--the suit would finally end when an entire page-layout was of Cap's was shown to be shamelessly stolen from a Superman book (along with evidence Cap had borrowed plot and other elements, and with declining sales, Fawcett settled: Fawcett payed a half-million damages, rather a lot in a 5c/book industry, and agreed never to publish again. Technically they didn't 'lose')...
+Joseph Bentley - But that's not the whole story--Superman's powers expanded for several reasons (the popular Fleischer cartoons thought it easier and better to make him fly in 1941), but competition with 'Earth's Mightiest Mortal' was one of them in the early to mid-forties; and the 'Superman Family' was a copy of the 'Marvel Family'--a pretty big borrowing. The power competition (like Stallone and Scharzenegger competing to use bigger guns in the late 1980s through 1991 action films) happened while 'Cap' was still around...though Supes kept expanding after Fawcett stopped publishing at the end of the 40s; around that time, Superman arguably adopted (with Siegel and Schuster booted in 1947) some of the Marvel kitschyness, as it sanitized to defend against Wertham's attack. Arguably. But that's the end of any influence Cap had on Supes. Cap, on the other hand, was widely understood as a wish-fulfillment book where kids could transform themselves into a -very- Superman-like figure...and the various material borrowed from Superman books testified to Fawcett's own opinion of what they were doing. To paraphrase Jane Austen, the honor and influence between Superman and 'Cap' was nearly all GIVEN, not received. So...come on.
Unfrozen Cave Bear Interesting stuff. I didn't know all that. The thing about Captain Marvel is that he totally sucks. I always hated the whole thing about a little kid turning into a big (adult) hero. He would still be a dumb little kid who almost any enemy would be able to out-think. But that's just my opinion. I see how he had pretty good sales so obviously some kids liked him.
Thanks for posting--this gets a lot right about the essentials of the character--and is nice in its inclusion of the (John Haynes-Newton) Gerard Christopher / Stacy Haiduk 'Superboy' show that demonstrated the continued popularity of the character, which DC considered a has-been after 'Superman III' and following disasters put an end to the Chris Reeve renaissance for the character.
The prop wall section was of weaker break-way material. The door was sturdier because it still had to function as a door. The real question was why he had to sometimes shield his eyes from bullets with his hand. As the movie portrayals advanced visual effects, all that would change: ua-cam.com/video/FLN3dPMyXeg/v-deo.html
Great post, much appreciated RabbiChaimWhitz. Gives you a real understanding as to HOW the comic book industry. Revolutionized the world. i.e. Creative minds. Willing themselves, willing their ideas. Into fruition. .
In 2006, Unknown Brandon Routh made his interpretation of Superman in Superman Returns, the direct sequel to the Richard Donner Superman Movies which was set 5 years after Superman II. but the failure of Superman Returns forced Warner Bros. to reboot the troubled franchise and in 2013, Man of Steel was released and it was a hit and it starred Henry Cavill as Superman and Clark Kent.
And in a year from now, 2016 will be the first time for Batman and Superman being in a live-action featured film together called "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" with Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Aquaman in it, starring Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill returning as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg and Jason Momoa (Ronon from Stargate: Atlantis) as Aquaman which will have a minor part in the film. And I would say it's about time and I hope it's good. :) I have been waiting a long time for Batman and Superman to finally being in a movie together. And in 1993 there was a new Superman series called "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" starring Dean Cain as Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane (my favorite Superman series) then 1997 Superman: The Animated Series (also known as the New Batman Superman Adventures on Kids WB) and later in 2001 Justice League animated series featuring Superman on Cartoon Network (then 2004 it was re-titled as Justice League Unlimited, in a way it was a continuation of Batman and Superman's animated series and also connected to Batman Beyond) and Smallville starring Tom Welling as Clark Kent and it was a hit series which lasted to 2011,10 seasons and probably inspired others to do Arrow, the new Flash and Gotham series (which I'm all currently watching). Oh yeah and in 2010 there was Young Justice animated series which both featured Superboy (Conner Kent, a hybrid clone of Superman and Lex Luthor) and Superman.
Oops my mistake. You're right. I don't know why I was thinking of 1997. Lol I think I confused myself with The New Batman Adventures (Season 4 of Batman: The Animated Series) which I also watched then Batman Beyond later. I know it aired in 1997 and it's the same year where Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was also canceled after 4 seasons. I wonder what would have happen if Lois & Clark went to 5 seasons since at the series finale a baby was delivered to them.
I've seen an other documentary that stated that the two creators of Superman were Jewish boys and fashioned Superman as a Messianic figure.... I hoping to locate it.
