DVD : Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection)

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Rating:

- Justice League of DC Comics v.s Legion of Hanna Barbara
After 25 years, Challenge of the Super Friends is finally released on DVD! Saturday morning viewers may or may not recall Hanna Barbara, the creators of Scooby Doo and Yogi Bear, brought the Silver Age of DC Comics more popular exposure with their earlier version of the Super Friends saving the world from catastrophe. They had Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Dynamic Duo with Wendy, Marvin, Wonder Dog, the Wonder Twins, and Gleek?! But after those campier seasons, DC Comics may have talked privately with H.B. to make the series more accurate to DC's storylines. Therefore, H.B. came up with JLA's archrivals, The Legion of Doom, in a 16 episode clash of good v.s evil warfare. "Holy turf wars Batman!" Yes those one liners were cliche and silly. But some of those episodes had some shocking moments.
Wanted: The Super Friends - Lex Luthor uses a dream machine to make the Justice League commit crimes.
(My personal favorite) Super Friends: R.I.P. - the Justice League pay their final respects to their fallen comrade Batman.
Some of the Silver Age heroes were different from today's Justice League series. Barry Allen was the Flash. Today his nephew Wally West is the current Flash. Hal Jordan was the Green Lantern. Now it's John Stewart. (In the comics, Hal Jordan is likely to return as Green Lantern again.)
And I was really surprised this series inspired today's comic-book artists and writers. This series was meant for those who are from the 70's and watching the current series still brings back those Saturday morning moments.

Rating:

- The Best Version of the Superfriend to date
Of all the seasons of the I have to say the Challenge of The Superfriends were the best seasons to watch. No Wonder Twins, no dogs and no Wonder Marvin and Wendy..was that their names? This one has the almost complete version of the Justice League. It couldn't be called that because the word "justice" implied violence; according to a group who was against violence in cartoons.

All the classic DC villians make an appearence here. Even Jack Kirby's characters and villians from New Gods make a few episodes. I hope those in paticular come to DVD since Kirby has influenced a lot of the DC universe. The whole "Super Powers" action figure craze started by his inspired creations. I can't wait for season 2!

Rating:

- Horrible...!
This is a HORRIBLE version of the DC comics characters. The scripts, dialog, and animation are all saccharin and anemic. Your 5-7 year olds might find this fairly amusing, but it's no where NEAR the quality of the DC Comics-based animated from 1992 and later..

Seriously, this series was a wasted of celluloid and is now a waste of plastic...

Rating:

- It's about time this became available!
I am so glad they finally came out with all 16 episodes of this show. Of the incarnations of the Superfriends, this was my all-time favorite. I'm just a little disappointed that they did not release these separately from the first two releases they had. Only one question though. Why is it called the first season? Was this not the only season we saw the Legion of Doom against our superheroes?

I only wish this will be the beginning of more releases such as the same season where there were 62 episodes without the Legion of Doom. Now there's a collection one must have!

Rating:

- Meanwhile...at the Hall of Doom!
One of the best shows of all time finally gets the DVD treatment! After two piddly releases, now we get the full season. The superfriends were ok, but we all loved the Legion of Doom! Black Manta was without a doubt the coolest. Loved how his voice was masked by that vocoder...ironically a technology that Cher would incorporate into her act 20 years later! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the next release will be the Galactic Guardians where the Hall of Justice battled Darkseid.

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