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Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection) DVD
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0085393162627
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 347 minutes
Sales Rank: 21070
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1978
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/07/2007 Run time: 360 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
Challenge of the Super Friends is the ultimate animated all-star contest of good versus evil. The original Super Friends (running from 1973 to 1977--Wonder Twins and Gleek anyone??) was made up of the greatest DC Comics superheroes fighting together to uphold justice for all mankind. Overall, it was a pretty good show, but getting stale very fast. In 1978, the superhero animation bar was raised high when the first (and only) season of Challenge of the Super Friends hit the Saturday morning circuit. Immediately these 16 episodes made up the best that Super Friends had to offer for one reason alone: the creation of the Legion of Doom, banding together the 13 most sinister villains of all-time from remote galaxies. Led by the sinister genius of Lex Luthor, the Legion of Doom was dedicated to take over the universe, and only the Super Friends, led by Superman, Wonder Woman and the Dynamic Duo, dared to challenge this intergalactic threat and bring them to justice.
There is no denying that animated superhero shows have come a long way since Super Friends. The Challenge of the Super Friends is very '70s in presentation, riddled with inconsistencies and drawing mistakes, and allowing heroes to fly even if they couldn't fly in the comics. However, there is no denying the staying power of the stories, its concept, the superheroes/villains pairing and its overall charm. Included in this set are a couple of nice features, particularly the superheroes/villains biographies, each with their own mini-video. There is also a good, brief documentary of today's comic book and TV show creators reflecting on their impressions of Challenge of the Super Friends and its influence on their careers. If you want to take a trip down memory lane to the Hall of Justice or the swamps of the Hall of Doom, you will not be disappointed by this set. --Rob Bracco
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- Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic CollectionA birthday present to a comic book collector who was very happy with his gift. Arrived in good shape and in a timely fashion.
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- "Meanwhile, At The Legion Of Doom....""Challenge Of The Super Friends" debuted when I was too young to originally watch or be aware of. Thankfully, this show, and other incarnations of it that ran from 1973-1977, were in reruns(and often partnered up with current versions)for years, so I felt like I grew up on it too, if not during most of the original airings. The show went on until 1985/86 or so, so some of it I saw originally. But this one?. This one takes the cake. Easily the best version of the long running superhero series, "Challenge" ... Read More
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- SuperfriendsWhile babysitting our friends' son and daughter, the topic of superheroes came up. The superheroes of today have nothing on the Superfriends we grew up watching. They spent two hours on the computer just learning about all the superfriends, the Hall of Justice, and the Legion of Doom. The boy's birthday was the next week and the choice for a present was a no-brainer. He loved it. Now he and his sister can enjoy the superheroes we all grew up watching.
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- Actually one of the weaker entries in the Super Powers series...Don't get me wrong...seeing the Legion of Doom out there in the swamp is a hoot and a holler. I am a product of the 70's, and it does bring back memories. But, other than the actual physical appearances of Sinestro, Braniac (nice retro look) and the like, the writers of this show obviously had no grasp or love for the DC mythology. There are too many inconsistencies to delve into, such as Flash flying, and teleporting and/or time-traveling heroes and villains. Let's not forget the awful, sloppy artwork ... Read More
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- Step in the Right Direction for the Super FriendsWell I finally completed my tour of the first Superfriends box set and can honestly state that this volume is seriously the equivalent of a caterpillar to butterfly metamorphosis. How so? Well it's clear that the early episodes contained residual spillover from the 1977 (and earlier) seasons in that the writers weren't quite familiar with the power of the Legion of Doom at their disposal. As such the initial episodes retain plots with very grand schemes laced with loads of space travel, black holes, inter ... Read More
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