to think i'm watching this quarter century old documentary (hashtag twenty seventeen commonno domini) about a three quarter century old drawing of an inifinitely iconic premise of humanity with the twenty-six characters at my fingertips while this is true, still somehow, it will have been read more times than i have read it, certainly more times than i have written it, and yet upon releasing it, i still call such a thing a click-of-a-mouse... dumbo lives, you are blesst
This is what it was like back in the 1950s and big superman was on TV and when anyone sees it in any time of any year sees it as a great TV show and George reeves was to his fans for the years to come
John Carter was another new epic hero--hit all those King Arthur, Jesus, Moses characters who fight for the good with spectacular somethings far beyond those of mortal men, each in their own epic story, with a mysterious birth origin and tremendous skill at arms and usually some other stuff. John Carter's different, less serious, more modern innovation, using early science fiction pulp instead of prophecy, magic, or, say, a reforged excalibur analogue of immense fame, named 'Wrath' that can kill even the greatest dragon-giant--if you're germanic hero Sigurd the Volsung, Dragonslayer, possessed after taking care of the dragon of something extra beyond dragon gold, a little twist fate nudges in for him: conversation with the wisdom of the natural world, including the speech of birds, and more. Or...jump real good---and strong. They're all related. Yes, Superman borrowed the gravity discrepancy thing from Barsoom and its epic hero John Carter--a clever modernization of often legendary characters. Yes, Siegel and Schuster knew that character and totally reborrowed super-jumping and strength created by evolution on a high-gravity world. No magic, just technofantasy! But Superman drew from a lot of those other names, too--I'm sure he and Schuster loved Barsoom, but in the five years after Superman fictionally saved Siegel's father from death in a petty robbery and the time they went to print, he took what fit and expanded from many places--plenty of early Tarzan in there, New Deal humanistic spirit, the concept of a hyper-evolved human with mind and body the same but much perfected compared to our own--not perfected in that he was perfect, just awesome. He's got the social responsibility, the supremely powerful champion Samson who defended the Israelites until character flaws, but he was even more larger than life than Samson, and his darkness and distinctive urgency to help came from the almost unspoken realization you put together that...he was the last of his kind and had lost two sets of parents. And dutifully acted like a geed 70% of the time, so he could work when he needed to. Didn't whine about being the last Son of any race of mortal men, didn't take more than occasional surreptitious glee at confusion over him. If he stumbled onto a bad housing situation, there would shortly be a very fine set of apartments available via his strength, speed, and engineering talent as the son of the greatest scientist of a race of a planet of supermen. -Carter inspired an important early concept or three, including genre-shifting into sci-fi. But there were a lot more sources, and a lot more S&S brought to him on their own. "Bad writers borrow, and steal. Great writers, imitate, then improve." -TS Eliot "And while failure is an orphan, success has many fathers." -Anonymous ancient, I think.
@@theunknowncommenter725 WRONG I simply read up a few articles examaning the possible surface and below-surface symbolism of certain pop-culture icons and phenomenons.
Most kids got to who superman was from seeing George reeves superman TV show that would have people to want to see other people playing superman from knowing of the George reeves give people to know what was superman so by the time superman the movie with Christopher reeves they would a really know of superman this help it
The videos all keep saying that Superman's powers were apparently common to everyone on Krypton. WRONG! Their abilities were quite normal. As everyone from the 50' knows, it was the difference between Krypton's red sun and Earth's yellow sun that made the difference. Somehow.
Gladiator was about a man who had been experimented on when he was a child, and grew up to have Super Powers. He was lonely as a kid, and he built his own Fortress in the woods to play in, made out of knocked down redwood trees, that he had gathered himself. He ran into many tragic situations, because of his Powers, and was never able to lead a normal life. At the end of the story, he seemed to have destroyed himself, by allowing a bolt of lightning to strike him. There are many parallels to the Superman story in this science fiction tale, including a scene where the Hero lifts a car with one hand.
***** well you'd have to be otherwise you're a complete idiot. After all, he doesn't wear his "jocks" outside of his costume when he's dressed normally. And they're not really jocks since they're baggier than jocks and have belt loops. And morons who think they're smart always think they're impressing people by making jokes about Superman.
deepvoodoo He wears his costume under his suit and regardless of how one view another’s underwear they are jocks, and jocks can be baggy, and belt loops can be added, but they are still jocks. And seeing that Superman isn’t real, jokes will be made; only an idiot will become upset over a Superman joke.
***** The people who created Superman are real, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, the people who wore his suit are real, George Reeves, etc. insulting Superman is basically insulting those dead men, which is in extremely poor taste. Only an idiot will make a stupid Superman joke and then try desperately to defend it. Pathetic.
A humanoid beyond the norm...a more modest degree of super strength, vastly different plot and character arc...until a couple of decades ago, Moses, Hercules, Samson would be mentioned, but Doc Savage wasn't even considered worth mentioning. I'm not particularly convinced myself--even though I am fell aware Savage once impressively picked up, what was it--a tractor, right. He has more in common with Sir Gawain, Rama, Samson or Cuchulainn. Or...Egil Skallagrimsson, for that matter. You need a little more. -Also: steel? not in the same category as Gold, silver and bronze. In fact, it's perfect if you follow Hesiod through those ages of man to our own, men driven by heavy labor, want, pain, hardship The fabled Age of the Men of Iron: us. Steel, the perfect optimistic variation on the metal to be the right metaphor. Oh--and no one every says "It's truly sad no one reads 'Gladiator' anymore. Book had so much to offer! In a slight contrast, the early Superman stories showed comics could be a profitable medium sold at news stands. By the millions, along with a hundred and more other characters who were all Superman ripoffs or rewrites to varying degrees. Hundreds of books with each their own costumed and secretive hero, all blazing in four-color glory in newstands or on floats above a thousand parades (those were just Superman). Or....on FDR's desk during the war, whatever. But yeah, Doc Savage...totally just a rip off of...he's the one who's fat and bounces around in the 30th century, yes?
