Previously-aired Aquaman shorts were repackaged into the 30-minute Aquaman, which also included the existing guest star segments from The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
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Subsequently, in 1968, the series became The Batman/Superman Hour, with new Superman/Superboy and Batman segments.
Plans were cancelled when CBS secured the animation rights to Batman in the wake of ABC's recent success with the Batman live action television series. A DC Comics cartoon hour was also being developed, with concept drawings featuring Metamorpho, Plastic Man, The Flash, The Blackhawks, the Doom Patrol, B'wana Beast and the Metal Men. The exceptions were Superman and his supporting cast, who had been previously immortalized in the iconic 1940s Superman shorts (and later in The New Adventures of Superman), and the Superboy characters, seen in the previous season of The Adventures of Superboy.ĭue to the success of the show, Filmation had produced a Metamorpho pilot and planned pilots for Plastic Man and Wonder Woman. This series marked the animation debut of nearly all of its featured characters and teams. This use of comic writers on the television series tended to make them "a very faithful adaption to the comic book mythos." Even so, there were some elements which were unique to the cartoons, such as secondary characters in the Hawkman, Green Lantern and Atom shorts. Mort Weisinger, editor of all Superman comic titles during the 1960s, served as script editor for the shorts featuring Kal-El. Bob Haney and George Kashdan - the writing-editing team who were then producing the original version of the Teen Titans comic book - were prolific on the series, taking on nearly all the "guest star" cartoons. Many of the shorts were penned and script-edited by DC Comics employees. The Justice League of America (Atom, Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Aquaman and Superman) and Teen Titans ( Speedy, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, and Aqualad, but not Robin) were also featured in team adventures. It also included a rotating series of "guest star" cartoons featuring the Atom, the Flash and Kid Flash, the Green Lantern, Hawkman and new shorts from The Adventures of Superboy. As a part of The New Adventures, it is notable for containing some of the final work done by Bud Collyer, the voice actor who had originated the roles of Superman and Clark Kent on radio. Superman fans generally regard it as the second season of The New Adventures. Each episode consisted of new segments from the existing series, The New Adventures of Superman and The Adventures of Superboy, as well as outings for Aquaman and his sidekick Aqualad.
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