“The New Adventures of Superman” Script and Storyboard
date: label: Date made
content: 1966-05-11
name: label: author
content: Bensol, Oscar
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content: Bensol, Oscar
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content: Annotated pages are from "The Neolithic Nightmare," an episode of the animated series "The New Adventures of Superman." The documents include a revised script and illustrated storyboards. Written by Oscar Bensol, the episode aired in November of 1966, and features cub-reporter Jimmy Olson falling into a cave filled with monsters.
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content: Filmation produced 68 six-minute Superman stories between 1966-1970. The shorts were aired as part of three programs "The New Adventures of Superman;" "The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure;" and "The Batman/Superman Hour."
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content: The character of Superman first flew into action in 1938. The costumed superhero was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland Ohio, who used, among other things, classical mythology and the era's popular science fiction and adventure writing for inspiration.
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content: With his debut in Action Comics #1, Superman became an instant sensation with audiences, inspired by the "Man of Tomorrow's" virtue and heroics at time when the Nation was slowly emerging from the economic catastrophe of the Great Depression and moving closer to World War.
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content: Born on the doomed planet Krypton, Superman was sent to Earth as a child, where our world's yellow sun granted him extraordinary powers such as flight, super-strength, near-invulnerability, as well as other extraordinary abilities including heat and X-Ray vision. As an adult living in the city of Metropolis, the alien, born Kal-El, protects his identity by assuming the persona of Clark Kent, a "mild-mannered" journalist.
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content: Fighting for "Truth and Justice," Superman birthed a cultural fascination with superheroes, and has become one of the most recognizable and influential fictional characters in history. In addition to comic books, the character has been explored in all forms of media, including radio, television, and film, and has been used to promote a variety of successful consumer products, educational initiatives and public service campaigns.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Superman
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content: Comics
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: DC Comics, Incorporated
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0213.179
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content: 1987.0213.179
label: accession number
content: 1987.0213
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Script Revision
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 12 1/4 in; 22.5425 cm x 31.115 cm