The Man of Steel vs The Man of Bronze? Both named Clark. Both had a hide-a-way in the Arctic Circle named the Fortress of Solitude? Sorry but the writers of Superman ripped off a great deal from Doc Savage. Bitch all you want about it.
@@bjbell52 Actually, Batman took a bit of inspiration from Doc Savage as well. Doc Savage had his own Secret Headquarters, filled with a lab and crime fighting equipment, his own vehicles, including an early version of a helicopter, and an automobile with hidden weapons. And Doc even had a rope hidden in his belt, and a grappling hook. He also carried gas pellets, flash grenades, and other exotic weapons, that were hidden in his outfit. Sounds a bit like Batman, doesn't it?
@@darkwolf-22 Oh you mean hidden in Doc's UTILITY BELT....Opps, I meant vest. Doc, like Bruce, was one of the richest people in the country. Doc, like Bruce, was train from childhood to be the best crime fighter, physically and mentally. Doc was eventually called Detective, just like Bruce. I somewhat agree with what you said about the secret Headquarters. Batman's headquarters were a secret. Doc had a secret lab in his Fortress of Solitude but his headquarters with all the crime fighting equipment was known to be on the 86th floor of the tallest building in New York City. Sometimes Monk might use his own lad and the vehicles were kept in a secret location - The Hidalgo Trading Company.
I don't like leaving negative reviews, but this documentary had utterly poor pacing. It spent several minutes showing you the entirety of Corn Flakes commercials, long excerpts from other movies with the same actors, and then even a good several minutes of a Super Dog (!) episode, but then flew by everything from 1960 on (including the Reeves Superman) in a minute or two. I'm not one to complain about "wasting time", because caveat emptor, but if there are other good documentaries out there on this topic, then I would skip this one.
This documentary made a lot of use of public domain material, like the Stamp Day for Superman lost episode, or some of the old Superman Kellogg's commercials. You're right, they did skip around a lot of Superman's history, probably because they couldn't pay for some of the footage they would have needed to have shown. For instance, when they covered the Christopher Reeve Era of Superman, they didn't show any clips, not even a trailer, from any of the movies.
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I still have both the Story of Superman & Batmania on my VHS'. I will always love both these documentaries til my last day.
I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. My first introduction to Superman was my uncle showed me "The New Adventures of Superman" cartoon from 1966, I eventually started reading the comics from DC. I'm now in my late 30's and I still enjoy reading and watching Superman.
The Fleischer Studios cartoons is still a joy to watch and listen to.
I tell people who say they don't like Superman to read the Jerry Siegel '30s-'40s comics reprints. Watch the Bud Collyer/Fleischer/Filmation cartoons, George Reeves and Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan. Most people only know the campy over-powered Christopher Reeve and teen-angst Smaillville and depressed/brooding reckless joyless Henry Cavill reboot.
Well, the Fleischer cartoons followed a simplistic format. Watching one can be entertaining, but watching more than two you get the sense that you're watching the same story over and over again.
The Fleischer Superman cartoons was one of my childhood favorites to watch.
“Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s SUPERMAN!
Yes, it’s SUPERMAN: strange visitor from the planet Krypton, who came to Earth with amazing mental/physical powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. SUPERMAN, who can leap tall buildings in a single bound, race a speeding bullet to its target, bend steel with his bare hands. SUPERMAN, defender of law and order, champion of equal rights, a valiant and courageous fighter against the forces of hate and prejudice, and who disguised as ‘Clark Kent,’ mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice and the American Way!”
Superman is the superhero that started it all.
Superman was inspired by the legend of the Hebrew indestructible Golem Nothing else
That's false. Superman has nothing to do with the evil golem character from jewish stories who is mindless and the turns on his creators. Superman is instead inspired by eugenics science of the 1930s, along with Jon Carter, Gladiator, and Harold Lloyd films for Clark Kent, with athletic tights. That's what Siegel & Shuster created.
Rest in ☮️ to the original cast of Superman TV Show.
Thank you for posting this video as well! I never knew this one existed!!!!
I remember this documentary as a kid. Been looking for years. Thanks for uploading.
Will someone do me the kind favor of identifying the recurring background music?
EXCELLENT historical video.
Thank U for such a wonderful documentary, Loved it!
This is wonderful :) Thanks for posting this ! It was so interesting, I love Superman !
This brings back those wonderful memories of finding really cool VHS tapes in those bargain bins. VHS tapes if cared for properly never freeze.
You're right, I've still got a bunch.
I am British and the Superman and Batman and Superboy comic books were my favourite comic books in the 1950's and into the 1960's. My grandparents who were Dutch migrants to Detroit Michigan in the USA sent me the newspaper comic strips every year in a parcel for Christmas as well as jars of Donald Duck peanut butter which wasn't available here in the UK during the 1950's. American comics became very popular here and were much better than the OK comics during that era and still popular today for comic book collectors. The Superman DC comics of the 1950's and 1960's can still be purchased today but can be very expensive as many good condition ones fetch high prices depending on when they were published. I had many in pristine condition and in boxes but unfortunately they were given away when I joined the Royal Navy back in 1964. They would have cost a fortune today being very collectable.
Forgot about the Toronto star in those early days actually did play a part in the start of superman, in the early days the Daily Planet went by the Daily Star. Thanks to the Toronto Star. Maybe you did know but only have so much time.
