"Ruby-Spears Superman" DVD Collection Arriving November 3rd, 2009

[James Harvey]

Warner Home Video just sent The WF DVD Report the following press release, as seen below.

SUPERMAN SOARS INTO STORES WITH WARNER HOME VIDEO’S DVD RELEASE OF
RUBY-SPEARS SUPERMAN ON NOVEMBER 3, 2009!

At Last All 13 Ruby-Spears Episodes Are Released On DVD Over 20 Years Later

As a 50th anniversary gift to fans, DC Comics’ Man of Steel was given a brand-new Saturday morning cartoon in 1988. Now, fans of all ages can finally join the celebration when Warner Home Video (WHV) and DC Comics release Ruby-Spears Superman, a 2-disc collection of cartoons from the Warner Bros. vault, on November 3, 2009 for $26.99 SRP. Order due date is September 29, 2009.

Debuting in 1988, the Ruby-Spears Superman series brought back some familiar foes and new unfriendly faces for battles against our favorite hero. In addition to the thrills of Superman’s weekly adventures, each episode also includes a mini-segment – a continuing series called Superman Family Album. These featurettes tell the real story of what it was like to grow up as the most powerful boy in Smallville. Watch young Clark Kent deal with not only the normal trials and tribulations of youth and adolescence, but learn to balance them with his newfound super powers.

Ruby-Spears Productions was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Ruby and Spears started as sound editors at Hanna-Barbera, branched out into writing, and eventually went on to create “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” In total, Ruby-Spears Productions produced 36 different TV series including the hit, “Alvin and the Chipmunks.”

“These celebratory episodes not only take fans through the expected, yet exhilarating, adventures of Superman, but they share the untold story of his youth,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation & Sports Marketing. “Warner Home Video is absolutely thrilled to release Ruby-Spears Superman just in time for the holiday season.”

Ruby-Spears Superman will include the special feature:

-Corruption of the Corrupt: The Rise of LexCorp:
A fascinating glimpse into the Decade of Greed, when Americans were growing more and more distrustful of corporate leadership. From the headlines of the day to the pages of Superman arose a new vision of an old villain, Lex Luthor and his conglomerate, LexCorp.

Episodes:
Disc One
Destroy The Defendroids/ The Adoption
Fugitive From Space/ The Supermarket
By The Skin of the Dragon’s Teeth/At The Babysitter’s
Cybron Strikes/ The First Day of School
The Big Scoop/ Overnight with the Scouts
Triple-Play/ The Circus
The Hunter/ Little Runaway

Disc Two
Superman and Wonder Woman vs. The Sorcerer of Time/ The Birthday Party
Bonechill/ The Driver’s License
The Beast Beneath These Streets/ First Date
Wildshark/ To Play or Not to Play
Night of the Living Shadows/ Graduation
The Last Time I Saw Earth/ It’s Superman

Basics:
Street Date: November 3, 2009
Order Due Date: September 29, 2009
Languages: English
Runtime Main: 286 Minutes
Runtime EC Features: Approx. 20 Minutes
MPAA Rating: NR

Ruby-Spears Superman
Price: $26.99SRP / No MAP
UPC: 1000092478

About Warner Home Video
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, a division of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.


About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD, and delivery of theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles

About DC Comics:
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC Super Heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics’ Web site is located at www.dccomics.com.

SUPERMAN, WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.(s09)

Comments?

[Russkafin]

Nice!! A lot of fans have been hoping for this release on DVD for a long time. I remember it fondly from my youth.

Now if we can just get them to finish releasing the live action Superboy series....!

[DarkKnight]

Hooray! First Plastic Man, and now this!

[SF4Ever]

Originally Posted by James Harvey

Warner Home Video just sent The WF DVD Report the following press release, as seen below.

SUPERMAN SOARS INTO STORES WITH WARNER HOME VIDEO’S DVD RELEASE OF

RUBY-SPEARS SUPERMAN ON NOVEMBER 3, 2009!

At Last All 13 Ruby-Spears Episodes Are Released On DVD Over 20 Years Later

As a 50th anniversary gift to fans, DC Comics’ Man of Steel was given a brand-new Saturday morning cartoon in 1988. Now, fans of all ages can finally join the celebration when Warner Home Video (WHV) and DC Comics release Ruby-Spears Superman, a 2-disc collection of cartoons from the Warner Bros. vault, on November 3, 2009 for $26.99 SRP. Order due date is September 29, 2009.

Debuting in 1988, the Ruby-Spears Superman series brought back some familiar foes and new unfriendly faces for battles against our favorite hero. In addition to the thrills of Superman’s weekly adventures, each episode also includes a mini-segment – a continuing series called Superman Family Album. These featurettes tell the real story of what it was like to grow up as the most powerful boy in Smallville. Watch young Clark Kent deal with not only the normal trials and tribulations of youth and adolescence, but learn to balance them with his newfound super powers.

Ruby-Spears Productions was founded in 1977 by veteran writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Ruby and Spears started as sound editors at Hanna-Barbera, branched out into writing, and eventually went on to create “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” In total, Ruby-Spears Productions produced 36 different TV series including the hit, “Alvin and the Chipmunks.”

“These celebratory episodes not only take fans through the expected, yet exhilarating, adventures of Superman, but they share the untold story of his youth,” said Amit Desai, WHV Vice President of Family, Animation & Sports Marketing. “Warner Home Video is absolutely thrilled to release Ruby-Spears Superman just in time for the holiday season.”

