Best of Superman

Not a lot of "best"... not a lot of Superman either.
I guess I came into this with very high expectations after the excellent Best of Batman DVD release, but sadly this was greatly disappointing.
Whereas Batman's "best of" sourced episodes primarily from Bruce Timm's run on the character throughout the nineties and 00s, this one only features the three-episode "Superman: The Animated Series" and two episodes of "Justice League Unlimited". Which may not be a bad thing, after all, other Superman series had good runs, such as the Max Fleischer series of theatrical shorts, the 1960s "The New Adventures of Superman" series and the 1988 Ruby-Spears cartoon simply titled "Superman". Sadly, only one Fleischer short was included, only one short (less than 15 minutes) segment of "The New Adventures of Superman" was used, and nothing was included from the Ruby-Spears series.
Instead, the primary "meat" of this DVD is Super Friends, and about half the Super Friends episodes featured on this DVD set do not even feature Superman in the...

I like it.
It may not seem like much at first, but there are gems here for superman fans.
Many super friends episodes. It also has an episode from the 1966 new adventures of superman, the Fleischer series as well as the animated series.

Episodes:
Disc 1:
1. The Last Son of Krypton, Part 1
2. The Last Son of Krypton, Part 2
3. The Last Son of Krypton, Part 3
4. Superman (AKA The Mad Scientist)
5. The Chimp Who Made It Big
6. Wanted: The Super Friends
7. Terror from The Phantom Zone

DISC 2:
8. The Krypton Syndrome, Invasion of the Space Dolls, The Terror on the Titanic
9. Darkseid's Golden Trap, Part 1
10. Darkseid's Golden Trap, Part 2
11. The Seeds of Doom
12. The Death of Superman
13. For The Man Who Has Evertthing
14. The Doomsday Sanction

More like Superman and the Super Friends/JLA
More team stories here than Superman solo. All shows are represented from the 40s to the 2000s. Nice way to get a sampling without having to buy all the shows separately.

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