My sister was watching my Max Fleischer cartoons yesterday, and caught this:
In the cartoon called "The Electric Earthquake" we learn that Indians are bad people, but really good at science. Being of Native American descent yet good at science, I joked my sister about the fact that all Indians also travel up and down in a tube...what, she didn't have one?
Anyway, she caught this: The Indian blew up lots of building surrounding the Daily Planet, before Superman stopped the machine. At the end of the cartoon, the Daily Planet headline was "Superman saves Manhattan from an Indian." Ok, it actually says "Superman saves Manhattan" and then something else.
In one of my classes, I decided to show that cartoon as the quintessential Superman Cartoon.
It had brilliant animation, great action, sweet technology, and a politically incorrect villain. It captured the era better than any other Superman cartoon.