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8 cartoons tagged Superman (Famous Studios)

Jungle Drums

26 Mar 1943 00:08:00

In an African jungle a tribe of warriors, drawn as the crudest caricatures, celebrates around a temple that is secretly a Nazi outpost, their leader a German commander in a mask.

Destruction Inc.

25 Dec 1942 00:09:00

The night watchman of the Metropolis Munitions Works is found dead in a swamp. Lois Lane goes undercover as a factory worker and meets the new watchman, a mild old man; Clark, meanwhile, is talking to a bus driver called Louis under the impression that he is Lois. Lois overhears the supervisor, Mr.

Showdown

16 Oct 1942 00:09:00

A crook working for a gangster called the Boss has been committing robberies dressed as Superman, and every paper in the city says Superman has gone bad. Lois does not believe it.

The Mummy Strikes

19 Feb 1943 00:08:00

At the Metropolis Museum the Egyptologist Dr. Jordan is found dead before the sarcophagus of the boy-king Tush, a syringe of poison by his hand. His assistant Jane Hogan, who removed the syringe, is convicted of his murder. Days later Dr.

Eleventh Hour

20 Nov 1942 00:08:00

Clark Kent and Lois Lane are held under house arrest in Yokohama as prisoners of war. Every night, as the clock strikes eleven, Superman slips out through the barred window of Clark's room, sinks a warship or drops a bridge, and climbs back in, replacing the grille behind him.

The Underground World

18 Jun 1943 00:08:00

The explorer Dr. Henderson offers Perry White exclusive rights to the story if the Daily Planet will help finance an expedition into the Henderson caves, where his father vanished forty years earlier. The caverns are a river system, so Lois and Henderson go in by boat with Clark following.

Secret Agent

30 Jul 1943 00:07:00

Stopping at a drugstore, Clark Kent sees gunmen chasing another car. Theirs crashes into the store, they steal his, and he clings to the back as it speeds off; he throws one gangster's gun away but they shoot out their quarry's tyres, escape, and drag Clark before their chief.

Japoteurs

18 Sep 1942 00:09:00

A new giant bomber is about to make its first flight. Japanese spies, drawn in the full racial caricature of the war years, knock out the night guards, hide in empty bomb casings and emerge in the air to seize the plane and turn it toward Tokyo.