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February 5, 2014: "The New Adventures of Superman - Seasons 2 and 3" on DVD

Warner Home Video has announced that they will be releasing Seasons 2 and 3 of "The New Adventures of Superman" cartoons from Filmation on June 3, 2014.

Back in 2007 WHV released Season 1 on DVD, minus the Superboy and Krypto segments of the original TV material. Sadly, once again, the Superboy segments of Seasons 2 and 3 are also missing from this "The New Adventures of Superman - Seasons 2 and 3" DVD release.

Season 2 was known as "The Superman-Aquaman Hour of Adventure" and saw Superman share adventures with other DC Comics heroes. Season 3 was titled "The Batman-Superman Hour" and saw the show format change again in 1968, running until September 6, 1969 when the show was cancelled partly from protests by Action For Children's Television because of violent content.

The second and third seasons each had eight more "episodes" made, with a Superboy segment in the middle. In the third season the artwork changed to imitate Superman artist Curt Swan's style, and the Superman episodes became 2-part adventures.

From the 1940s radio show returned actors Clayton "Bud" Collyer as Superman/Clark Kent and Joan Alexander as Lois Lane, with Jackson Beck as narrator. The director of the cartoons was Hal Sutherland.

Here's the complete list of 32 episodes set to be included in the "The New Adventures of Superman - Seasons 2 and 3" DVD collection.

Disc 1: Season 2