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I always loved this image from the Fleisher shorts. The first comic shop I went to had a big poster of this in their window and I loved it. The Fleisher shorts were definitely way ahead of their time and simply stunning. Interesting side note about those shorts, they opened the door for dramatic animation as a serial in the US. Before that, Disney films were really the only popular animated dramas and they were feature films. Serialized shorts were more for comedy and no one really considered they could be dramatic until the Fleishers put Superman in animation. So in addition to being a founder of the comic medium, Superman had a pretty huge hand in getting animation popular in the states. We may not have our Saturday morning cartoons or animated series if the Fleishers hadn't laid the groundwork with Superman.