Production
Max Fleischer's lavish budget: $50K per short, unheard of.
Acting
Bud Collyer's voice switch — meek Clark to booming Superman.
Director
Dave Fleischer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the sixth of seventeen Fleischer Superman shorts; Paramount demanded bigger action after the first five tested poorly with audiences.
Released during WWII, these shorts established the visual template for Superman — the blue suit, red cape, and S-shield became canon here, not the comics.
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