Tuesday, May 20, 2025

All-New Super Friends Hour: Forbidden Power (1977)

 




This is the first segment of the twelfth episode of The All-New Super Friends Hour, unlike most other Super Friends formats, this one had hour long episodes that were made up of various shorter cartoons. The first segment would be an adventure staring two members (or three in some cases as Batman and Robin would often team with another Super Friend) of the Super Friends. The second would be a morality play staring the Wonder Twins. The third would be a typical half hour Super Friends adventure. The fourth and last segment would feature one of the main Super Friends teaming up with a special DC Comics guest star.

In this cartoon Batman and Robin team up with Wonder Woman team up to save Professor Zarkov from mutants from outer space. 

This is a fun little sci-fi episode. The outer space setting is delightful and allows the artists to be very creative. The background art is not only wonderful to look at but feels completely other worldly. The designs of the alien creatures are also excellent. They are very creative and add delightfully to the other worldly feel to this episode. The storyline is simple but there is something charming in its simplicity. There is something simply quite satisfying about watching superheroes deal with a sci-fi environment and sci-fi creatures and this episode takes full advantage of this.  

This is simply a fun little superhero adventure.


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