Ruby Spears Superman Episodes

Each episode ends with a short vignette about key events from kal el s youth on earth.

Ruby spears superman episodes.

As a child in the 1970 s i grew up watching reeuns of the 1950 s george reeves series years before christopher reeve donned the cape. The man of steel fights evil in the city of metropolis and beyond. As part of the superman 50th anniversary celebration ruby spears created a new animated superman series. It ran on the american network cbs on saturday mornings.

The series is the first one to be based in the post crisis on infinite crisis universe created by dc comics. Each show featured an 18 minute superman adventure and a superman s family album short this new superman series brought back a few familiar foes along with new unfriendly faces for weekly battles and a peek into the private life of the man with the s on his chest. 13 episodes of the ruby spears superman were created with each of them ending with a look back at superman as an infant. And yet while i was watching gi joe and transformers in the 80 s somehow i completely missed this ruby spears production of superman in 1988 never knowing that it exited prior to now.

Veteran comic book writer marv wolfman was the head story editor and comic book. Superman is a 1988 american animated saturday morning television series produced by ruby spears enterprises for warner bros. With beau weaver ginny mcswain mark l. Produced by ruby spears the show aired saturday mornings on the cbs television network in 1988.

Disguised as clark kent a mild mannered newspaper reporter superman uses his powers to overcome the forces of evil in a tireless crusade against crime and injustice. Television that aired on cbs featuring the dc comics superhero of the same name coinciding with the character s 50th anniversary along with the live action superboy tv series that year.