

They were both being used in either movie or television format at the time. The show included most of the major DC characters, but Wonder Woman and Superman couldn't join the party. In the second episode, The Roast, the superheroes pay tribute to Batman and Robin in the form of a roast which even the villians attend.

In the first episode, The Challenge, the superheroes must race against time to stop the diabolical supervillians' plot to destroy the world. The adventures of many of DC Comics greatest superheroes and villians. His genitalia is as visible as a ballet star.This made for TV movie re-united many cast members from the ultra-campy 60s Batman television show! They were two one hour specials brought to television by Hanna-Barbera. One amazing detraction (depending on how you want to look at it, then this may not be for kids) is clearly Green Lantern should have wore a protective cup or something. I all but suspect one of the two Saturday morning Captain Marvels were sought for this as well. Might have been fun back then, but still enjoyable to see these earliest hero depictions. The first one I missed the previous week. I remembered the second program, the roast with Ed McMahon from back when it originally aired and I thought that was dull.

It's so low-budget, you can see people across the street watching when Solomon Grundy and Blac k Canary interact.

They could have just run around and fought one another, like wresters (I long ago determined if some sports programs like football wore costumes like superheroes, I would be spellbound). Whoever did this clearly knew the comic books as they even put in the Legion villian of Mordru as the leader, instead of the later hyped up Darkseid.īut the look of many of the performers was accurate. Someone took West, Ward and Gorshin from the campy 60s show and just made it all out comedy, with very good additions of Charlie Callas as Sinestro (with no purple makeup, Callas' face best delivered the Sinestro look), Jeff Altman as the WEather Wizard and Howard Morris as Sinestro. Earliest Screen Appearance of Many of These Characters