They were 13 live action actors who played Superman, Kirk Alyn in the two serials, George Reeves in the Adventures of Superman tv series, John Rockwell in the unsold Superboy tv pilot, David Wilson in the ABC adapted broadway Superman musical, Christopher Reeve in the four Superman movies, John Haymes Newton in season 1 of Superboy, Gerard Christopher in seasons 2, 3 and 4 of Superboy, Dean Cain in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Tom Welling in Smallville, Brandon Routh in Superman Returns, Henry Cavill in Man of Steel, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League and Tyler Hoechlin in Supergirl.
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Superman. GOAT
Great Stuff! Nobody but nobody ever again like George Reeves's SUPERMAN!
LOVED IT.....................
The first time I saw Superman was reruns of the old George Reeves series.When i was almost 5,I got my first Superman comic book-which was # 133. I know now this was the first Superman comic book Jerry Siegel had written for in over ten years.
OMG! someone in the 21century who can properly pronounce "mix yez pitilyk! i thought
i was alone in the world... thank you! great
job :-)
Mark Edwards Not so much. DC comics printed the phonetic pronunciation once at least some 50 odd years ago. I was
lucky enough to have an uncle who shared his comic books and got a chance to read it then.
You aren't alone... The mix-l-plick pronunciation drives me crazy...
Daniel Gear never heard that one. Most of the people I know ((if they know of the imp at all) just skip over it l lol.
I used Windows voice to see if it could pronounce "Mxyzptlk" -- what I got sounded more like "rrfff."
Can’t believe Superman’s costume was inspired by circus high flying act outfit. Since 1990 documentary, there was the death of Superman in the comics, four tv series and upcoming reboot of The Man of Steel at movie theaters.
Great Doco... the early Superman is so cool....
I thoroughly enjoyed that documentary.
In 1959, Superman introduces his teenage cousin Supergirl in Action Comics #252.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Growing up in 1960's England my brother and I went to Saturday matinee at the local cinema. One of the regulars was George Reeve's Superman but to be honest at my young age my favourites were Zorro and Rocket Man although we read the comic books.
Yup, also The Lone Ranger, Rin Tin Tin, Roy Rogers, Highway Patrol, Branded with Chuck Conners, and the other TV heros of my childhood. Born 1956
One way or the other you saw the 3 great entities. Wish someone wd do a vid on the UK edition of this whole genre in & of itself and in comparison to the US.
John Hamilton wouldn't eat that on a bet. He'd want bacon and eggs and say, "take that slop away".
Superman was indeed shown flying in Superman and the Molemen.
Molemen flew around too when the cameras were not turning!
Calvin you are right. Great memory!
carol tenge well, it could be my great memory, but it's more likely because I have the entire series on DVD, and it hasn't been all that long since I saw it.
I remember Superman rescuing one of the Mole Men who had fallen off a dam.
Love your name... Lol.... The vid's pretty cool too.
Great docu.
Yes, George Reeves put a .38 round in his head. He was depressed, and could not get work after Superman was cancelled. He was typecast, and too well known as Superman. He had other personal problems around the time of his death. I loved Superman stuff when I was a kid. Bought DC comic books of him & Batman.
Kirk Alyn was a song and dance man on Broadway..he also knew Red Skelton.
NICE POSTING GETS A LOT ABOUT THE MAN OF TOMORROW RIGHT! NEEDS A JUST AS GOOD UPDATE THOUGH!
"We shall strike such a terror in your homeland, that you will never dare come here, again." Yeah, how'd THAT work out for you, Chuckles? :-D
I wanna see the superman documentary with kevin spacey narrating it :(
WHAAAAAT! LOL!!
Louis Hamilton
Lol to be fair that previous comment is 3 years old
Corn Flakes used to be good. Now 93 percent of corn is Monsanto frankencorn.
Amos andy
PHORNOS
Amos andy
Just add gasoline......
Saw dust
I used to own this VHS
whos got it now?
I could swear one of the two boys talking about 'stamps' is a very young Harry Shearer! (he was the first "Eddie Haskell" in the pilot of "Leave it to Beaver" in '57, before Ken Osmond...I think Harry said his parents didn't want to sign an 'exclusive' contract that would prevent him from doing any other performing for the run of the show, so he did only one original episode) Boy, did he lose out on THAT deal!
Why did he lose out? He ended up being Homer Simpson! Who even knows who Ken Osmond is anymore?
William Avitt He would have been 'Homer' regardless of whether or not he stayed on 'Beaver" Ken Osmond was so 'type-cast' he really didn't have a chance to perform anymore after 'Beaver' was canceled.
(when I wrote 'lost out' I meant in terms of income over the run of the show...which would have been considerably more than Shearer made doing 'bit roles' 'walk-ons' and the occasional commercial
Five years of paychecks when you're a young teen is 'pretty good' in my book!)
Gerry Nightingale You don't know that he still would have been Homer Simpson had he been Eddie Haskell. What's to say Harry wouldn't have seen the same typecasting that Ken Osmand got? So yeah, he would have gotten 5 years of steady paychecks, but may have missed out on 25+ years of steady paychecks and risiduals from being one of the most beloved characters on probably the single most successful primetime television series (animated or otherwise). I think Harry made out just fine
William Avitt I don't know how to respond to the scenario of "If Shearer had stayed as 'Haskell' he may not have been "Homer".
