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Jan 23, 2023 at 16:41 comment added Kenster @Covertwalrus The 1941 Fleischer Studios theatrical cartoon series is credited for the idea that Superman can fly. They tried animating him leaping from place to place and it looked silly. The book publisher apparently transitioned him from leaping to flying around the same time to align the comic books with the cartoons.
Jan 22, 2023 at 19:29 comment added Clockwork Related: scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/10578/…
Jan 22, 2023 at 18:46 answer added FuzzyBoots timeline score: 5
Jan 22, 2023 at 18:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackSciFi/status/1617220560588607488
Jan 22, 2023 at 11:52 comment added releseabe @Covertwalrus: That deserves to be its own question, I think. An interesting idea that the radio serial affected the comics book. Of course, leaping hundreds of feet would be a pretty fast mode of travel, back of the envelope calc suggests at least a mile a second in that way although the damage he would cause on landing...
Jan 22, 2023 at 11:50 comment added Covertwalrus Am I right in thinking the flying came about on the radio serial first, to allow fast travel, and was then adopted to the comics?
Jan 22, 2023 at 11:41 comment added FuzzyBoots Useful reference, quora.com/…
Jan 22, 2023 at 10:55 history edited TheLethalCarrot
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Jan 22, 2023 at 10:34 history asked releseabe CC BY-SA 4.0