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1940s Superhero Movies

Public list by WPS with 11 movies or TV shows/series

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Batman(1943)

3.2/5 (with 30 votes)

Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.

Captain America(1944)

2.8/5 (with 12 votes)

Superhero Captain America battles the evil forces of the archvillain called The Scarab, who poisons his enemies and steals a secret device capable of destroying buildings by sound vibrations.

Superman(1948)

NR
| 4h 4min | Action, Crime, Science Fiction
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Superman comes to Earth as a child and grows up to be his home's first superhero with his first major challenge being to oppose The Spider Lady.

Superman: Japoteurs(1942)

9min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.

Directed by Seymour Kneitel - With Bud Collyer

Batman and Robin(1949)

2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

This 15-chapter serial pits Batman and Robin against The Wizard, who uses a device that allows him to control machinery to hold the city hostage.

The Spider Returns(1941)

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Warren Hull

Hop Harrigan: America's Ace of the Airways(1946)

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Hop Harrigan, a top Air Corps pilot, leaves the military and he and his mechanic, Tank Tinker, open up a small charter air service. They are hired to fly an inventor, Dr. Tabor, to his secret laboratory, where he is working on a new and powerful energy machine. However, a mysterious villain named The Chief Pilot is determined to have the new energy machine for his own purposes and kidnaps Dr. Tabor.

Congo Bill(1948)

NR
| 4h 30min | Action, Adventure
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Congo Bill is hired to locate an heiress lost somewhere in Africa.

The Phantom(1943)

NR
| 4h 59min | Action
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Two expeditions are trying to reach the Lost City of Zoloz -- one headed by Professor Davidson, a scientist who wants to establish an archaeological site, and the other by a greedy treasure hunter who wants to keep the fabled treasures of the city for himself. An agent of a foreign power also wants to establish a secret airbase there, so he stirs up the natives against The Phantom, who has been able to get them to stay peaceful so far. When The Phantom is murdered, his son takes his place and sets out to restore peace to the jungle and stop the agents' and the treasure hunters' nefarious plans.

Directed by B. Reeves Eason - With Tom Tyler, Jeanne Bates, Kenneth MacDonald, Ace the Wonder Dog

The Green Hornet Strikes Again!(1940)

NR
| 4h 53min | Action, Adventure
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.

The Shadow(1940)

NR
| 4h 45min | Action, Crime
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.

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