The death was ruled an apparent suicide, although suspicions of foul play have never fully subsided (among other reasons, he was having an affair with the wife of an MGM studio “fixer” who had ties to the mob). Reeves chafed at being typecast as the Man of Steel, and he died of a gunshot wound to the head at age 45. The actor responsible was George Reeves, who brought the Man of Steel and his alter ego, Clark Kent, to square-jawed, barrel-chested life in the long-running syndicated TV series “Adventures of Superman.”īut while Superman commanded the adoration of millions of children, the actor who played him had some secrets of his own. Fittingly, their character’s live-action incarnation became the first superhero superstar. When Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created Superman in 1938, they invented an entire genre. His genitalia is as visible as a ballet star.‘Adventures of Superman’ (1952-1958) Where to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon or YouTube One amazing detraction (depending on how you want to look at it, then this may not be for kids) is clearly Green Lantern should have wore a protective cup or something. I all but suspect one of the two Saturday morning Captain Marvels were sought for this as well. Might have been fun back then, but still enjoyable to see these earliest hero depictions. The first one I missed the previous week. I remembered the second program, the roast with Ed McMahon from back when it originally aired and I thought that was dull. It's so low-budget, you can see people across the street watching when Solomon Grundy and Black Canary interact. They could have just run around and fought one another, like wresters (I long ago determined if some sports programs like football wore costumes like superheroes, I would be spellbound). Whoever did this clearly knew the comic books as they even put in the Legion villian of Mordru as the leader, instead of the later hyped up Darkseid.īut the look of many of the performers was accurate. Someone took West, Ward and Gorshin from the campy 60s show and just made it all out comedy, with very good additions of Charlie Callas as Sinestro (with no purple makeup, Callas' face best delivered the Sinestro look), Jeff Altman as the WEather Wizard and Howard Morris as Sinestro. Earliest Screen Appearance of Many of These Characters
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