Best super hero cartoon?

[fallensaviour]

SuperFriends 70's
Filmation Batman 60's & 70's
I also liked the hulk

[mitchedwards]

Batman Brave ad the Bold for me

[kryptosmaster]

I like the 60's Superman & Superboy cartoons.
The short-lived late 80's Superman one was pretty faithful to the comics at the time as well.
Rich

[aquatroy]

Just a little love for the short lived Marvel Action Hour of the 90's. I didn't like the Iron Man or Hulk toons, but the Fantastic Four was very good. Nice retellings of classic FF stories.

[filmation batman fan]

I can't choose one. That would be impossible.

But for modern cartoons, I choose Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited. Superman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond are great shows, but didn't have the same impact as the other two. prefer these four shows together. Soi for modern, I say the Bruce Timmverse.


For classics, I have to go with the SuperFriends and the my personal favorite, hence my handle name, The New Adventures of Batman by Filmation 1977. Somebody's gotta vote for that show and it may as well be me.

Cheers.

[Werewolf]

I liked the last season of Hanna Barbara's Super Powers. Loved the art style.

[thunderbolt]

For me its the Timm Batman/Superman/JLU trinity. Original stories that were not carbon copied from books I had just read the year before with characters faithful to the comic versions with a unique artistic style. close seconds would be the Fleischer Superman and Space Ghost.

[wayne foundation 07]

For me its gotta be Blue Falcon.I loved the Hanna Barbara take on the super hero.Heavy Scooby Doo influence helps too.

[StrangeVisitor]

I'll add the Tick as well.

Certainly the funniest super-hero cartoon! In my Top Ten funniest TV Shows right beside Seinfeld and Arrested Development.

But for Best Cartoon, it's gotta be Batman:TAS. I certainly have affection for the whole Timmverse but later shows had so many characters to juggle there was less time to get inside their hearts & heads.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I picked JLU over BTAS because BTAS did suffer from some early interference from folks who didn't get what Timm and co. wanted to do. They weeded them out quickly, but for every truly classic episode, you'd get a "I've Got Batman in My Basement". By the time Timm got to JLU, he'd worked out all the kinks, and there is not a clunker in the bunch of the 3 seasons of JLU. Well, except maybe the Hawk and Dove one. It didn't really work too well.

The 88 Superman toon was very good for it's time, and a natural extension for where Super Powers was headed, and where BTAS would take off.

I have a hard time watching the 90s Spidey and X-Men cartoons now. The melodrama was over-the-top, and the pacing (esp. on Spider-Man) could send you into seizures. The X-Men toon's use of heavy black shadows didn't work in animation. It looked like living black blobs had attached themselves to everyone. I like the new toon better.

I still have a soft spot for any version of Super Friends (not so much season 1, though) and the Filmation stuff captured the 60s DC feel well. Spidey 67 was great in season 1, and really captured the Lee/Ditko/Romita vibe. The later stuff was just...weird. Acid trip captured on celluloid with Spidey thrown in. The HB FF cartoon is surprisingly good. I had never seen it until we got Boomerang a few years back.

For sheer artistry and visual achievement, no one has topped the Fleischer Superman shorts yet. And I doubt they ever will.




Chris

[kingdom warrior]

Fleischer Superman
Mighty Mouse
Spiderman 67
The Marvel Superheros 60's
BTAS
JLU

[huedell]

Anyone'll have a hard time convincing me there ever was or will BE
a better superhero cartoon than JLU

[vintage spideyfan]

The Fleischer Superman cartoons will always be very special to me just because they are the first I remember.

In my opinion, the best yet has been "Batman TAS". I really didn't care for the look and animation style initially, but it has since grown on me. I think the 90's Superman was done really well also. Good stories. Simple, yet sleek animation.

The 1960's Spidey series will always be a favorite. Not really a fan of "Spidey and his Amazing friends" or any of the 90's Marvel cartoons. Someone mentioned the pacing in the Spider-Man series, I don't think that could be anymore true. That and the really low quality (even for that time), computer animation just made it a bust for me.

As far as current animated super-hero mediums, I find myself quicly becomming addicted to "Batman: The Brave and the Bold". I also find the "Spectacular Spider-Man" series to be very well written.

[Mego Milk]

Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends!

[madmarva]

As a kid I really enjoyed the Filmation Tarzan cartoon.

Batman TAS, JL and JLU and Superman TAS handle the characters better than the comics do on a regular basis.

The 1988 Superman TV series was fun, particularly the back-up series.

The Tick and Mighty Mouse were also great.

The Hulk series wasn't bad in the 1990s

Final Frontier and the Wonder Woman DVDs were excellent and I'm eagerly awaiting Green Lantern this July.