Animated Superman films (Film Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: Superman animated shorts, Justice League: The New Frontier, Superman: Doomsday, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, All-Star Superman, The Mechanical Monsters, The Arctic Giant, Electric Earthquake, Japoteurs, Superman: Brainiac Attacks, The Bulleteers, Volcano, Billion Dollar Limited, Showdown, The Magnetic Telescope, Destruction, Inc., Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam, Terror on the Midway. Excerpt: Justice League: The New Frontier is a 2008 direct-to-video animated film adaptation of the DC Comics limited series DC: The New Frontier. The film was written by Justice League writer Stan Berkowitz, with Darwyn Cooke, the writer and artist of The New Frontier, serving as story and visual consultant. The video has received a rating of PG-13 for violent content/images and was released on February 26, 2008. It is the second in the line of DC Universe Animated Original Movies released by Warner Premiere and Warner Bros. Animation; with the first release being Superman: Doomsday and the next release being Batman: Gotham Knight. The film made its broadcast premiere on October 18, 2008 on the Cartoon Network. The film (set from 1953-1960) begins with an unknown entity (voiced by Keith David) explaining how it has witnessed the evolution of life on Earth: This explanation is shown being written and illustrated under the title "The Last Story" by a mysterious person who then shoots himself. The film cuts to the end of the Korean War, where United States Air Force pilot Hal Jordan (voiced by David Boreanaz) and his wingman, Kyle "Ace" Morgan (voiced by John Heard), are attacked by enemy pilots not yet informed of the ceasefire. Hal is shot down in the ensuing conflict, and forced to kill a North Korean soldier after ejecting to safety. The trauma of this event leads Hal to a mental ward within a hospital for about six months. Elsewhere, at Gotham Observatory, the last survivor of the Green Martian race, J'onn J'onzz (voiced by Miguel Ferrer), is inadvertently teleported to Earth by a scientist, Dr. Saul Erdel. The shock of J'onn's appearance causes Erdel to succumb to a heart attack, though not before he apologizes for stranding the Martian. Unable to return to Mars, he disguises himself as Dr. Erdel. The following year, Superman (voiced by Kyle MacLachlan) meets Wonder Woman (voiced by Lucy Lawless) in Vietnam, where she celebrates with a group of women she rescued from pol