Ruby-Spears Superman will include the special feature:

-Corruption of the Corrupt: The Rise of LexCorp:
A fascinating glimpse into the Decade of Greed, when Americans were growing more and more distrustful of corporate leadership. From the headlines of the day to the pages of Superman arose a new vision of an old villain, Lex Luthor and his conglomerate, LexCorp.

Episodes:
Disc One
Destroy The Defendroids/ The Adoption
Fugitive From Space/ The Supermarket
By The Skin of the Dragon’s Teeth/At The Babysitter’s
Cybron Strikes/ The First Day of School
The Big Scoop/ Overnight with the Scouts
Triple-Play/ The Circus
The Hunter/ Little Runaway

Disc Two
Superman and Wonder Woman vs. The Sorcerer of Time/ The Birthday Party
Bonechill/ The Driver’s License
The Beast Beneath These Streets/ First Date
Wildshark/ To Play or Not to Play
Night of the Living Shadows/ Graduation
The Last Time I Saw Earth/ It’s Superman

Basics:
Street Date: November 3, 2009
Order Due Date: September 29, 2009
Languages: English
Runtime Main: 286 Minutes
Runtime EC Features: Approx. 20 Minutes
MPAA Rating: NR

Ruby-Spears Superman
Price: $26.99SRP / No MAP
UPC: 1000092478

About Warner Home Video
With operations in 90 international territories, Warner Home Video, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, a division of the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group, commands the largest distribution infrastructure in the global video marketplace. Warner Home Video's film library is the largest of any studio, offering top quality new and vintage titles from the repertoires of Warner Bros. Pictures, Turner Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, HBO Home Video and New Line Home Entertainment.


About Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group brings together Warner Bros. Entertainment's home video, digital distribution, interactive entertainment/videogames, direct-to-DVD production, technical operations and anti-piracy businesses in order to maximize current and next-generation distribution scenarios. WBHEG is responsible for the global distribution of content through DVD, electronic sell-through and VOD, and delivery of theatrical content to wireless and online channels, and is also a significant worldwide publisher for both internal and third party videogame titles

About DC Comics:
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman. These DC Super Heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies, television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace, thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics’ Web site is located at www.dccomics.com.

SUPERMAN, WONDER WOMAN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © DC Comics.(s09)

Comments?

Thanks for the information, James. I like it, so far- Ruby-Spears' Plastic Man is now out on DVD, Hanna-Barbera's The Superfriends' Lost Episodes will be out on DVD, soon, and now Ruby-Spears' Superman series will come out on DVD, this fall. I can't wait until Filmation's animated Shazam series comes out on DVD. This will be good to add to my DVD collection.

[hobbyfan]

Sweet!

Now, would it be asking too much to have the '88 series added to the Boomerang lineup in time for the DVD release?

[veemonjosh]

Wow, and I thought they had completely forgotten about this series!

I've actually been interested in seeing this show (being the only solo-Superman cartoon that wasn't theatrical or DCAU), so it's good to finally see it!

[Jack_6428]

For gods sake, you have to be [deleted] kidding me...
Even old R-S Superman gets released, but their most famous series, "The Centurions", doesn't? For crying out loud Warner, give us Centurions...im waiting like forever...and not just me...i want PowerXtreme on DVD!!!!!

Mod Note: Watch the language. Even without typing all the letter, it was obvious to make out what you wanted to say. Please watch it in the future.

[Rick Jones]

I think I'm feeling a little faint. It's too good to be true.

[Ultraman]

I never knew about this. A lot of positive... interesting.

Here's the art cover from DVDactive:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...-superman.html

[Rick Jones]

It looks like a perfect homage to the page where he debuts as Superman in John Byrne's Man Of Steel mini-series.

[Bat-Fan Beyond]

This is awesome news!

Hopefully Warner Brothers will release another Ruby-Spears favorite, THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN, soon.

[Optimus81]

Finally!! I was thrilled to hear this today! Great news! I figured WHV wouled eventually get to this series, since it seemed like they wanted to get through Superfriends first, and nice to see they are finally going through with it. I will be picking this up in November, no doubt!

[dth1971]

Beau Weaver was okay at voicing Superman in 1988!

[Robin2099]

Great news, even though I wish they had a featurette about the cartoon instead of something that should be on a Wall Street DVD.

[dmxx116]

Originally Posted by dth1971

Beau Weaver was okay at voicing Superman in 1988!

Ture but he no Tim Daly or George Newbern when it come to Superman.

Take a look at the DVD cover

[Kenny E. McCall]

I am definitely getting that, Plastic Man, and Superfriends: the Lost Episodes real soon.

[BigFatHairyDeal]

Excellent. In a lot of ways, this was my favorite Superman series. I have recordings of all these episodes, but they're terrible quality. Would be nice to replace them.

[Tobias]

I haven't seen this show since it's original airings. The show was good, but it was a victim of CBS's bad scheduling. They put Superman against the first season of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and whatever was on NBC at the time, which might have been either Gummi Bears or The Smurfs.

[Steven C]

Yes!!!! Finally!!

[Mandouga]

Originally Posted by veemonjosh

Wow, and I thought they had completely forgotten about this series!

I've actually been interested in seeing this show (being the "only" solo-Superman cartoon that wasn't theatrical or DCAU), so it's good to finally see it!

(quoted for emphasis)

There was one other one: Filmation's "The New Adventures of Superman" (the first season of which is now on DVD).