Illustrated sleeve featuring Superman, Flash Gordon, Green Hornet’s Black Beauty, Mandrake the Magician, The Shadow and The Lone Ranger. Original transcription disks were 16″ and were pressed at 16-2/3 RPM records, a speed used almost exclusively for spoken word content, particularly the “talking books” used by the visually impaired. For this reason, the inclusion of this speed was required on phonographs in some countries for many years.
Tag: Superman
Are You Ready For Some Football?
All mythical football team by Burris Jenkins Jr. 1940
From Superman to Doctor Satan
Small blurb in the Motion Picture Herald about Republic releasing a Superman serial (June 1, 1940)
This Is Not Him
My mother saved this from the Tulsa World in the early 80’s. It was by the late political cartoonist, Doug Marlette.
You’re The Hero…
1966 Woolworth’s Halloween Advertisement, featuring Batman, Superman, Green Hornet, Zorro, and the Universal movie monsters.
See Superman In Color, 1939
Beginning next Sunday, the amazing exploits of SUPERMAN will be featured in color in the Adventure Section of the Sunday Post-Dispatch.
This super-hero flies faster than an airplane… he can outswim a speed boat and leap over sky-scrapers. He smashes steel like putty and runs faster than a speeding express train. Enlisted on the side of justice, he crusades constantly against the forces of evil.
For a Thrill Every Sunday, Follow SUPERMAN’S Adventures
IN THE SUNDAY
POST-DISPATCH
STARTING NEXT SUNDAY
Superman turns 80
1st appearance of Jerry Siegel’s and Joe Shuster’s Superman… smashing a 1937 DeSoto
