Superman is a 1988 american animated saturday morning television series produced by ruby spears enterprises for warner bros television that aired on cbs featuring the dc comics superhero of the same name veteran comic book writer marv wolfman was the head story editor and comic book artist gil kane provided character designs. Adventures of superman is an american television series based on comic book characters and concepts that jerry siegel and joe shuster created in 1938 the show was the first television series to feature superman and began filming in 1951 in california on rko pathe stages and the rko forty acres back lot cereal manufacturer kelloggs sponsored the show the first and last airdates of the show which was produced for first run syndication rather than for a network are disputed but they are . The original superman on television bifulco michael j michael bifulco has created an extraordinary book reflecting the iconoclastic television show of the 1950s the adventures of superman starring the late ge reeves noel neill jack larson the late john hamilton and the late robert shayne superman 12 actors who played the man of steel on tv the first star to play superman in a television