Comments on: Superman: Electric Earthquake

By: nosemint05

nosemint05 — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:00:01 +0000

a nice classic cartoon, it’s amazing it came out in 1942…how do i download this?

By: fantasticus

fantasticus — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:51:24 +0000

I liked this Max Fleisher cartoon so much I put it to the music of Sufjan Stevens and posted here at Archive.org. Check it out (and write a review please) at

http://www.archive.org/details/ManOfMetropolisIsQueued

By: Patrick A Rossi Sr

Patrick A Rossi Sr — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:46:25 +0000

Strong message with ethnic over tones. Will claim what is rightfully ours and no one is going to stop us. Isn’t this what is going on all around our world today. In the end, good triumphs over evil.

By: doowopbob

doowopbob — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:57:09 +0000

Enuff Already……These Are Cartoons!…You Can Buy All 17..on The Bosko DVD Release At Amazon..They Are All Restored From Best 35 Milimeter Prints Avail………..Cost Is $12.00………And Nobody Cares About Your Dumbassed Opinions!…..There Was A War Going On…….To Protect The Future For Idiots Like You!

By: JorjCurieux

JorjCurieux — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:14:55 +0000

These older Fleischer animations are quite appealing even today! Very interesting how the evil dark-skinned human is portrayed as highly educated. The bigotry in this sort of entertainment is so overt yet highly effective. Perhaps less effective today. Moral of the story: I am white, hence I and my culture is superior to every other on this planet. I can make laws, break laws and remake laws at will! I can literally takeover anyone else’s property and reclaim it to be mine. This notion will not be intellectually challenged, since I have already defined myself to be supreme!

By: apenny13

apenny13 — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:23:03 +0000

Nice older animation of superman. These older color superman videos are fun to watch. Very enjoyable and good quality.

By: op712

op712 — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:25:24 +0000

Give it the era of the 1940′s storywriting, script and animation to come up with classic heroic adventures of our favorite comic book hero. No complaints here at all.

But, interesting that one said that this cartoon was 13 frames off-sync to the sound to picture. REALLY (interesting that one can count such an exact frame count just by watching a film).

If such a film had THAT much off-sync delay from picture to sound, it would be horribly noticable to where the contributer would have reproduced this transfer to correct such a sync problem long before posting this on this site.

Still was great to see anyway..and I didn’t have that sync problem on my download.

By: RainRain

RainRain — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:00:03 +0000

This movie is 13 frames out of sync (audio is late). Is this just my problem, and if so can someone explain to me how to fix it? It would be kind of nice if someone could fix the download – as it is, I find it almost impossible to watch.

By: Spuzz

Spuzz — Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:58:41 +0000

This is one of the better Superman cartoons IÃƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚?ve seen. An evil unnamed person demands that Manhattan be returned to Ãƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚?his peopleÃƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚? (just what these are is not revealed). Ãƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚?Why thatÃƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚?s fantastic!Ãƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚? Lois says, and after he is rebuffed by Clark and his boss for a story on this, He storms out, but Lois secretly follows him to his lair! Realizing the girl, he kidnaps her, and forces her to watch the Evil Man destroy the city, fortunately, Clark, rather lamely I must say, says Ãƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚?This is a job for SupermanÃƒ?Ã‚?Ãƒ?Ã‚? and promptly gets crushed.

By: nitewing98

nitewing98 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 06:57:24 +0000

I’ve seen several of these Fleischer cartoons and feel they’ve been underrated. The glowing colors, the inevitable verbal putdown from Lois to Clark at the end as he knowingly winks at us, the heroic strain in every fiber of Superman’s body, all combine to make these some of greatest of the animator’s art of their time.

By: George_Kaplan

George_Kaplan — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:28:58 +0000

This is for my money the most entertaining of these old Superman cartoons. Really fascinating because of its Native American villain, who terrorizes Manhattan (not yet Metropolis) in order to get the land back for “my people.” The white folks at the Daily Planet call his belated desire to decolonize Manhattan “fantastic” and “ridiculous.” By having us side with Superman, flying white guy from another planet, as he defeats this villain, the cartoon reaffirms & naturalizes the “right” of white Americans to possess land appropriated from Native Americans by previous generations of white Americans. Interesting stuff.

By: rrrrrrrr

rrrrrrrr — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:17:30 +0000

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By: Gman

Gman — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 05:11:01 +0000

What I like about these Fleischer Supermans is that he is animated as a super man. There’s a real feeling of weight and strain behind each feat. Objects do not “feel” like styrofoam as in some recent CGed super hero live action films. I would say these are greatest film incarnation of the character, in my humble opinion. All deserve 5 stars.
What is interesting to note about this one specifically is that the antagonist, while a Native American, is not the Hollywood stereotype nor a Tonto-like “noble savage”. He’s evil but he’s a genius….he’s an evil genius…on par with a Lex Luthor or Joker. Perhaps a backhanded progress but nevertheless progress for Hollywood (Yes, I know it was made in Miami).

Gee..all he wanted was Manhattan…he has a point…wasn’t like he was trying to take over the world.

By: shy8899

shy8899 — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 02:33:21 +0000

By: crvernon

crvernon — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:25:27 +0000

This is well worth a watch for any comics fan.