Superman – Japoteurs (1941)
It’s Superman to the rescue when Japanese spies come to America.
It’s Superman to the rescue when Japanese spies come to America.
This is the first episode of the Max Fleischer Superman series in 1941. I love the visual style.
Deep in the jungle, a tribe of aboriginal warriors is having a celebration. Their leader is a tall man in a white cloak. Secretly, he’s really a Nazi commander, and the tribe’s sacred temple is really an underground Nazi outpost.
Superman must stop a madman from destroying Manhattan with electronically controlled earthquakes.
A mad scientist creates a giant magnet that brings celestial bodies down from the sky. The police try to destroy it just as he is in the process of bringing down a comet. This causes the comet to spin out of control and threaten to destroy the earth! Superman comes to the rescue.
Superman gets bad press because an imposter is committing crimes in a Superman outfit.