| What: Max Fleischer's Superman When: April 7th Studio: Warner Price: Retail $26.99, Our: 20.99 |   |
**Warner** has announced an April 7th release date for Max Fleischer's Superman. The 2-disc set will retail for $26.99, but is available at Classicflix.com for only $20.99.
According to Jerry Beck at Cartoon Brew the new transfers are "truly breaktaking," because they were done with Warner and DC Comics own master negatives. He follows with advice to dump old versions of Fleisher's Superman.
We normally do remove older, inferior releases of the same material to reduce confusion on which version is superior, however, in this case, we'll keep on VCI's 2006 release because it has a few bonus features not contained in this new set, and because VCI's lower price may be more appealing to those not overly concerned with video quality.
DETAILS:
Includes all 17 Max Fleischer Cartoons with two bonus featurettes.
- Superman (Mad Scientist) - Sept 26 1941
- The Mechanical Monsters - Nov 28 1941
- Billion Dollar Limited - January 9, 1942
- Arctic Giant - February 27, 1942
- The Bulleteers - March 27, 1942
- The Magnetic Telescope - April 24, 1942
- Electric Earthquake - May 15, 1942
- Volcano - July 10, 1942
- Terror on the Midway - August 28, 1942
- The Japoteurs - Sept 18, 1942
- Showdown - Oct 16, 1942
- The Eleventh Hour - Nov 20, 1942
- Destruction , Inc. - Dec 25, 1943
- The Mummy Strikes - Feb 19, 1943
- Jungle Drums - March 25, 1943
- Underground World - June 18, 1943
- Secret Agent - July 30, 1943
- The Man, The Myth, Superman Featurette
- First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series Featurette
I hope that Warner does a better job on this
ReplyDeletestand-alone set, then they did when they released these very same 17 cartoon with
the Superman Ultimate Collectors edition
set. They made a big deal about these,
and then totally screwed up the editing
process on the transfers, and then STILL
released them with the set without ever
publicly acknowledging that they screwed
up AGAIN, as they also did with the
Superman movie disks. I caught the errors
in the cartoon because I am intimately familiar with these Max Fleischer's Superman
cartoons. Keep your proof of purchase handy
so you can return them, just in case Warner
tries to pass off the same poorly done
cartoons from the Superman Ultimate Collectors edition. Beware.