Illuminations by Alan Moore

Author:Alan Moore
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781635578812
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

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12. (September 2018)

‘IS IT A CLOUD? IS IT A METEOR?’ – Finefinger’s Brief History of Thunderman On-Screen (Published in Collectors’ Fugue #330)

I: The Essler Studios’ Animated Thunderman Shorts (1941–1943) *****

Let me say right from the get-go that this list is chronological rather than in order of merit, although, as it turns out, the first listing is the best, the last is the worst, and the ones in the middle are kind of middling. Thunderman’s screen exploits, a little like the progress of the Egyptian dynasties or the career of Orson Wells, start out wonderful, end up in advertisements for cheap sherry, and may well perfectly demonstrate the concept of entropy.

Although there could be cine-antiquarians out there who will disagree, while Thunderman is arguably the first superhero in print, he is certainly the first to make it to the screen. So, a study of Thunderman’s screen history is as good a way as any of understanding superhero movies as a whole, before they either wink suddenly from existence, or else continue to submerge the medium of cinema in bilge until the end of time, the way they’ve done for comics. That’s what I’m telling myself is the reason I’m wading through this junk, anyway: that there may yet be some glimmer of social significance amongst the spandex, after all. Let’s see, shall we?

It should first be pointed out that in 1941, both cartoon animation and Thunderman were relatively new ideas. Having unburdened David Kessler and Si Schuman of their most important intellectual property in 1942, the people at my former employers American Comics must have been delighted by Thunderman’s perfect suitability for a comic book business that was then in its birth throes: a strikingly colourful figure in that grey Depression landscape, that could go anywhere, do anything, and, in a visual medium, could generate unprecedented visual spectacle of a kind that the despairing and marvel-starved audience clearly couldn’t get enough of. It would hardly take a genius to realise that an endlessly kinetic character who could fly, bench-press the moon and outrun lightning might be even more successful if presented as stop-motion animation.

And so it proved to be. When American approached the Essler brothers, already making a mark with their Belinda Beep and Out of the Pencil-Sharpener animated shorts, and suggested that they make an animated Thunderman, the business-minded Bernard Essler was reluctant to take on the project. In what may have been an effort to discourage his prospective clients, Essler told them that for Thunderman to be done properly, each short would cost them $90,000, to which they immediately agreed. And so, perhaps with mixed feelings, Bernard and his brother Abe embarked upon what were to be some of the most beautiful and sumptuous works that Essler Studios ever had a hand in.

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