That's equivalent to saying 'there's no point in doing anything...we're all going to die at some point, so why bother?'
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Have you considered that Shearer is performing a 'voice-over' for the character of "Homer?" He's NOT on-camera' himself!
Matt Groening developed the character of "Homer" long before Harry Shearer auditioned for the 'voice-role'.
Shearer was NOT "Homer" on the old "Tracy Ullman Show", which is where "The Simpsons' made their debut...and Homer's basic personality traits were already 'in-place'.
(Btw...Ken Osmond has done plenty of 'voice-overs' in the last fifty years...but there is no way to know in advance 'what will be a hit' like
"Scooby-Doo", etc.)
Harry is not Homer... Dan Castellana is.
I like the Superman all the movies the late actor did doing the 70s and the Fleischer caroon
At the first of this , it says Superman was inspired by Zeus, Hercules and other such characters. Captain Marvel was the one that was inspired by these characters. The word Shazam , which was the name of the elder that gave Billy Batson his powers to become Captain Marvel, is discribed as S ( wisdom of Solomon) H ( strength of Hercules), Z( power of Zeus) and so on. I think the creator of this post got it confused with the first chapter of The Adventures Of Captain Marvel where the elder explains this to Billy Batson.
Yeah, if Auperman had any direct inspiration it was Moses with the whole "sent away in a basket/escape pod" origin.
I guess you could argue the concept of superheroes takes inspiration from the demigods of Greek myth.
But I don't think Suoerman was copying any of them specifically. Especially since Greek demigods usually have tragic lives and often cause as much harm as good.
very thanks
Superman was originally and antagonist ... From WIKIPEDIA : In January 1933, Siegel published a short story in his fanzine titled "The Reign of the Superman". The titular character is a vagrant named Bill Dunn who is tricked by an evil scientist into consuming an experimental drug. The drug gives Dunn the powers of mind-reading, mind-control, and clairvoyance. He uses these powers maliciously for profit and amusement, but then the drug wears off, leaving him a powerless vagrant again. Shuster provided illustrations, depicting Dunn as a bald man.[10]
Siegel and Shuster shifted to making comic strips, with the ambition of becoming professional comic authors. Siegel observed that comic strips featuring villainous protagonists such as Fu Manchu tended to struggle, whereas strips with heroic characters such as Tarzan were more popular,[11] so he and Shuster reinvented Superman as a crime-fighting hero. Like Bill Dunn, this second prototype of Superman is given powers against his will by an unscrupulous scientist, but instead of psychic abilities, he acquires superhuman strength and bullet-proof skin.
3:57 Ah I think they're playing Gustav Holst's Symphony of the Planets. The Saturn piece I believe?
Bruh 2:30 Superman's Hype Man is lit ☄️
My favorite power of Superman's is "Super Whispering." With it, he can talk to any individual person that he wants to, anywhere he or they are, and only they can hear him (he can super whisper to more than one person at the same time as well of course). It's a good power and only 'Supes' has it!
Making him a god is boring..that's DC's problem..too many overpowered heroes. He basically took Captain Marvel's powers after they sewed and won...Captain Marvel (Now legally Shazam) became more popular that Superman and DC wasn't having it. After they won they kept adding powers. He really should just be able to jump far and be strong, that's it.
+Joseph Bentley As far as characters that carry their own titles, who is overpowered besides Supes? Three heroes comparable in power, Shazam, Martian Manhunter, and The Spectre all don't currently have their own titles. Besides that anyway, the best superman stories IMO aren't when he has to fight to the death or meets some one as strong as he but when his ideals and loved ones are threatened and he must choose how to use his amazing powers, or when it's revealed that for all his powers there are many things he can't do or change.
+Joseph Bentley - You're absolutely right that the 'god' comparisons make him boring--but not that Superman 'took C. Marvel's powers after they sued'--or that Cap was 'more popular' (his one and only claim to this, a notable one, is that Cap's sales peaked at 2 million for his self-title, to Superman's 1.6 million...plus more than a million 'Action', of course, which detail is less mentioned; otherwise, Cap also had much less, well, popularity: not only was his movie serial an embarassing bust, whereas Superman's was an immense success, Superman was a cultural icon in four mediums, the creative model for all other secret-identitied-tights-wearing-superheroes, and the reason, via 'Action Comics' ' huge sales in 1938-9, that Newsstands started distributing comics beyond Tarzan-strip-compilations. 'Cap' also sold just to kids (for obvious reasons)--ACTION and 'Superman' sold to a broad range of age-groups, and 'Cap's' superhuman powers and musculature, with invulnerability and super-strength at the center and a black head of hair--crossed the line in how much they took from Superman--the suit would finally end when an entire page-layout was of Cap's was shown to be shamelessly stolen from a Superman book (along with evidence Cap had borrowed plot and other elements, and with declining sales, Fawcett settled: Fawcett payed a half-million damages, rather a lot in a 5c/book industry, and agreed never to publish again. Technically they didn't 'lose')...
