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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers Fabric Type: 0085393162627 Graphics Memory Size: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: Maximum Color Depth: Warner Home Video Maximum Focal Length: Metal Type: Warner Home Video Pearl Type: 085393162627 Processor Count: 4 Total Firewire Ports: Warner Home Video Total Metal Weight: 1 Total Parallel Ports: July 06, 2004 Total S Video Out Ports: 347 minutes Warner Home Video September 08, 1978 Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/07/2007 Run time: 360 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com: Challenge of the Super Friends is the ultimate animated all-star contest of good versus evil. The original Super Friends (running from 1973 to 1977--Wonder Twins and Gleek anyone??) was made up of the greatest DC Comics superheroes fighting together to uphold justice for all mankind. Overall, it was a pretty good show, but getting stale very fast. In 1978, the superhero animation bar was raised high when the first (and only) season of Challenge of the Super Friends hit the Saturday morning circuit. Immediately these 16 episodes made up the best that Super Friends had to offer for one reason alone: the creation of the Legion of Doom, banding together the 13 most sinister villains of all-time from remote galaxies. Led by the sinister genius of Lex Luthor, the Legion of Doom was dedicated to take over the universe, and only the Super Friends, led by Superman, Wonder Woman and the Dynamic Duo, dared to challenge this intergalactic threat and bring them to justice. There is no denying that animated superhero shows have come a long way since Super Friends. The Challenge of the Super Friends is very '70s in presentation, riddled with inconsistencies and drawing mistakes, and allowing heroes to fly even if they couldn't fly in the comics. However, there is no denying the staying power of the stories, its concept, the superheroes/villains pairing and its overall charm. Included in this set are a couple of nice features, particularly the superheroes/villains biographies, each with their own mini-video. There is also a good, brief documentary of today's comic book and TV show creators reflecting on their impressions of Challenge of the Super Friends and its influence on their careers. If you want to take a trip down memory lane to the Hall of Justice or the swamps of the Hall of Doom, you will not be disappointed by this set. --Rob Bracco Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - All the cheese, all the hokum, all the FUN !!!If you're in the market for a SuperFriends initiation look no further: this is the one you want, and a bargain for little more than ten dollars with Amazon third party sellers! The series preceeding and proceeding this are the episodes that felt the need to include teen-tagalongs like the Wonder Twins. "Challenge of the Superfriends" is 100% pure superheroes and canon villains, the immortal Legion of Doom and no teen upstarts stealing the spotlight. I always hated those little twerps. ... Read More Rating: - Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic CollectionA birthday present to a comic book collector who was very happy with his gift. Arrived in good shape and in a timely fashion. Rating: - "Meanwhile, At The Legion Of Doom....""Challenge Of The Super Friends" debuted when I was too young to originally watch or be aware of. Thankfully, this show, and other incarnations of it that ran from 1973-1977, were in reruns(and often partnered up with current versions)for years, so I felt like I grew up on it too, if not during most of the original airings. The show went on until 1985/86 or so, so some of it I saw originally. But this one?. This one takes the cake. Easily the best version of the long running superhero series, "Challenge" ... Read More Rating: - SuperfriendsWhile babysitting our friends' son and daughter, the topic of superheroes came up. The superheroes of today have nothing on the Superfriends we grew up watching. They spent two hours on the computer just learning about all the superfriends, the Hall of Justice, and the Legion of Doom. The boy's birthday was the next week and the choice for a present was a no-brainer. He loved it. Now he and his sister can enjoy the superheroes we all grew up watching. Rating: - Step in the Right Direction for the Super FriendsWell I finally completed my tour of the first Superfriends box set and can honestly state that this volume is seriously the equivalent of a caterpillar to butterfly metamorphosis. How so? Well it's clear that the early episodes contained residual spillover from the 1977 (and earlier) seasons in that the writers weren't quite familiar with the power of the Legion of Doom at their disposal. As such the initial episodes retain plots with very grand schemes laced with loads of space travel, black holes, inter ... Read More Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection) Buy superhero comic book collectibles at the Superhero Mall! |