1 | fromthesidelines

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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”.

2 | RJRanke

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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.

3 | uman347

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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

4 | SUPERMEDIABROTHERS6

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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

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

5 | Rummelhart

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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?

6 | Coldspider801

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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.

7 | Pacisdiligo

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Fleischer’s animated shorts were incredible! Beautifully done and great fun. The orphanage origin is the original one found in Action Comics where Superman makes his first appearance. In the beginning, he could only leap great distances and his skin could tolerate a bursting shell!

8 | Fenris30

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

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

9 | TherealRNO

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Orphanage my foot! Ma and Pa Kent found him in Smallville (a fictional Kansas town) before Clark relocated to Metropolis (a representation of Chicago in the same way that Gotham is based off of New York).

10 | Mysterious0Bob

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Fuck AOL.

11 | TampaRed

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Fuckin’ AOL cut the end of the intro!

12 | Sener

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

Earthquakes made the planet explode? holy shit.

13 | CaptainShazam

July 3rd, 2010 at 12:49 pm

It was good. Then it got gay’d up by AOL.