+Joseph Bentley - But that's not the whole story--Superman's powers expanded for several reasons (the popular Fleischer cartoons thought it easier and better to make him fly in 1941), but competition with 'Earth's Mightiest Mortal' was one of them in the early to mid-forties; and the 'Superman Family' was a copy of the 'Marvel Family'--a pretty big borrowing. The power competition (like Stallone and Scharzenegger competing to use bigger guns in the late 1980s through 1991 action films) happened while 'Cap' was still around...though Supes kept expanding after Fawcett stopped publishing at the end of the 40s; around that time, Superman arguably adopted (with Siegel and Schuster booted in 1947) some of the Marvel kitschyness, as it sanitized to defend against Wertham's attack. Arguably. But that's the end of any influence Cap had on Supes. Cap, on the other hand, was widely understood as a wish-fulfillment book where kids could transform themselves into a -very- Superman-like figure...and the various material borrowed from Superman books testified to Fawcett's own opinion of what they were doing. To paraphrase Jane Austen, the honor and influence between Superman and 'Cap' was nearly all GIVEN, not received. So...come on.
Unfrozen Cave Bear Interesting stuff. I didn't know all that.
The thing about Captain Marvel is that he totally sucks. I always hated the whole thing about a little kid turning into a big (adult) hero. He would still be a dumb little kid who almost any enemy would be able to out-think.
But that's just my opinion. I see how he had pretty good sales so obviously some kids liked him.
Thanks for posting--this gets a lot right about the essentials of the character--and is nice in its inclusion of the (John Haynes-Newton) Gerard Christopher / Stacy Haiduk 'Superboy' show that demonstrated the continued popularity of the character, which DC considered a has-been after 'Superman III' and following disasters put an end to the Chris Reeve renaissance for the character.
those commercials were real 'corny'lol
Why was Jimmy having breakfast with Clark? Did he spend the night?
I often wondered why Superman broke through walls instead of using the door.
The prop wall section was of weaker break-way material. The door was sturdier because it still had to function as a door.
The real question was why he had to sometimes shield his eyes from bullets with his hand.
As the movie portrayals advanced visual effects, all that would change:
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Superman is an alien plot from the moon aliens. The Human antagonist stone is moldavite.
Uma pena que nao entendo o ingles gosto demais spm muito bom
Great post, much appreciated RabbiChaimWhitz.
Gives you a real understanding as to HOW the comic book industry.
Revolutionized the world.
i.e. Creative minds.
Willing themselves, willing their ideas.
Into fruition.
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Just occurred to me, Superman is an illegal alien!I suppose he might qualify for D.A.C.A. though.....
George's real last name was Brewer.
In 1959, Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El/Supergirl made her debut in Action Comics #252.
In 2006, Unknown Brandon Routh made his interpretation of Superman in Superman Returns, the direct sequel to the Richard Donner Superman Movies which was set 5 years after Superman II. but the failure of Superman Returns forced Warner Bros. to reboot the troubled franchise and in 2013, Man of Steel was released and it was a hit and it starred Henry Cavill as Superman and Clark Kent.
And in a year from now, 2016 will be the first time for Batman and Superman being in a live-action featured film together called "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" with Wonder Woman, Cyborg and Aquaman in it, starring Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill returning as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ray Fisher as Cyborg and Jason Momoa (Ronon from Stargate: Atlantis) as Aquaman which will have a minor part in the film. And I would say it's about time and I hope it's good. :) I have been waiting a long time for Batman and Superman to finally being in a movie together.
And in 1993 there was a new Superman series called "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" starring Dean Cain as Superman and Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane (my favorite Superman series) then 1997 Superman: The Animated Series (also known as the New Batman Superman Adventures on Kids WB) and later in 2001 Justice League animated series featuring Superman on Cartoon Network (then 2004 it was re-titled as Justice League Unlimited, in a way it was a continuation of Batman and Superman's animated series and also connected to Batman Beyond) and Smallville starring Tom Welling as Clark Kent and it was a hit series which lasted to 2011,10 seasons and probably inspired others to do Arrow, the new Flash and Gotham series (which I'm all currently watching). Oh yeah and in 2010 there was Young Justice animated series which both featured Superboy (Conner Kent, a hybrid clone of Superman and Lex Luthor) and Superman.
Actually, Superman: The Animated Series first aired on KidsWB in September 1996.
Oops my mistake. You're right. I don't know why I was thinking of 1997. Lol I think I confused myself with The New Batman Adventures (Season 4 of Batman: The Animated Series) which I also watched then Batman Beyond later. I know it aired in 1997 and it's the same year where Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was also canceled after 4 seasons. I wonder what would have happen if Lois & Clark went to 5 seasons since at the series finale a baby was delivered to them.
Ryan Kadlec good idea 💡
It's funny everyone calls "Superman Returns" a failure when it outperformed "Batman Begins" at the box-office.
Clark Kent’s name was combination of two actors.
Notice that all the U.S. flags have 48 stars. The shows are definitely a product of their time.
I've seen an other documentary that stated that the two creators of Superman were Jewish boys and fashioned Superman as a Messianic figure.... I hoping to locate it.
to think i'm watching this quarter century old documentary (hashtag twenty seventeen commonno domini) about a three quarter century old drawing of an inifinitely iconic premise of humanity with the twenty-six characters at my fingertips
while this is true, still somehow, it will have been read more times than i have read it, certainly more times than i have written it, and yet upon releasing it, i still call such a thing a click-of-a-mouse... dumbo lives, you are blesst
Jameskelley
SUPERMAN
Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
This is what it was like back in the 1950s and big superman was on TV and when anyone sees it in any time of any year sees it as a great TV show and George reeves was to his fans for the years to come
Is this the voice of He Man??
