House ad for DC television and stage productions, printed in Swing with Scooter #1 (June-July 1966)
Sadly Batman did not fight Blockbuster on his 1966-1968 TV series, but can you spot another thing that didn't happen in this ad? Well, take a look at the bottom bar in that ad, promising animated Saturday morning cartoon versions of Wonder Woman, the Flash, Plastic Man and Metamorpho. While Aquaman did go on the air, the others never made it past the pitch stage. Here, along with some dandy Aquaman and Atom model art, is Filmation producer Lou Scheimer talking about it in his book Creating the Filmation Generation:
But if we don't have mid-1960s animated versions of Plastic Man, Wonder Woman and Metamorpho, we at least have all the other great, crazy, retro stuff. Here's a sample of each!:
Batman episode "Surf's Up, Joker's Under" (November 16/, 1967), starring Adam West, Burt Ward, Alan Napier, Neil Hamilton, Stafford Repp, Yvonne Craig and Cesar Romero
Opening titles to The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958), starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, and Jack Larson
The New Adventures of Superman episode "The Malevolent Mummy" (1967), starring the voices of Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, and Jack Grimes
The Adventures of Superboy episode "Forget Me Not, Superdog" (1968), starring the voices of Bob Hastings, Janet Waldo, and Ted Knight
from It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (1975 television production of the 1966 musical), starring David Wilson and Lesley Ann Warren
Aquaman episode "The Rampaging Reptile-Men" from The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967), starring the voices of Marvin Miller, Jerry Dexter, and Ted Knight
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That Power Records album is exactly what I thought of after seeing the heroes listed in that bottom-of-ad banner. It may just be coincidence — especially since Aquaman and The Flash did make it into the Filmation series — but that LP featured those very five characters. (I also have a 45 with just the Aquaman and Flash stories.) Of course "radio"/record scripts are completely different from animated-TV scripts but I couldn't help wondering if the plots were left over from the Filmation days and were repurposed for the album.
I still get the Plastic Man and Metamorpho theme songs popping into my head, by the way; the Justice League roll-call song less often.
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