365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 173: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 7: Welcome back to that same old place that you laughed about

House ad for the DC TV Comics: Shazam!; Isis; Welcome Back, Kotter; and Super Friends, printed in Secret Society of Super-Villains #3 (September-October 1976)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 172: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 6: He didn't mention that it stood for "hope"

Ad for Sesame Street (premiered on November 10, 1969); printed in House of Mystery* #183 (November-December 1969)






*I know! Ironic, isn't it?

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 171: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 5: Well, that didn't happen

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

And even tho' Metamorpho, one of my fave DC characters, never made it to TV animation in the 1960s (but he appeared in Justice League and Batman: The Brave and the Bold in the 2000s), here's the song (from a Power Records story album), that shoulda been the theme song for his cartoon:

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 170: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 4: Some days you just can't get rid of a meme

House ad for the Batman comic strip and Batman movie (August 1967), printed in Detective Comics #356 (October 1966)


[British or Canadian?] ad for the Batman movie (1966)

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 169: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 3: Superman found a letter you wrote me / On the radio

Tonight: The Superman Radio Theatre...is on the air! With a whole Luthor-sized treasure-chest of house ads for The Adventures of Superman radio show!


Superman radio show ad from Superman #7 (November-December 1940). I'm 'specially fond on this one as it mentions WFBL, the radio station I grew up listening to! And they had the CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, too!


from Superman #7 (November-December 1940)

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365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 168: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 2: You will believe a man can Fleischer

House ad for the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Superman cartoon series (1941-1943), printed in World's Finest Comics #7 (Autumn 1942), pencils and inks by Fred Ray. This image has been stitched together from two different sources in an attempt to provide a cleaner, fuller image.


House ad in Superman #19 (November-December 1942), pencils and inks by Fred Ray.


House ad in Superman #16 (May-June 1942)


Theatre lobby card for the Fleischer and Famous Superman cartoon series (1941-1943)
Here's some of the title cards for the Fleischer/Famous Superman cartoons. To amuse you and to eat up my bandwidth, I've turned some of them into animated gifs!












Hey, did you notice the "Superman" logo on the title card?



It's similar to, but at the same time dramatically different than, the logo used on the comic books of that period:



It's from a different angle, and note the rounded corners of some of the letters. In fact, the Superman comic book would not introduce a rounded letter "U" until Superman #386...in 1983!



So, what are you waiting for? Go watch a Fleischer Brothers or Famous Studios Superman cartoon right now! And sing along with me to the words of the Superman Theme Song!:

Superman, Superman
Superman, Superman, Superman!
Superman, Superman
Superman, Superman, Superman!
Da da da da da da
Dahhhhhhhhh
Da da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da da!
Superman, Superman
Superman, Superman, Superman
Superman, Superman, Superman!


Oh, the heck with it...why not watch all of them?

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 167: DC Radio/TV/Movie Comics House Ads Week, Day 1: You will believe a man can be advertised

All this week: house ads for DC characters on TV, radio, and in the movies, and the comics based on them! First up: a little something for not only everybody who people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story, but also those who can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe! Also, for everybody in Costa Del Lex, Luthorville, Marina del Lex, and Otisburg....Otisburg?!?


House ad for Superman comics and Superman: The Movie (1978); printed in Batman #311 (May 1979)


Warner Brothers house ad for Superman: The Movie (1978)