By the power of GREY SKULL!!!
Sarah Lindsey that was John Erwin who voiced Prince Adam and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.
I don't know why but I'm going to run out and get some Sugar Frosted Flakes.
Bob Hope Thanks for the memories.
Other noteworthy villains included: Brainiac, Toyman, Prankster, the Parasite, Metallo, and Terra-Man.
I always thought Superman was inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars series.
It was the creators said that was one of their influences
It was the creators said that was one of their influences
It was the creators said that was one of their influences
John Carter was another new epic hero--hit all those King Arthur, Jesus, Moses characters who fight for the good with spectacular somethings far beyond those of mortal men, each in their own epic story, with a mysterious birth origin and tremendous skill at arms and usually some other stuff. John Carter's different, less serious, more modern innovation, using early science fiction pulp instead of prophecy, magic, or, say, a reforged excalibur analogue of immense fame, named 'Wrath' that can kill even the greatest dragon-giant--if you're germanic hero Sigurd the Volsung, Dragonslayer, possessed after taking care of the dragon of something extra beyond dragon gold, a little twist fate nudges in for him: conversation with the wisdom of the natural world, including the speech of birds, and more. Or...jump real good---and strong. They're all related. Yes, Superman borrowed the gravity discrepancy thing from Barsoom and its epic hero John Carter--a clever modernization of often legendary characters. Yes, Siegel and Schuster knew that character and totally reborrowed super-jumping and strength created by evolution on a high-gravity world. No magic, just technofantasy!
But Superman drew from a lot of those other names, too--I'm sure he and Schuster loved Barsoom, but in the five years after Superman fictionally saved Siegel's father from death in a petty robbery and the time they went to print, he took what fit and expanded from many places--plenty of early Tarzan in there, New Deal humanistic spirit, the concept of a hyper-evolved human with mind and body the same but much perfected compared to our own--not perfected in that he was perfect, just awesome. He's got the social responsibility, the supremely powerful champion Samson who defended the Israelites until character flaws, but he was even more larger than life than Samson, and his darkness and distinctive urgency to help came from the almost unspoken realization you put together that...he was the last of his kind and had lost two sets of parents. And dutifully acted like a geed 70% of the time, so he could work when he needed to. Didn't whine about being the last Son of any race of mortal men, didn't take more than occasional surreptitious glee at confusion over him. If he stumbled onto a bad housing situation, there would shortly be a very fine set of apartments available via his strength, speed, and engineering talent as the son of the greatest scientist of a race of a planet of supermen.
-Carter inspired an important early concept or three, including genre-shifting into sci-fi. But there were a lot more sources, and a lot more S&S brought to him on their own.
"Bad writers borrow, and steal. Great writers, imitate, then improve." -TS Eliot
"And while failure is an orphan, success has many fathers." -Anonymous ancient, I think.
Hmmm, Superman bringing thew plane safely to earth reminds me of a scene in the Superman movies … whatever could that be? - LOL!
Zhin Ra?
Superman (Sionman) is basically the popculture-version for the iconography of the Anti-Messiah.
How so?
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@@dignerds just a paranoid troll trying to stir up trouble for no reason.
@@theunknowncommenter725 WRONG
I simply read up a few articles examaning the possible surface and below-surface symbolism of certain pop-culture icons and phenomenons.
@@Angyali Paranoid fools. Every single one of them. Don't listen to them.
Most kids got to who superman was from seeing George reeves superman TV show that would have people to want to see other people playing superman from knowing of the George reeves give people to know what was superman so by the time superman the movie with Christopher reeves they would a really know of superman this help it
The videos all keep saying that Superman's powers were apparently common to everyone on Krypton. WRONG! Their abilities were quite normal. As everyone from the 50' knows, it was the difference between Krypton's red sun and Earth's yellow sun that made the difference. Somehow.
George Reeves was the best Superman, and an even better Clark Kent. He played Clark perfectly.
Very uneven documentary, i.e. segments about Kelloggs Corn Flakes and Superpup went on way too long.
the all american hero co-created by a canadian.
Jews*
Superman was created here in my home town Cleveland
Best Superman ever George Reeves.
Inspired by Gladiator (written by Phillip Wylie)...doubtful either Siegel or Schuster ever read it. Possible, but there's no proof.
Gladiator was about a man who had been experimented on when he was a child, and grew up to have Super Powers. He was lonely as a kid, and he built his own Fortress in the woods to play in, made out of knocked down redwood trees, that he had gathered himself. He ran into many tragic situations, because of his Powers, and was never able to lead a normal life. At the end of the story, he seemed to have destroyed himself, by allowing a bolt of lightning to strike him. There are many parallels to the Superman story in this science fiction tale, including a scene where the Hero lifts a car with one hand.
Superman, highly intelligent and powerful, yet cannot dress himself, always wearing his jocks outside of his tights.
+Robert Wow, you're the first person to ever make that joke! It's not like it's an annoying cliché or something! You're so clever!
deepvoodoo
Who said I was joking?
