The store could probably make money selling Superman cartoons, he said, but that is not a reason to stock them.

In mid-1943, Famous dropped the expensive Superman cartoons and began producing all of their output, including the Popeye series, in Technicolor.

Paramount also discontinued the expensive Superman cartoons in 1943.

The cartoon opens in a manner parodying that of the 1940s Superman cartoons.

The expensive Superman cartoons, having lost their novelty value with exhibitors, ended production in 1943, a year after Famous' inception.

A standalone set of the Superman cartoons was released in 2009.

You can get the Superman cartoons on video," said Laurie Cearley, the series curator, "but in the commercial world, you never see them.

Fleischer Studios presented the origin in the first of the Superman animated cartoons.

In the Fortress of Solitude various items can be seen from past Superman cartoons.

Originally, he only had the power to jump great distances, as stated by the 1940s Superman cartoons ("Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound").