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Writers:
Jerry Siegel (Superman comic strip created by) and
Joe Shuster (Superman comic strip created by) ...
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Release Date:
20 November 1942 (USA) more
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Plot:
While Clark Kent is in wartime Japan, Superman becomes a saboteur. full summary | add synopsis
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OK WWII Superman cartoon more (5 total)

Cast

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Joan Alexander ... Lois Lane (voice) (uncredited)
Bud Collyer ... Clark Kent / Superman (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer ... Japanese guard / Japanese official / American reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Julian Noa ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
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Runtime:
8 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #3337)
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This film was released November 20, 1942 - three weeks *before* Pearl Harbor. It is thus not an artifact of "wartime propaganda," as some reviewers suggest, but a political warning of future US-Japanese hostilities; and it correctly implied (in Superman's choice of the shipyards as targets) that the contest between the Navies of the two nations would be primary in the conflict to come. more
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Voices: Up in the sky, look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!
Narrator: Faster than a streak of lightning! More powerful than the pounding surf! Mightier than a roaring hurricane! This amazing stranger from the planet Krypton, The Man of Steel: Superman! Possessing remarkable physical strength, Superman fights a never-ending battle for truth and justice, disguised as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter, Clark Kent.
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Follows Showdown (1942) more

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OK WWII Superman cartoon, 11 March 2005
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Author: Wayne Malin (wwaayynnee51@hotmail.com) from United States

Lois Lane and Clark Kent are in Yokohama. Why? We're never told. At 11:00 each night Clark changes into Superman and commits acts of sabotage against the Japanese. Why 11:00? We're not told. And isn't sabotage against the law? Would Superman really break the law? When it's discovered he is doing it Lois is kidnapped and posters are put up telling Superman if there is one more act of sabotage Lois will be killed. Somehow Superman misses the posters, commits an act of sabotage and is buried under a pile of steel bars. Lois is immediately bought out to be shot to death. Will Superman escape, find out and save her?

As you can see this story is slap-dash with no explanations for many events (including the title). The racism against the Japanese is in here--but it was done during WWII. What bothered me was Superman committing sabotage--and this was seen as a good thing! For that alone this cartoon is interesting. I give it a 6.

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