***** well you'd have to be otherwise you're a complete idiot. After all, he doesn't wear his "jocks" outside of his costume when he's dressed normally. And they're not really jocks since they're baggier than jocks and have belt loops. And morons who think they're smart always think they're impressing people by making jokes about Superman.
deepvoodoo
He wears his costume under his suit and regardless of how one view another’s underwear they are jocks, and jocks can be baggy, and belt loops can be added, but they are still jocks. And seeing that Superman isn’t real, jokes will be made; only an idiot will become upset over a Superman joke.
***** The people who created Superman are real, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, the people who wore his suit are real, George Reeves, etc. insulting Superman is basically insulting those dead men, which is in extremely poor taste. Only an idiot will make a stupid Superman joke and then try desperately to defend it. Pathetic.
George is the only Superman for me. PS The Japanese we’re sinister, you forgot to mention Pearl Harbor.
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Superman should have been nicknamed "The man of steal" considering how much they stole from pulp magazine's Doc Savage "The man of bronze".
A humanoid beyond the norm...a more modest degree of super strength, vastly different plot and character arc...until a couple of decades ago, Moses, Hercules, Samson would be mentioned, but Doc Savage wasn't even considered worth mentioning. I'm not particularly convinced myself--even though I am fell aware Savage once impressively picked up, what was it--a tractor, right. He has more in common with Sir Gawain, Rama, Samson or Cuchulainn. Or...Egil Skallagrimsson, for that matter. You need a little more.
-Also: steel? not in the same category as Gold, silver and bronze. In fact, it's perfect if you follow Hesiod through those ages of man to our own, men driven by heavy labor, want, pain, hardship The fabled Age of the Men of Iron: us. Steel, the perfect optimistic variation on the metal to be the right metaphor.
Oh--and no one every says "It's truly sad no one reads 'Gladiator' anymore. Book had so much to offer! In a slight contrast, the early Superman stories showed comics could be a profitable medium sold at news stands. By the millions, along with a hundred and more other characters who were all Superman ripoffs or rewrites to varying degrees. Hundreds of books with each their own costumed and secretive hero, all blazing in four-color glory in newstands or on floats above a thousand parades (those were just Superman). Or....on FDR's desk during the war, whatever.
But yeah, Doc Savage...totally just a rip off of...he's the one who's fat and bounces around in the 30th century, yes?
The Man of Steel vs The Man of Bronze? Both named Clark. Both had a hide-a-way in the Arctic Circle named the Fortress of Solitude? Sorry but the writers of Superman ripped off a great deal from Doc Savage. Bitch all you want about it.
@@bjbell52 Actually, Batman took a bit of inspiration from Doc Savage as well. Doc Savage had his own Secret Headquarters, filled with a lab and crime fighting equipment, his own vehicles, including an early version of a helicopter, and an automobile with hidden weapons. And Doc even had a rope hidden in his belt, and a grappling hook. He also carried gas pellets, flash grenades, and other exotic weapons, that were hidden in his outfit. Sounds a bit like Batman, doesn't it?
@@darkwolf-22 Oh you mean hidden in Doc's UTILITY BELT....Opps, I meant vest.
Doc, like Bruce, was one of the richest people in the country. Doc, like Bruce, was train from childhood to be the best crime fighter, physically and mentally. Doc was eventually called Detective, just like Bruce.
I somewhat agree with what you said about the secret Headquarters. Batman's headquarters were a secret. Doc had a secret lab in his Fortress of Solitude but his headquarters with all the crime fighting equipment was known to be on the 86th floor of the tallest building in New York City. Sometimes Monk might use his own lad and the vehicles were kept in a secret location - The Hidalgo Trading Company.
Samson was not a mythical god
Samson was obviously based on Hercules. There's actually quite a lot of Greek Mythology in the Bible.
I don't like leaving negative reviews, but this documentary had utterly poor pacing. It spent several minutes showing you the entirety of Corn Flakes commercials, long excerpts from other movies with the same actors, and then even a good several minutes of a Super Dog (!) episode, but then flew by everything from 1960 on (including the Reeves Superman) in a minute or two. I'm not one to complain about "wasting time", because caveat emptor, but if there are other good documentaries out there on this topic, then I would skip this one.
This documentary made a lot of use of public domain material, like the Stamp Day for Superman lost episode, or some of the old Superman Kellogg's commercials. You're right, they did skip around a lot of Superman's history, probably because they couldn't pay for some of the footage they would have needed to have shown. For instance, when they covered the Christopher Reeve Era of Superman, they didn't show any clips, not even a trailer, from any of the movies.
12:10 30 seconds my ass! You’re an alien not a cartoon. Oh wait you become a cartoon when you takeoff and fly so never mind LOL
A lot o people don't know that Lex Luthor was originaliy a TRANSGENDER villain (utra-humanite)!
Louis Hamilton not transgender he was transspecies
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I have to say prier to 1978 Superman. It was really campy. George Reeve didn't have the heart that Christoper had. 1978 rules
you're somewhat right, schuster/seigel more than likely read those books as KIDS.....
Soulbrother Heuck WHAAAT!!!!!sorry padawan🐕
The Christopher Reeve Superman gave up his legacy and responsibility for one night of pussy
Soulbrother Heuck For us baby boomers, George Reeves will always be Superman!!!
Soulbrother Heuck agreed Christopher Reeves bring back superman to live you feel that the man was real you fly, from now on every actor who plays will be compared with him. ❤️💕💕💕